Engineering Manager

Remote - PT

Why us?

🇪🇺 Up to 104k EUR per year, full time contractor contract
🇬🇧 Up to £90k per year, full time employment contract
🌎  Edinburgh office or fully remote working from anywhere in the UK or Europe! 
✨ Exciting products, millions of users, sold to global brands
💻 Working with the latest hardware, tech stack and tools
🏋️‍♀️ Access to benefits (country dependent 🌎 )

Summary

Storyteller is a platform that allows brands to integrate Stories functionality into their apps and websites. The platform is in use by multiple global brands serving millions of users. Check us out on our website or on ProductHunt!

We’re now on the lookout for a hands-on Engineering Manager to take the lead with our talented Web technical team, with ultimate responsibility for our Storyteller Web SDK.  Strategic thinking and strong business acumen are also essential in this role. If you are comfortable leading from the front, willing to actively contribute to code delivery, have an entrepreneurial mindset, are action and solution-orientated and driven to do the right thing for our customers then we’d like to talk! 

About us

Storyteller is a high growth B2B SaaS platform, which allows companies to integrate Stories into their owned and operated platforms. Popularized by Instagram and Snapchat, Stories are perfectly suited for boosting user engagement, audience retention, and driving advertising revenue.

For customers, building their own stories experience can take years and a lot of investment however Storyteller has solved this by allowing companies to integrate in days, not years all for one monthly cost. Our end‑to‑end platform gives companies a best‑in‑class Stories experience in days with native iOS, Android, and Web SDKs, publishing tools, analytics, and ad support.

We work with globally-recognised clients in US TV and Sports industries. Every day we produce work that is innovative, challenging, and enjoyed by millions of people!

Responsibilities

What we're looking for, and what you can expect:

  • Taking hands on responsibility for the output of our technical team, contributing yourself to code output – decision-making and real responsibility for the Web SDK would sit with you

  • Acting as a technical consultant to clients and internally

  • Discovering and implementing new technologies that yield a competitive advantage

  • Attracting, retaining and developing globally distributed developer talent, whilst sustaining an engaging and challenging environment for the team to work and develop within 

  • Supervising and mentoring developers of different seniority levels – the team encompasses developers from graduate to senior levelInfluencing and inspiring excellence in developers related to both project work and their self-development

  • Building system infrastructure to ensure functionality and efficiency

  • Building quality assurance and data protection processes

  • Providing strategic input into client/internal product decisions

  • Leading and understanding the architecture design process, which includes contributing to day-to-day software development challenges

  • Putting in place efficient and effective processes, continuously improving current practices

  • Optimizing team efficiency and continually looking for better ways of working

  • Standing up for both your team and the organization if you feel decisions are not in the best interests of either

  • Acting as a technology leader with a strong focus on quality, performance, scalability and maintainability 

Qualifications

Technical skills:

  • Significant experience working with either C# or Javascript/React to a very high standard and strong familiarity and experience across our technical stack (check out below for more)

  • Excellent HTML, CSS and JS

You'll likely be a strong candidate if:

  • You've successfully managed a globally distributed engineering team, likely in a high growth startup environment

  • You are hands on and willing to deliver code yourself alongside managing the wider team

  • Are confident in engaging with customers, understanding their requirements and packaging that into a digestible vision for the team to execute

  • Have experience managing a multi-disciplinary dev team

  • Feel comfortable tackling business problems head on, developing and implementing solutions independently

Your Working Environment

Modern Tech Stack

We use the latest tools, hardware and methodologies across our teams.  We’re always on the look-out for new ways of working and ensure everyone is setup with enough hardware firepower to excel, Windows or Mac. 

Agility & Openness for Ideas  
We actively encourage the entire team to share their ideas, with that in mind we regularly adopt and implement suggestions across the company, you’re the specialist here!   

Operating with the agility of a high growth start-up, alongside the support you can expect from a larger organisation means we encourage quick decision making and a responsive, adaptive culture. 

Outstanding People 

We believe that great teams are built by a mixture of personality, skills and a passion for what people do. We’re a small, start-up team with around 30 people onboard. 

Flexibility  

We’re a remote-first company and support 100% remote working for this role. We have flexible working hours so you can start your day anytime between 8am and 11am.  

Joining us means becoming an integral part of the whole team no matter where we’re physically working, we have a number of initiatives to create a team environment regardless of geographic location.

Payment

Outside of the UK - Up to 104,000 EUR per year (or local currency equivalent) full-time contractor contract, depending on experience and skills.

Within the UK - Up to £90,000 per year, full time employment contract

Contract

Full time contractor contract - fully remote working from anywhere in Europe! 

Full time employment contract - fully remote working from anywhere in the UK!

Recruitment Process

Firstly, you will be invited for a 30-minute pre-interview via MS Teams. We usually ask about your previous experience, future career path and motivation for changing your job, as well as provide you with more details about our projects and working in our team. 

If the interview goes well, we will invite you to a second step – a technical interview (60 minutes via MS Teams). During the meeting, Filip, Head of Mobile, will ask about your technical capabilities plus anything not covered in the pre-interview, and at the same time answers all your questions. 

The next step is a technical task. 

The last step will be the final interview (60 minutes) with Filip and Dave, our CTO – it’s a mix of technical and culture-fit questions. 

And that’s it!