Developer Platform Engineering Manager

The Role

The Developer Platform Team is part of our Platform Engineering group. Our team mission is "Make FreeAgent developers happy and super-productive". The engineering teams are our customers. We want to keep them productive & happy with all the tools they require to write and deploy great code daily.

We are responsible for the CI/CD capability and developer tooling that enables our engineers to build, test and deploy quickly with confidence.

We're looking for a team lead with a passion for CI/CD, writing Ruby code, DevOps and knowledge of AWS.

Your typical week will involve:

• Shipping features, CI/CD infrastructure, bug squashing, providing peer review.
• Working with your team helping them prioritise, build and ship the most impactful work to support our 100+ engineers
• Coaching, mentoring and developing the engineers on your team to help them grow in their career at FreeAgent
• Facilitating technical team discussions to help make decisions
• Supporting the smooth running and uptime of our CI/CD pipeline
• 1-1s with all your direct reports. We believe regular contact with your team members is essential, as is giving and receiving feedback
• Celebrating your team's achievements!

Technologies we use: AWS (many services), Terraform, Terragrunt, Atlantis, Packer, Ruby, Rspec, Rails, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Docker, Linux, CloudAMQP...

Apps we use: GitHub, Trello, G Suite, Notion, Humio, Harness...

See our StackShare for a few more examples

You

We're looking for:

• Experience of people management
• Experience running an agile software development process, shipping code to production frequently
• Solid experience of one or more web programming languages (we primarily write Ruby and JavaScript)
• Strong communication and organisation skills
• A growth mindset, open to improving yourself and learning from others
• Experience of CI/CD
• Pragmatism; being committed to getting things done while understanding tradeoffs
• A high level of self-motivation and self-awareness
• A commitment to ongoing personal development and improving your technical and soft skills. If you have the commitment, we can provide opportunities for you!