Engineering Manager

You'll be a player-coach engineering leader with a spike in technical strategy, you'll own engineering delivery for your team end-to-end - from developing exceptional engineers to solving some of our most difficult engineering problems & setting technical direction. This is a hands-on leadership role. You'll spend roughly 20% of your time contributing code and 80% leading your team, with that ratio shifting as we scale.

Responsibilities

Build, hire, and develop a high-performing engineering team; Help set technical direction and architecture decisions; Work with the engineering to tackle some of our most difficult problems; Own engineering delivery with an emphasis on velocity; Collaborate closely with Product on roadmap and prioritisation; Write code when needed so you'll stay close to the product

Requirements

8+ years software engineering experience; Track record of hiring and developing strong engineers; Strong production systems background; Proven experience in distributed systems; Experience operating autonomously in small, high-velocity environments, ideally in a startup; Experience working in a data-focused company or closely alongside a data engineering/ML team

Nice to have

Scaled an engineering team through a growth phase (5 → 20+ engineers), or from Series A to Series C; Technical depth across the stack: NodeJS, Postgres, TypeScript, Kubernetes; AI-driven or data-heavy product experience; Understanding of LLMs (e.g., RAG, prompt engineering, evals); CRM data models or workflow automation knowledge; Hands-on Data Engineering or ML Engineering experience

Benefits

24 days holiday per year + bank holidays; £450 Monthly Office Dinner Allowance; 2 weeks work-from-anywhere; Generous parental leave policy; Pension plan; Top-spec equipment and central London office; Team events and dinners; Equity; Visa sponsorship for exceptional candidates; Relocation support for those moving to London