Software Engineering Manager
Based: High Wycombe / Hybrid preferred, Remote (UK) considered
Term: Permanent, Full time
Salary: £60k - £75k dependant on experience + excellent benefits
Do you have a professional background in software development?
Are you an established leader and manager, with a desire to help others realise their potential?
Are you passionate about music and audio technology?
If you have answered yes to all the above, we would love to hear from you! As part of our continued focus on embedded software development, and our commitment to deliver high quality and reliable products to our customers, we are hiring for a new role to support our growing community of engineers working on embedded software.
The Role:
As part of maturing our organisational structure, we are introducing additional Engineering Management capacity to support our teams, specifically focused on the Novation brand. Depending on your experience level, you’ll be managing 2 or more teams in this role (2-4 engineers per team, including QA). The teams are made up of a balance of senior, mid-level, and junior engineers, who are developing embedded software to support our Novation ranges. As an Engineering Manager, you’ll play a key role in shaping best practices and fostering a strong engineering culture, while working closely with Product Owners and Technical Leads to help balance quality, flow, and product delivery.
This role will report to the Head of Software and work closely with other Engineering Managers and Leads across the department.
How you’ll support your teams:
- Manage the delivery capabilities and efficiency of your teams, including championing good engineering practices.
- Working closely with Product Management, ensure team priorities are aligned to deliver on the Product Roadmap and Engineering Strategy.
- Facilitate communication and collaboration across teams, providing context and support.
- Champion knowledge-sharing, including appropriate documentation, team demos, and communities of practice.
- Guide the development of engineers through regular feedback, 1:1s, and career development conversations.
- Shape hiring practices to attract the right talent and improve onboarding processes.
- Ensure that items in the roadmap are understood and have the appropriate resourcing and skills required.
How you’ll support your teams:
- Experience leading teams and helping them work well together.
- Experience mentoring teams in Agile and DevOps environments.
- A passion for helping others achieve ambitious goals while advocating for technical excellence.
- A background as a senior software engineer with a strong grasp of embedded software development (C/C++), working on cost-sensitive product architectures.
- A love of music and ideally audio technology!
Join us and help shape the future of our engineering practices!
About Us
Focusrite plc is a global music and audio group that develops and markets music technology products. Used by audio professionals and amateur musicians alike, our solutions facilitate the high-quality production of recorded and live sound. Our audio technology brands stand together, seeking to enrich lives through music by removing barriers to creativity – ‘we make music easy to make’.
The Focusrite Group trades under thirteen established and rapidly growing brands: Focusrite, Focusrite Pro, Novation, ADAM Audio, Sequential, Oberheim, Martin Audio, Optimal Audio, Ampify Music, Linea Research, Sonnox, OutBoard and TiMax. With a high-quality reputation and a rich heritage spanning decades, its brands are category leaders in the music-making industry.
Music technology is an enriching space to work in and we enjoy a Group-wide open-door culture which encourages innovation. This culture, combined with a passion for the inspirational solutions we create, has led to the group winning numerous accolades, including six Queen's Awards, the AIM Company of the Year Award 2021 and regular appearances in 'The Sunday Times 100 Best Small Companies to Work For’.
The Focusrite Group is dedicated to building a great place to work and as an equal opportunity employer we are committed to Diversity and Inclusion. The group mission is to cultivate an equitable culture, internally and externally, where all people feel they are welcome, safe and positively represented, because at Focusrite they truly are. Equally, we recognise the major impact that climate change is having on our world and work every day towards being industry leaders in a carbon neutral future.
Benefits include flexible/hybrid working, company pension, life insurance, private healthcare, Health Cash Plan, enhanced Maternity and Paternity pay, employee purchase scheme, group bonus scheme, company music events, offsite company parties and free lunch in the canteen. We arrange company training sessions and encourage personal development.
Skills Required
- Experience leading teams and helping them work well together.
- Experience mentoring teams in Agile and DevOps environments.
- A background as a senior software engineer with strong grasp of embedded software development (C/C++).
- A passion for helping others achieve ambitious goals while advocating for technical excellence.
- A love of music and ideally audio technology.
What We Do
We’ll be honest – Focusrite is a pretty great place to work. Incorporating both the Focusrite and Novation brands, we make music easy to make, from bedroom DJs to the greatest show on earth. Everyone who works here has an enormous passion for music: as it says on our website, sound is everything. We take that very seriously – though we have a lot of fun doing it. As the number one selling audio interface brand worldwide, Focusrite has an illustrious, prestigious, and, let’s face it, cool history. Alongside Novation, the hardware and software that we develop plays an instrumental (see what we did there?) role in shaping the sound of modern music. From amateur to pro, our goal is to help musicians to make their music the very best it can be. Music has always been an exciting thing to be involved with, and that’s not about to change. We embrace its evolution, and that means being open to new ideas. Our whole business is structured to let everyone contribute and be heard at all levels, and we make sure it’s a fun place to work. Company hack-days, external visits – we’re all about innovation, fresh thinking and great, great products. (Plus, you get a free lunch in the canteen. No really.) We work hard. We are professional. We select really, really talented people. And we absolutely love our work. So if you think you can bring something new to the mix, we’ll be looking forward to hearing from you.
