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Senior Engineering Manager – Distributed Systems / Architecture - Remote-first | Up to £180,000 + 15% bonus + VSOPS
We’re partnered with a highly profitable business operating at the forefront of AI, with around 400 employees and a valuation of close to $10bn. Established for over 5 years, the company has built a highly technical engineering organisation focused on solving complex problems around scale, performance and distributed systems. They’ve also recently been named one of the top 50 companies on the pre-IPO watchlist, making this a particularly interesting time to join.
The Role
This is a Senior Engineering Manager position for someone who wants to combine strong people leadership with genuine technical ownership. You’ll initially lead a team of circa 8 engineers, with the team expected to grow as the business continues to scale.
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Around 30% of the role will remain focused on technical design and architecture. While this isn’t a hands-on coding position, you’ll be expected to be highly competent technically and comfortable getting into the detail of system design, architecture, technical trade-offs and engineering decisions.
You’ll work closely with senior engineers and technical stakeholders to shape the architecture and direction of the team, while also owning the people, delivery and organisational side of the function.
The wider engineering organisation works with high-throughput, distributed systems. Golang is the preferred language, although experience with Java or Python will also be considered.
Skills:
- 15+ years’ experience within software engineering
- 3+ years’ experience managing and developing engineering teams
- Proven ability to build, lead and grow high-performing engineering teams
- Strong technical background with significant experience in system design and architecture
- Highly competent discussing and challenging architectural decisions, technical tradeoffs and system design
- Experience working with distributed systems, high-throughput environments or systems operating at significant scale
- Golang preferred, although experience with Java or Python will be considered
- Able to remain technically credible without needing to be hands-on coding day-to-day
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
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Package
- Up to £180,000 base salary
- 15% annual bonus
- VSOPS
- Remote-first working
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