Marcus Mitchell
Engineering Manager at Soho House & Co
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMarcus Mitchell is an engineering manager with 16 years of hands-on software experience and a builder’s mindset, currently leading engineering culture and career development at Soho House & Co from Stony Stratford. He progressed internally from senior developer to lead developer and then created the company’s first Engineering Manager role, driving mentoring programs and entry-level hiring alongside Academy partnerships. Technically grounded in backend systems, Marcus helped design 50+ microservices for web and mobile products and led the in-house FinTech House Pay integration that stitched multiple platforms and third parties. He combines practical engineering (Ruby/Rails, microservices, AWS) with people-first leadership, emphasizing onboarding, interviewing strategy, and skill-to-project fit. Notably, he seeded a successful mentoring pipeline for junior hires, turning hiring into a strategic lever for long-term capability building.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
3 A Levels, 10 GCSE, Electronics, Theatre, English Language, 3 A Levels, 10 GCSE, Electronics, Theatre, English Language at Bedford SchoolBSc, Electronic Imaging and Media Communications, BSc, Electronic Imaging and Media Communications at University of Bradford
Github Skills (48)
bus9
rake8
api8
memcached8
dispatcher7
capistrano7
string-matching7
matching7
string-comparison7
flags7
rollout7
unleash7
flipper6
restful6
rabbitmq6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
marcusleemitchell/trello_git_branch
May 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch, 1 tag in 4 months
marcusleemitchell/retro-calculator
May 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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