Engineering Manager jobs in United Kingdom
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Senior Engineering Manager
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Senior Engineering Manager
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Engineering Manager
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Senior Engineering Manager, Platform
GiveDirectly
Posted: 10/8/2026Cloud
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Demonstrates strong leadership in technical delivery, ensuring timely project completion while maintaining high standards for code quality and team performance. Proficient in managing engineering teams, fostering accountability, and utilizing modern technologies to enhance production efficiency.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Technical Delivery LeadershipNext.js, React, TypeScriptLaravel, PHPCI/CD and AWS ManagementPerformance Management
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesAWSJavaScriptLaravelNext.jsPHPReactTypeScript
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Own the engineering team's technical delivery and ensure committed work lands on time and to client standards
- Run the engineering team day to day and track progress across all work
- Size work with the Product Owner and Delivery Manager before commitment
- Partner with the Delivery Manager on dependencies, technical risk and team capacity
- Raise slippage early with recovery plans
- Own delivery metrics and report them weekly to the CTO and CEO
- Embed build-it, run-it, own-it practices across the team
- Own production across both platforms and the on-call rota
- Set, publish and enforce standards for code review, testing and releases, including AI-written code
- Hire, onboard and performance-manage engineers
- Write code for 20–30% of working time
- Run planning, stand-ups, reviews and retrospectives
- Report to the CTO and work directly with the CEO on delivery
Requirements
What you’ll need- At least four years leading software engineers in a technical delivery capacity
- Experience leading a team of five to ten engineers on a live SaaS product
- Record of shipping committed work to agreed dates
- Experience improving an underperforming team
- Experience building estimates using decomposition, ranges, confidence and contingency
- Experience measuring and improving estimate accuracy
- Current, hands-on skill with Next.js, React and TypeScript
- Current, hands-on skill with Laravel and PHP
- Experience using AI-first tools such as Claude Code
- Comfortable reading code, reviewing pull requests and challenging estimates or designs on technical merits
- Working understanding of CI/CD, environments, releases and running production on AWS
- Experience handling performance conversations and formal performance processes
- Ability to build team accountability without micromanaging
- Experience making engineers responsible for production support
- Must be eligible to work in the UK without requiring sponsorship
- Must hold a valid visa or UK residency
- Must be currently based in the UK
- Prepared to undergo high-level security clearance
- Nice to have: regulated enterprise client experience, legacy platform modernisation or migration, CodeIgniter or other legacy PHP frameworks, event technology, ISO 27001 or client security review experience
Benefits
Comp & perks- Hybrid, three days a week in the Farringdon office
- A bonus tied to delivery results
- Company pension scheme
- Gym membership
- Multiple progression routes: leadership, product or deep technical
- Serious investment in AI tooling and training
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Hard Skills
Technical DeliveryCode ReviewEstimation TechniquesProduction SupportAI-First Tools
Soft Skills
Team AccountabilityPerformance ConversationsCollaboration
Tools & Technologies
Next.jsReactTypeScriptLaravelPHPAWSCI/CD
Certifications & Qualifications
High-Level Security ClearanceValid Visa or UK Residency
Industry Keywords
SaaS ProductRegulated Enterprise Client ExperienceISO 27001Legacy Platform ModernisationClient Security Review
