Dex
Engineering Manager (up to £160k)
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The role
This company is building the Agentic Operating System for procurement. Not just adding AI as a feature, but designing a core product where humans and AI agents manage every supplier, end-to-end. They've secured significant funding from leading VCs, scaled ARR rapidly to over $20M, and serve 180+ enterprise customers.
You'll join a rapidly scaling engineering team, growing from 45 to 70 engineers this year, as one of two new Engineering Managers. This isn't a hands-off, purely process-driven role. It's people-first, but demands deep technical credibility. You'll spend your first month immersed in the codebase, then take ownership of 2-3 cross-functional teams (12-20 engineers), driving people development, delivery, and quality across critical domains like the workflow engine or the agentic layer itself.
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The work
- Own the people development, delivery, and quality for 2-3 cross-functional product teams, scaling from 12 to 20 engineers.
- Spend your initial month deep in the codebase, understanding the architecture and systems before taking on direct team management.
- Drive technical strategy and execution across critical domains like the core workflow engine, supplier risk, or the agentic automation layer.
- Partner closely with Product and Team Leads to define roadmaps, unblock challenges, and ensure high-quality, impactful delivery.
- Calibrate engineering quality and architectural decisions directly, rather than simply escalating issues.
What You Bring
- 8+ years in software engineering, with 3+ years as an Engineering Manager at a Series A or later SaaS company.
- Proven experience leading 2+ engineering teams concurrently, with a track record of hiring, coaching, and developing engineers.
- A strong full-stack IC background, ideally with TypeScript, and a willingness to dive into an unfamiliar codebase for your first month.
- Ability to drive architectural discussions, calibrate engineering quality, and connect technical decisions directly to customer and commercial outcomes.
- Experience navigating rapid engineering team growth (e.g., 30 to 100 engineers), demonstrating impact on velocity and quality beyond just process.
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