Engineering

United Kingdom

London

Access to comprehensive health plan coverage that is available to our people and their dependants

Contribution towards our employees’ retirement planning

Financial protection benefits

Generous family friendly leave policies that promote and prioritize employees’ well-being

Geographically distributed, hybrid and remote workforce

A connected team culture which promotes social well-being

Medium

Integrity

Togetherness

Longevity

Agility

Novata is a public benefit corporation created by a unique consortium of The Ford Foundation, Omidyar Network, S&P Global and Hamilton Lane - global leaders in social justice, financial data, and private markets.

Our mission is to empower the private markets to achieve a more sustainable and inclusive form of capitalism.

We’re building a platform to address the private markets' critical and immediate need for simple, yet powerful tools to reduce the burden of collecting, managing, and benchmarking ESG data.

Technology

Novata

An ESG platform built to empower private companies and investors to collect, analyze, benchmark & report relevant data.

About the roleWe’re looking for a hands-on Engineering Manager to join a newly formed squad with the goal of developing a new sustainability reporting platform that meets the needs of what we call ‘private companies’. This is very much a ‘startup within a startup’ squad, hence you’d be a key driver in helping the organization expand into a new market segment. There is still a lot of uncertainty around what the real customer and user value is, so you’ll need to have an experimental, iterative mindset where through rapid delivery you’ll work to uncover what our customers really need.The squad is still forming and for now, is composed of a Product Manager and another Engineer, but success dependent could grow quickly in the future. You’ll need to orient yourself quickly with this new business domain, work collaboratively with various stakeholders, and bring to bear your problem-solving skills to deliver an MVP that will help Novata establish a foothold in this emerging market.This role is ideal for an engineering manager who likes to get hands-on with products in their infancy. You’ll get to work across the full stack, building frontend components, creating API endpoints, and stitching together cloud services to deliver real end-user value, fast. In addition, you’ll also be responsible for managing the workstream and backlog to ensure things flow effectively and efficiently through the squad, alongside some people management duties helping guide and coach your reports to unlock their potential.You will spend your timeApplying your skills, knowledge, and experience to develop and maintain a new sustainability reporting platform targeting individual companies.Leading the members of your squad, supporting them in breaking problems down into value-focused deliverables.Ensuring the squad maintains a high level of performance, whilst fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.Contributing to our guilds, sharing what you’ve learned, and ensuring that knowledge and best practices are socialized throughout the collective.Line managing your reports, setting clear goals and objectives, and managing individuals' performance through coaching and continuous feedback.Fulfill additional duties as requested.We use and teachTypeScript, React and Node.js for our platformPostgres, Metabase and Snowflake for data storageGitHub for source control and Jira for change managementDocker to package our services into containersHarness, GitHub and Argo CD for CI/CDDataDog for monitoring and observabilityAWS for infrastructure, specifically EKS, RDS and S3Terragrunt and Terraform for infrastructure orchestrationRequirementsYou should apply if8 or more years of demonstrable experience developing testable, modular, and extensible code that covers that entire web application stack using TypeScript/JavaScript, React, and Node.js.1-3 years of experience building and leading high-performance engineering squads.You are interested in (or have recently moved into) an eng management role.You have experience leading teams in the successful delivery of high-impact initiatives.You have a product mindset, are passionate about customer outcomes, and want to make data-informed decisions.You have a start-up mentality and are responsible, energetic, ambitious, and adaptable.You are hands-on and able to jump in on technical challenges to support your team.You aren’t afraid to make decisions, have good judgment, and act with purpose and intention to progress our mission.You like to approach problem-solving pragmatically and appreciate the importance of building the right thing vs building the thing right.You have a keen attention to detail, you care about the operational aspects of software delivery.

About the roleWe’re looking for a hands-on Engineering Manager to join a newly formed squad with the goal of developing a new sustainability reporting platform that meets the needs of what we call ‘private companies’. This is very much a ‘startup within a startup’ squad, hence you’d be a key driver in helping the organization expand into a new market segment. There is still a lot of uncertainty around what the real customer and user value is, so you’ll need to have an experimental, iterative mindset where through rapid delivery you’ll work to uncover what our customers really need.The squad is still forming and for now, is composed of a Product Manager and another Engineer, but success dependent could grow quickly in the future. You’ll need to orient yourself quickly with this new business domain, work collaboratively with various stakeholders, and bring to bear your problem-solving skills to deliver an MVP that will help Novata establish a foothold in this emerging market.This role is ideal for an engineering manager who likes to get hands-on with products in their infancy. You’ll get to work across the full stack, building frontend components, creating API endpoints, and stitching together cloud services to deliver real end-user value, fast. In addition, you’ll also be responsible for managing the workstream and backlog to ensure things flow effectively and efficiently through the squad, alongside some people management duties helping guide and coach your reports to unlock their potential.You will spend your timeApplying your skills, knowledge, and experience to develop and maintain a new sustainability reporting platform targeting individual companies.Leading the members of your squad, supporting them in breaking problems down into value-focused deliverables.Ensuring the squad maintains a high level of performance, whilst fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.Contributing to our guilds, sharing what you’ve learned, and ensuring that knowledge and best practices are socialized throughout the collective.Line managing your reports, setting clear goals and objectives, and managing individuals' performance through coaching and continuous feedback.Fulfill additional duties as requested.We use and teachTypeScript, React and Node.js for our platformPostgres, Metabase and Snowflake for data storageGitHub for source control and Jira for change managementDocker to package our services into containersHarness, GitHub and Argo CD for CI/CDDataDog for monitoring and observabilityAWS for infrastructure, specifically EKS, RDS and S3Terragrunt and Terraform for infrastructure orchestrationRequirementsYou should apply if8 or more years of demonstrable experience developing testable, modular, and extensible code that covers that entire web application stack using TypeScript/JavaScript, React, and Node.js.1-3 years of experience building and leading high-performance engineering squads.You are interested in (or have recently moved into) an eng management role.You have experience leading teams in the successful delivery of high-impact initiatives.You have a product mindset, are passionate about customer outcomes, and want to make data-informed decisions.You have a start-up mentality and are responsible, energetic, ambitious, and adaptable.You are hands-on and able to jump in on technical challenges to support your team.You aren’t afraid to make decisions, have good judgment, and act with purpose and intention to progress our mission.You like to approach problem-solving pragmatically and appreciate the importance of building the right thing vs building the thing right.You have a keen attention to detail, you care about the operational aspects of software delivery.