Engineering Manager
The Role
As an Engineering Manager at Your Parking Space (YPS), you will be a strategic leader responsible for the growth, health, and output of our engineering organization. This is a manager of managers role; you will oversee multiple squads, mentoring Lead Engineers and ensuring that our technical roadmap aligns with high-level business objectives.
You will be joining at a critical juncture as we modernize our core platform into a scalable, service-oriented architecture while maintaining the stability of our revenue-generating systems. You are expected to balance people leadership with high-level technical oversight of our PHP/Laravel and AWS ecosystem. This is an opportunity to take ownership of a significant technical transformation. You won't just be managing "maintenance"; you will be the driving force behind the next evolution of our commercial parking platform.
How to make an impact
Leadership & Mentorship: Lead and coach multiple engineering teams and their respective leads. Foster a culture of accountability, innovation, and pragmatic problem-solving.
Strategic Modernization: Partner with the Head of Engineering/CTO to transition systems into a modern, observable microservices architecture.
Operational Excellence: Improve system observability and automated reporting to transition the team from a reactive to a proactive state.
Resource & Capacity Planning: Manage engineering headcount and allocate resources effectively across competing priorities, such as technical debt reduction vs. new commercial feature delivery.
Stakeholder Alignment: Collaborate with Product, Sales, Marketing and Finance to ensure technical deliverables meet commercial requirements and generate immediate business value.
Delivery Management: Oversee timeboxed discovery phases and ensure the "Definition of Done" is met for complex migrations, such as payment integrations or platform sunsets.
About you
Core Stack: Extensive experience with PHP and Laravel within a high-traffic, commercial environment.
Cloud Infrastructure: Deep understanding of AWS (multiple accounts, environments, and service decoupling).
Architecture: Proven track record of managing Microservices architectures and the decoupling of monolithic systems.
Tools & Methodologies: Experience with CI/CD pipelines, ETL pipelines for financial reporting, and advanced observability tools.
Your background
Experience: 5+ years in a senior engineering leadership role, specifically managing other managers or multiple cross-disciplinary squads.
Pragmatism: Ability to make "pragmatic" decisions that balance long-term technical health with the immediate revenue needs of a growing business.
Communication: Exceptional ability to translate complex technical challenges into clear business risks and opportunities for the Senior Leadership Team (SLT).
Resilience: Comfortable leading teams through organizational pivots, project sunsets, and high-pressure stability issues.
We’ve signed up to an ambitious journey. Join us!
As Arrive, we guide customers and communities towards brighter futures and more livable cities, it isn’t a challenge just anyone could take on. Luckily, we have something to help us make it happen. Our people and our values. We Arrive Curious, Focused and Together. Just as our entire brand is inspired by the North Star, the shining light leading travelers to their destinations since time began, our values guide us. They help us be at our best. For our customers. For the cities and communities we serve. For ourselves. As a global team, we are transforming urban mobility. Let’s grow better, together.
- Department
- Technology
- Locations
- London, United Kingdom
- Remote status
- Hybrid
- Employment type
- Full-time
About Arrive
Arrive, including brands like EasyPark, Flowbird, RingGo, ParkMobile and Parkopedia, is a leading global mobility platform. Present in over 90 countries and 20,000 cities, the company helps people and decision-makers make smarter decisions about urban mobility and ease the experience of travel worldwide. Arrive delivers a unique combination of the core ingredients to make cities more livable: from smart payments and optimized car parks to data-driven traffic reduction and support for reinvestment in public transport and green space. It’s about more than function, it’s about saving time and simplifying the experience of travel for everyone. Travel is more than a journey, it’s how you Arrive.
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