Engineering Manager - Partner Proposition

We work together. Your team and the people you will work with… You’ll work closely with a small team of engineers, supporting both the technical direction and the people behind it. This role blends hands-on involvement with leadership, helping guide delivery while staying connected to the details when needed. You’ll collaborate with product manager to shape priorities, balance new work with ongoing improvements, and keep the team focused and supported. You’ll also connect with other leaders across the organisation to share practices and help strengthen our engineering culture as we grow. We deliver progress. What you’ll do and how you will make an impact. As an Engineering Manager at UW you create clarity, consistency, and momentum in your squad. You set direction, ensure high standards in both delivery and quality, and balance short-term goals with long-term sustainability. You invest in people through coaching, feedback, and development, while fostering a positive team culture. You communicate effectively across levels, manage complexity, and continuously grow as a leader in order to enable your teams to do their best work.

Responsibilities

Technical Mastery: Take responsibility for the technical decisions the squad makes and ensure they align with company and technical strategy; Impact: Take an integral role in defining team goals and ensuring proposed work is aligned with them; Operational Excellence: Identify and put in place practices needed to ensure security and operational service level objectives (SLOs) are met; Planning & Delivery: Work with the Product Manager and team to set objectives and key results (OKRs) that align with company goals; People & Coaching: Ensure the squad is staffed with the technical skillsets to deliver objectives, developing skills within team members and/or hiring as needed; Business & Domain knowledge: Understand and communicate company, department, and pillar strategy and goals to your squad; Leadership & Culture: Teach our culture to others and foster a healthy dynamic within your team

Requirements

Knowledge of core tech stack (gRPC, GraphQL, React, Kafka, Docker & Kubernetes); Experience taking responsibility for technical decisions and aligning them with strategy; Clear understanding of engineering practices and ability to identify improvements; Experience defining team goals and driving prioritisation to achieve them; Ability to work with Product Managers to set OKRs aligned with company goals; Ability to co-lead annual and quarterly planning; Experience identifying risks early and mitigating them; Experience identifying practices for security and SLOs; Ability to drive operational excellence and lead metrics reviews; Experience managing a team of engineers; Proven ability to onboard, train, develop, and coach reports, as well as participating in performance calibration and promotion reviews; Intermediate awareness of customer and market insights; Ability to communicate strategy to the squad; Experience fostering a healthy team dynamic and resolving interpersonal conflicts; Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional colleagues

Nice to have

Experience with Go; Experience (bonus) with core tech stack (gRPC, GraphQL, React, Kafka, Docker & Kubernetes)

Benefits

Competitive salary benchmarked against industry; Performance bonus: annual discretionary bonus ranging from 15-40%; Flexible working: remote-first; Work-life balance: optional four-day working week (90% pay for 90% impact); Work from anywhere: work abroad up to three weeks twice every tax year; Holiday: 25 days plus bank holidays (increasing with tenure), option to trade up to five days each year; UW discounts: save on services and get a free Cashback Card; Future planning: matched-contribution pension scheme and life assurance (up to 4x salary); Family first: policies designed to help you and your family thrive; Flexible benefits: allowance for private health insurance, dental insurance, or gym membership; Sabbaticals: eight-week paid sabbatical after four years of service; Growth: dedicated learning and development budget and bi-annual promotion cycles; Inclusion: join belonging groups that help shape culture; Events: company-wide celebrations including the Great Big Get Together and Good Hearted Go-Getter Awards