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Engineering Manager

Remote, USA Full-time Posted 2025-11-03

Role Purpose

The Engineering Manager leads a cross-functional team to deliver robust, scalable software aligned with CarTrawler’s business strategy. They foster a culture of performance, accountability, and growth while ensuring delivery quality and team effectiveness.

They work closely with the Product Manager and Lead Designer to lead the squad as a cohesive trio, ensuring alignment across product, design, and engineering.

Additionally, they collaborate with Senior Engineering Managers and fellow Engineering Managers to maintain technical consistency, share best practices, and support cross-squad coordination.

Main accountabilities and key tasks:

  • Champions agile delivery by driving planning, stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, and backlog refinement, ensuring clear prioritisation and steady progress.
  • Drives estimation, effort sizing, and decomposition of epics into actionable stories, while maintaining visibility through roadmaps, tracking, and reporting.
  • Removes delivery blockers & capacity issues, manages dependencies across squads, and escalates risks proactively to safeguard delivery.
  • Owns delivery of high-quality, scalable, and well-documented software, ensuring milestones are met and launches are smooth from QA/UAT to post-go-live hypercare.
  • Responds rapidly to production issues, minimising business impact and maintaining customer trust.
  • Builds and develops high-performing teams through regular 1:1s, clear goals, coaching, feedback, and career growth, while leading hiring and team design.
  • Aligns engineering goals with cross-functional priorities, representing the team in programme-level forums and contributing to wider organisational strategy.
  • Contributes to the evolution of Agile practices, CI/CD, and architectural strategy to drive continuous improvement and long-term scalability.

    • Critical Interfaces:

  • Engineering Management for effective team leadership and collaboration across all Product & Technology departments.

  • Product Management and Product Design to align with CarTrawler's product vision and goals.
  • Portfolio and Programme Management makes clear delivery plans for important projects and initiatives.
  • The trading team, Partner Relationship Management, Supply & Insurance, and Customer Support all work together. They aim to deliver quality technical solutions.
  • External partners to assist in integrating CarTrawler software solutions.

    • Knowledge and Experience:

  • 5 years of hands-on people management experience in agile, fast-paced software environments.
  • Familiarity with the Scrum Framework is key, and having a scrum master qualification is a significant plus.
  • Proven track record guiding teams through estimation, planning, execution, and release cycles.
  • Technical credibility with the ability to write and review code when required.
  • Deep understanding of software development practices, CI/CD, and system design.
  • Experience building and scaling high-performing engineering teams.
  • Ability to mentor and develop engineers, supporting career growth and continuous improvement.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Strong time-management and delivery focus, ensuring timely and high-quality outcomes.

    • Key Competencies:

  • Technical Leadership & Credibility

    – Hands-on experience with coding, design, CI/CD, and modern engineering practices, ensuring the leader can make sound technical decisions and earn engineers’ respect.

  • Team Building & People Development – Proven ability to hire, grow, mentor, and scale high-performing teams while supporting career development and fostering continuous improvement.
  • Delivery & Execution Excellence – Strong skills in planning, estimation, and driving agile execution to deliver timely, high-quality outcomes

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