Job Description

We own and develop the MyDyson smart home app, which is at the forefront of Dyson's IoT experience. We are proud of what we have built so far; we have an App Store and Google Play rating of 4.6 and 4.3 stars respectively, we have more than 1 million active users worldwide and our IoT platform has over 3 million connected Dyson machines. We have huge ambition to grow this platform and as we connect more machines from more categories the challenge is significant.   

There are currently 8 scrum teams working on the app, located in the UK, Poland and Singapore, each with up to 8 software engineers specialised in iOS development, Android development or mobile testing/automation, plus a scrum master and product owner. We all come from a variety of educational backgrounds and experience levels; not all of us are computer science graduates. We believe that teams composed of people from diverse backgrounds are more successful and innovative.

Our teams have the autonomy to manage their own work using frameworks such as Scrum or Kanban, each honing their ways of working through regular retrospectives and knowledge sharing. We all share a commitment to creating high-quality code, and engineers choose to follow practices such as pair programming, mobbing, and test-driven development. We also regularly share our knowledge and interests peer-to-peer through our developer Communities, which have led to the adoption of new technologies and improved cross-team collaboration.

We often need to interact with people from different parts of the business, such as embedded software and the cloud teams, so we plan in 5-sprint ‘increments’, based on the best bits of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). This gives us more visibility of upcoming work while remaining responsive, and allows us to collaborate effectively with other teams within our 15,000-person organisation. 

We are on the lookout for Engineering Managers to lead teams of mobile app engineers at Dyson. Communication, collaboration, self-evaluation and a desire to improve are second nature to you, and you value good software engineering practices.  You understand the need to deliver quality, alongside the need to deliver efficiently. 

What you’ll be doing:

• Working with your team to contribute features and improvements to the MyDyson app, ensuring they are robust, scalable and covered by tests
• Conducting 1:1s with your team members, setting objectives that develop them towards their career goals, and evaluating their performance
• Instilling a test-first attitude in our developers; helping our test engineers to write better code
• Helping define and execute on a test strategy that ensures we deliver quality software
• Working with your Engineering Manager peers to ensure teams are collaborating effectively and that the right choices are made
• Working with everyone in the wider team: TPOs, Scrum Masters, cloud developers, UX/UI designers and embedded software engineers
• Working with scrum masters on team development and monitoring metrics to assess progress
• Working with TPOs and other stakeholders to assess risks and dependencies to aid decision making
• Identifying new technologies and tools to help continually improve standards