Engineering Manager

Stotles; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 95,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic technology firm in London is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a team and deliver impactful products. You will guide engineers, maintain code quality, and collaborate across teams. The ideal candidate has over 8 years in software engineering and a solid background in both front-end and back-end development. This role offers a competitive salary and a hybrid working model.

Benefits

Health cash plan covering various medical needs

Personal health and wellness allowance

25 vacation days plus bank holidays

Learning and development budget

Flexible work-from-home opportunities

Team bonding socials

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, including leading or managing engineers.
• Strong front-end and back-end development skills.
• Proven ability to deliver complex software from design to production.
• Impact-focused, using the best tools for the job.
• Eager to learn outside comfort zones.
• Detail-oriented and dependable.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support a team of engineers.
• Contribute to architecture and technical design discussions.
• Ensure high standards in code quality and performance.
• Maintain high standards in code quality and performance.
• Coach and develop your team.
• Help evolve the Stotles platform.

Skills

Software engineering experience

Technical leadership

TypeScript and React

Web application architecture

SaaS product development

Experience building SaaS or data-intensive products

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

Node.js

GraphQL

Kubernetes

Job description

Location

London Office

Employment Type

Full time

Department

Engineering

Compensation

• £95K – £120K

Hi there, We're Stotles.

Stotles is the single platform to grow your public sector business. One tool where you can: create strategy, build pipeline, track tenders and win bids.

We help public sector teams move from disconnected workflows, mountains of data, unqualified opportunities and painful collaboration to a single, end-to-end process so you can focus on what really matters. Winning more contracts.

We provide AI-enhanced decision-making at every stage of the public sector sales cycle to help you identify the best opportunities, summarise complex information, and automate tedious tasks - so you can focus on strategy and winning bids.

Don’t take our word for it! Stotles is used and trusted by public sector teams at Salesforce, Snowflake, Civica, SAP, Palo Alto, Appian, Vodafone, AtkinsRéalis, CGI, Moody’s, Genesys, Splunk, Dun & Bradstreet, UiPath, Zscaler, Zoom and more.

Learn more:

Working at Stotles

About this Role & Why We're Hiring

It's never been a more exciting time at Stotles. Here's why we're looking for you.

We’re looking for an Engineering Manager who will lead and mentor a team to deliver product impact quickly and sustainably.

You’ll set direction, support people, and stay close to the code. You’ll help engineers grow, make smart trade-offs, and ensure we’re building the right things the right way.

You’ll also play a key role in shaping how we scale our engineering culture and processes as the company grows.

Comp Range: £95,000 - £120,000 per year + equity grant depending on experience

What You'll Do

• Lead and support a small team of engineers, guiding them through prioritisation, delivery, and growth.

• Stay hands-on: contribute to architecture, code reviews, and technical design discussions.

• Partner with product and design (working closely with our CPO, Carsten and Head of Design, Phil) to turn ideas into reality; shaping scope, estimating effort, and managing delivery.

• Ensure technical excellence by maintaining high standards in code quality, performance, and reliability.

• Coach and develop your team, running 1:1s, setting growth plans, and fostering collaboration and ownership.

• Help build and evolve the Stotles platform as we scale; both the software and the team behind it.

Some examples of what you and your team might work on:

• Build the next generation of our AI features

• Improving our search and discovery experience

• Drive the evolution of our core platform

You’ll help us bring structure, speed, and clarity to an engineering organisation that’s growing fast and make sure every engineer does their best work.

Our tech stack

• Front-end: TypeScript with React

• Back-end: Node.js / TypeScript / GraphQL with Nest.js (migrating from Ruby on Rails)

• Data: PostgreSQL and OpenSearch

• Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform

• CI/CD: fully automated builds, testing, and deployments

We review our stack often — you’ll help us make the right technology choices for scale and speed. See more on our stackshare

Who We're Looking For

Skills we're looking for

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, including at least 1 year of leading or managing other engineers

• Strong technical background across both front-end and back-end development (ideally with TypeScript and React)

• Proven ability to deliver complex, high-impact software from design through to production

• Comfortable balancing hands-on development with people management and prioritisation

• Solid understanding of relational databases and web application architecture

• Experience building SaaS or data-intensive products

Qualities we're looking for

• Effective communicator and leader: You share complex ideas clearly, give thoughtful feedback, and build trust through open, honest communication both with your team and across the company.

• Systems thinker: You understand how process, people, and product fit together to drive results.

• Great at working with others, great at managing your time: As we’re a small team working on ambitious goals, effective teamwork is crucial. At the same time we expect everyone to manage their workload efficiently.

• Focused on impact, not output: Always focused on the customer impact of what we’re building, using the best tool for the job and excited to learn new things in the process.

• Ambitious curiosity: Eager to learn skills and technologies outside of your comfort zone, take ever more challenging tasks, and grow into a senior leadership role at Stotles.

• Dependability & detail-oriented: Trusted to deliver on the commitments you make to the team, from the big picture results to the nuanced details.

Next steps

1. Screening call with our Technical Talent Partner

2. Collaborative coding session with the Engineering team

3. System Design interview with our Head of Engineering

4. Meet key Product and Engineering colleagues

We're excited to meet you!

Stotles data in numbers

• 8M Procurement notices from UK & EU

• 15K UK government organisations

• 90K Government policy & strategy documents

• 180K Government contacts

• 80M Invoices published by the government bodies in UK

• 1.5M Government suppliers in UK & EU

Benefits and perks

• Transparent and competitively benchmarked salaries

• Equity dependent on experience

• A generous health cash plan (Covers dental, optical, physical therapy, consultations, etc.)

• A personal health, wellness, and development allowance of £130/month to spend on gym memberships, therapy, yoga classes... any experience that keeps your mind and body healthy.

• 25 days vacation + bank holidays

• A dedicated learning and development budget you can use for books, conferences, courses, events

• Office in Central London (Farringdon)

• A hybrid working environment with 3-5 days in office for Commercial and Ops and 1-2 days for Product and Engineering and flexible work-from-home opportunities

• A work-from-home setup budget of £400 you can use for these items: a keyboard, monitor, mouse, office chair, desk, headphones

• Monthly affectionately-termed "TeamChills™️": our in-person team-bonding socials covering anything from mini-golf, to communal taco-eating and summer picnics

Compensation Range: £95K - £120K