Engineering Manager

Role Overview

• Directly manages engineers, guides work, estimations and removes blockers. You are the first escalation point.
• Works closely with the Product Manager and Tech Lead to provide guidance and coaching to squad members on technical contributions, product roadmap and other areas.
• Provides feedback and helps engineers grow their skills.
• Ensures adherence to development methodologies.
• Standardise processes (e.g. agile ceremonies, code quality standards), but give squads autonomy for effective delivery.
• Tracks tasks, maintains project velocity, and owns squad-level deliverables against the roadmap.
• Align teams. Regular sync-ups maintain clarity.
• Align on company objectives and measurable outcomes through transparent OKRs (Objectives and Key Results).
• Proactively track engineer well-being, spot burnout, and suggest solutions. Report up to address systemic issues.
• Use metrics to track quality and delivery. Encourage retrospective analysis for continuous improvement.
• Recognise milestones and individual contributions to build morale and engagement.

Requirements

• Working in world-class product / tech organisations , either companies that have reached scale (Google, Microsoft, Uber, Booking.com) or high growth startups (Monzo, N26, Personio).
• Demonstrable ability in building and leading high-calibre engineering teams .
• Experience leading engineering teams working on Generative AI (Prompt Engineering, Fine Tuning, RAG)
• Understanding Technical Requirements with a Focus on Quality: Translate product requirements into squad plans and capacity, while also having a keen eye for ensuring high coding standards, maintainability, and the prevention of technical debt.
• People Management : Ability to motivate, provide constructive feedback, manage performance, and resolve interpersonal conflicts within a team.
• Agile Expertise: Experience implementing and iterating on Agile processes (like Scrum or Kanban) including task breakdown, estimation, and sprint planning.
• Collaborative and Empathetic: Possesses strong communication skills and builds positive relationships with engineers, focusing on understanding their motivations and work styles.
• Quality Champion: Intrinsically motivated to produce high-quality code and instills a focus on maintainability, testing, and code standards within the team.
• Results-Driven and Process-Oriented: Able to balance adherence to Agile methodologies and delivery timelines with a focus on continuous improvement. Familiar with using OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) to set measurable goals.
• Passion for Product
• You care about WHY we are building product and the value it brings to users and HOW we build product in terms of quality and standards.

Benefits

• £/€800 annual learning budget, plus two hours per week as ‘Focus Fridays’.
• Flexible work – choose a working setup that works for you, our only ask is to see you once a quarter in our UK HQ
• 25 days holiday plus your local bank holidays
• Your birthday off
• Two half day wellbeing days
• Healthcare cash plan to cover the costs of day to day healthcare
• Employee Assistance Plan 24/7 365 support
• Income Protection (75%) and life assurance (4x salary)
• Pension scheme
• Enhanced parental leave package
• 26 weeks fully paid maternity leave and 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave
• £50 monthly allowance to spend on whatever takes your fancy, your very own Benifex card will be topped up at the start of each month!