Engineering Manager

Longshot Systems

. Own the people and process side of an engineering organisation of roughly 30–50 people.

Posted 10/10/2026full-timeLondon • United KingdomMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

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Demonstrates expertise in engineering management, focusing on hiring processes, performance reviews, and team development within a mid-sized engineering organization. Proficient in improving engineering processes and standards while managing cloud spend and security protocols.

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Engineering ManagementHiring Process OwnershipPerformance Review FacilitationProcess ImprovementCloud Spend Management

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Hard Skills

Software Engineering BackgroundPerformance Review CyclesCandidate EvaluationProcess ImprovementLLM-Based Tooling ImplementationCloud Spend ManagementSecurity Process Management

Soft Skills

CollaborationCommunicationLeadership

Tools & Technologies

LLM-Based Developer ToolingSaaS Management

Industry Keywords

Engineering OrganizationTechnical OnboardingHiring Funnel EfficiencyMaintenance and Development Balance

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the people and process side of an engineering organisation of roughly 30–50 people.
Own engineering hiring end to end, including funnel design, interview processes, candidate evaluation and role-specific interviews.
Work with the Head of Talent to improve hiring-funnel efficiency and conduct substantial interviewing.
Own twice-yearly review cycles, the progression framework and calibration across teams.
Run review conversations, make compensation recommendations and decide promotions jointly with the CTO.
Identify training and conference opportunities for engineers.
Diagnose delivery slowdowns and process issues without choosing or prioritising projects.
Monitor the balance between maintenance and development work and provide metrics and reporting.
Improve engineering processes and standards as the organisation grows.
Champion developer experience and adoption of LLM-based tooling through hands-on evaluation.
Own cloud spend, SaaS estate, licensing, security processes, starter/leaver access management and company-wide technical onboarding.
Run a regular forum with the CTO and tech leads covering hiring pipeline, attrition risk, maintenance/development balance and standards drift.
Collaborate with tech leads, whose technical judgment prevails on architecture, technical direction and code-level decisions.

Requirements

What you’ll need

A software engineering background, with the technical credibility to work alongside strong senior ICs.
Proven experience as a people manager of engineers, including running review cycles, progression and calibration.
A track record of owning engineering hiring at volume, not just participating, both before and since LLMs changed how we assess candidates.
Experience in engineering organisations of around 30–50 people.
Comfortable working without enterprise scaffolding: no dedicated HR, IT or procurement teams to lean on.
Long experience improving processes, standards and delivery in high-performing engineering teams.
Fluent written and spoken English.
Hands-on experience rolling out LLM-based developer tooling across a team and measuring its impact (nice to have).
Experience managing cloud spend, SaaS estates and licensing (nice to have).
Experience owning security processes such as starter and leaver access management (nice to have).

Benefits

Comp & perks

Participation in the uncapped company bonus scheme
10% matched pension contributions
Private healthcare insurance
Long term illness insurance
Gym membership
Flexible working
Hybrid working with Thursdays in the London (Farringdon) office and flexibility the rest of the week