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Senior Engineering Manager

Eventogy
London, GBR
Full-time
Senior · 4+ years experience
Onsite
Discovered 6 days ago
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Requirements

  • You have run engineering delivery before
  • At least four years leading software engineers in a technical delivery capacity, accountable for what shipped and when, not only for technical direction
  • You have led a team of five to ten engineers on a live SaaS product
  • A record of shipping committed work to agreed dates that you can talk through in specifics: what was promised, what landed, and what you did when it went wrong
  • You have taken an underperforming team up a level, and can say exactly what you changed and how
  • You estimate and plan seriously
  • You have built estimates other people relied on, and you can explain your method: decomposition, ranges, confidence and contingency
  • You measure how accurate your estimates turn out to be, and you improve them
  • You tell stakeholders bad news early, with a plan attached
  • You are hands-on in our stack
  • Current, hands-on skill with Next.js, React and TypeScript, and with Laravel and PHP. You can pick up a ticket yourself, not just review one
  • You already work AI-first: tools such as Claude Code are part of how you build every day, and you know where they help and where they hurt
  • Comfortable reading code, reviewing pull requests and challenging an estimate or a design on its technical merits
  • A working understanding of CI/CD, environments, releases and running production on AWS
  • You lead people well
  • Direct, fair and comfortable having hard conversations about performance
  • You have run formal performance processes properly, from the first conversation to the outcome
  • You build accountability in a team without micromanaging it
  • You have made engineers responsible for their work in production, not just for getting it merged, and can explain how you made that stick
  • Nice to have
  • Experience with regulated enterprise clients, such as banks or law firms
  • Modernising or migrating a legacy platform while still shipping on it
  • CodeIgniter or other legacy PHP frameworks
  • Event technology
  • Working under ISO 27001 or through client security reviews
  • This probably is not for you if
  • You see the job as running ceremonies and reporting status
  • You consider delivery someone else's problem once the estimate is agreed
  • You think production support belongs to a different team from the one that wrote the code
  • You would rather not report delivery numbers every week, good or bad
  • You want to stop writing code entirely, or to write code full time
  • You want a fixed routine and a clean finish at five o'clock whatever state the release is in
  • You are looking for a fully remote role

Benefits

  • How we work
  • A small, senior team where decisions are made quickly and you work closely with the CTO and CEO
  • Hybrid, three days a week in our Farringdon office. There is a good coffee shop next door and a food market outside
  • 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
  • How to apply
  • Apply with your CV and answer both questions below on the application form. Applications without answers to both will not be reviewed.
  • Tell us about a delivery commitment that was at risk of slipping. How did you spot it, what did you do, and how did it end?
  • How do you build an estimate you would put your name to? Walk us through a real example, and tell us how close the outcome came.
  • We are an equal opportunities employer. You must be eligible to work in the UK without requiring sponsorship, hold a valid visa or UK residency, be currently based in the UK, and be prepared to undergo high-level security clearance.
  • NO AGENCIES.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with regulated enterprise clients, such as banks or law firms
  • Modernising or migrating a legacy platform while still shipping on it
  • CodeIgniter or other legacy PHP frameworks
  • Event technology
  • Working under ISO 27001 or through client security reviews
  • This probably is not for you if
  • You see the job as running ceremonies and reporting status
  • You consider delivery someone else's problem once the estimate is agreed
  • You think production support belongs to a different team from the one that wrote the code
  • You would rather not report delivery numbers every week, good or bad
  • You want to stop writing code entirely, or to write code full time
  • You want a fixed routine and a clean finish at five o'clock whatever state the release is in
  • You are looking for a fully remote role

Responsibilities

  • Run the team day to day. Know where every piece of work stands, and challenge it when a task has taken far longer than it should
  • Size work with the Product Owner and Delivery Manager before it is committed, in enough detail to plan against and to give clients dates
  • Work hand in hand with the Delivery Manager: she owns the plan and the stakeholder conversation, you own the engineering behind it, including dependencies, technical risk and team capacity
  • Raise slippage with the Delivery Manager early and honestly, with a recovery plan attached, so she can manage expectations before a date is missed
  • Own the delivery numbers, work committed against work delivered and time from start to live, and report them weekly to the CTO and CEO
  • Make build it, run it, own it the way the team works: engineers take their work from ticket to production and stay accountable for it once it is live, with no handing problems over the wall
  • Own production across both platforms, including our original platform, and the on-call rota that supports it
  • Set, publish and enforce the engineering standard for code review, testing and releases, applied to everyone, and to AI-written code as much as human-written
  • Hire, onboard and performance-manage engineers, dealing with under-delivery directly and fairly and running formal processes properly when they are needed
  • Write code yourself for 20 to 30 percent of your time
  • Run a lean engineering rhythm: planning, stand-ups, reviews and retrospectives that earn their time
  • What success looks like at 90 days
  • Work delivered against work committed is measurably higher than when you arrived
  • A written engineering standard is published and applied to everyone
  • The quarter's committed work has landed as promised

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