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Engineering Manager
Engineering Manager
Location: London, UK (Remote-First) Salary: Up to £180,000 + 15% Bonus + Equity
About the Company
We're partnering with one of Europe's fastest-growing AI companies. With around 500 employees, unicorn status and profitability, they plan to hire more than 200 people this year. The business is scaling rapidly as it builds cutting-edge AI products used by customers worldwide.
Engineering lies at the heart of the company’s success, rooted in a strong culture of technical excellence, ownership, and innovation.
The Opportunity
We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a team of 6–7 software engineers building highly scalable, cloud-native platforms that power AI products at global scale.
This is a technical leadership role with a 70% hands-off / 30% hands-on split. Responsibilities include:
- Coaching and developing your team.
- Driving delivery across large-scale distributed systems.
- Collaborating with Product and Engineering leaders to shape technical strategy.
- Remaining technically involved via architecture, system design, and critical engineering decisions.
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Key Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of 6–7 software engineers.
- Drive delivery across large-scale distributed systems.
- Shape technical strategy and architecture alongside senior engineering leaders.
- Contribute to architecture reviews, system design, and key technical decisions.
- Champion engineering best practices, code quality, reliability, and operational excellence.
- Partner with Product, Platform, and Infrastructure teams to deliver scalable solutions.
- Play a leading role in hiring as the engineering organisation expands by over 200 roles.
- Foster a collaborative, high-performance engineering culture and support career development across the team.
About You
Ideal candidates are experienced Engineering Managers with a strong software engineering background and a passion for leading high-performing teams. You should bring:
- Experience leading software engineering teams in fast-paced technology environments.
- Strong backend engineering experience with Java, Python, or Go; Go is advantageous but not mandatory.
- A proven track record in designing and building large-scale distributed systems.
- Expertise with AWS and cloud-native architectures.
- Knowledge of microservices, scalability, resilience, and high-availability systems.
- Ability to balance people leadership with technical oversight and architectural decision-making.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and coaching skills.
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What’s on Offer
- Salary up to £180,000.
- 15% annual bonus.
- Competitive equity package.
- Remote-first work model with an expectation to attend the London office 2–3 times per quarter for planning, collaboration, and team events.
- Opportunity to join one of Europe’s leading AI unicorns during a period of rapid growth, contributing to the engineering organisation’s and its technology’s future.
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