About the job

The Role

The Software Engineering Manager at Athena is part of a squad with a well-defined mission and ships high quality code and solutions to the challenges of helping customers reach their financial in dependence more quickly.

Key Responsibilities

• Designing and implementing software solutions.
• Reviewing and collaborating with others on internal and cross-team technical proposals.
• Building out our API layer using a micro-services architecture and components on public cloud infrastructure.
• Continuously increasing efficiency and quality of your team through tooling and experimentation.
• Collaborating with everyone in an open and constructive way.
• Operating the platform products offered by the team.
• Simplifying and optimising solutions.
• Leading by expertise or influence.
• Mentoring and coaching other engineers.

About You

• You are a skilful engineer with high standards, passion for quality and a handful of years of experience under your belt.
• You are adaptable and keen to learn new languages when necessary but already competent and comfortable with at least one of the following programming languages: JavaScript/TypeScript/Node.js, Java, Kotlin or Python.
• You have great interpersonal and communication skills.
• You have experience with micro-services and single page web app design patterns.
• You can troubleshoot issues in production, help determine root causes and propose the most appropriate solution for the situation.
• You can collaborate with software engineers, product owners and other IT staff members in order to understand the goals, derive/adapt requirements and implement solutions.
• You are comfortable working in an Agile, fast-paced DevOps environment.
• You are a problem-solver and embrace the can-do.
• You are a team player.
• You are keen to learn and get comfortable with new technologies and programming languages.
• You can’t stand the sight of broken things; you go and fix them!
• You preferably have BSc in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant field.What a successful candidate looks like
• Solid computer science fundamentals: algorithms and data structures.
• Experience with public cloud providers is a plus. AWS is a plus plus.
• Strong design and analytical skills.
• Capacity to think holistically and see the bigger picture.
• Solid writing and communication skills.
• Be great, be you, play nice

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive salary & bonus scheme
• Flexible and casual working environment
• Ability to work from home
• Loads of support and training
• Fantastic team culture with monthly events

At Athena we are committed to a workplace that embraces diversity, equality, and inclusion. Athenians are free to let their own brand of freak fly.