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Core Competencies
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Demonstrates strong leadership in managing engineering teams, balancing technical direction with people management, and ensuring delivery of high-quality software products. Proficient in guiding architecture and system design while fostering a culture of continuous improvement and accountability.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Team LeadershipSoftware Engineering ExperiencePython ProgrammingAWS or Google Cloud PlatformAgile or Kanban Methodologies
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Hard Skills
Software EngineeringPythonJavaC#Distributed SystemsAPIsNoSQL TechnologiesElasticsearchReactTechnical Modernization
Soft Skills
CoachingPerformance ManagementCommunicationJudgmentSelf-Awareness
Tools & Technologies
AWSGoogle Cloud PlatformCassandraCouchDBOpenSearchContinuous Deployment Tools
Industry Keywords
Enterprise SoftwareSaaS ProductsData GovernanceLegal TechnologyDigital Preservation
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesAWSCassandraCloudDistributed SystemsElasticSearchGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaNoSQLPythonReact
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Lead the people, delivery, and technical direction of the Chronicle engineering team
- Translate business and customer needs into realistic engineering priorities and outcomes
- Work with Product to obtain roadmap priorities and break epics into individual tickets
- Review designs and code, support complex technical work, resolve blockers, and help manage production incidents
- Serve as direct line manager for assigned engineers and oversee their day-to-day employee experience
- Establish expectations, objectives, accountability, development plans, and performance reviews
- Coach and develop team members and address performance concerns in partnership with HR
- Monitor workload, engagement, wellbeing, and team dynamics
- Own delivery commitments and establish realistic plans based on priorities, capacity, dependencies, technical debt, and risk
- Facilitate planning, prioritization, and execution while maintaining clear ownership
- Communicate status, risks, trade-offs, and changes to Product and leadership
- Strengthen engineering practices for estimation, documentation, testing, code review, release management, incident response, and continuous improvement
- Guide architecture, system design, and implementation decisions
- Maintain standards for secure, reliable, maintainable, documented, testable, and observable software
- Help engineers evaluate trade-offs involving reliability, performance, scale, security, delivery speed, and maintainability
- Ensure ownership of production systems, operational issues, incidents, defects, and technical debt
- Support incident response and follow-up on significant technical or customer issues
- Participate in customer discussions and investigate complex customer escalations
- Build effective cross-functional relationships and communicate technical issues to nontechnical stakeholders
Requirements
What you’ll need- Experience leading software engineers, including coaching, feedback, and performance management
- Strong technical credibility gained through hands-on software engineering experience
- Experience delivering enterprise software or complex SaaS products
- Strong experience with Python, or deep experience with Java or C# combined
- Experience with distributed systems, large data volumes, concurrency, scaling, APIs, and complex technical problems
- Experience with AWS or Google Cloud Platform
- Experience with Agile or Kanban delivery, continuous deployment, and modern deployment tools
- Sound judgment, self-awareness, and a consistent approach to accountability and employee support
- Ability to balance people leadership, technical leadership, client needs, and delivery expectations
- Experience with NoSQL technologies such as Cassandra or CouchDB
- Experience with Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, or other search technologies
- Experience with React or a similar frontend framework
- Experience supporting security, compliance, or data-governance products
- Experience leading teams through technical modernization, operational improvement, or scaling challenges
- Experience working with legal technology, enterprise data, or digital preservation systems
Benefits
Comp & perks- Full-Time UK Employee
- Remote work
- Time-off requests and employee wellbeing support
- Career development, individual growth goals, and stretch opportunities
- Performance reviews and constructive feedback
- Inclusive and respectful work environment
- Support across different countries, cultures, and time zones
