Engineering Manager

Omaze UK Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading social impact company in London is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead high-performing teams and deliver customer-focused solutions at scale. The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of experience in software engineering, exceptional leadership skills, and the ability to manage outsourced development partners. This position offers a hybrid working model and includes generous stock options, annual leave, and a learning budget within a collaborative culture.

Benefits

Generous stock options scheme

30 days annual leave PLUS Bank Holidays

Annual office closure between Christmas and New Year

Private medical and dental insurance

9% employer pension contributions

£1200 learning and development budget

Personal equipment budget

Enhanced family leave policies

Life assurance of 4x your salary

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Proven experience leading high-performing engineering teams.
• Track record of managing outsourced development teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a multidisciplinary engineering team.
• Drive delivery of high-impact features.
• Define and track SLAs for developed systems.

Skills

Leadership

Technical acumen

Communication

Mentoring

Collaboration

Tools

Typescript

AWS Lambda

DynamoDB

Job description

Role: Engineering Manager

Reports to: VP of Technology

Team: Technology

Location: Holborn London

Office Policy: 3 days in person 2 days at home each week

Contract type: Permanent full time

Who We Are

As one of the fastest growing companies in the UK weve redefined how a for-profit business makes a meaningful social impact. As the first to scale in the UK and reach profitability Omaze has also raised over 80 million for charities and created close to 40 millionaires through its life changing house and prize addition to working with beloved charities such as British Heart Foundation Comic Relief Alzheimers Research UK RSPCA weve also partnered with exceptional celebrity ambassadors including Prince William David Beckham Brian Cox and more. Omaze is building a business and culture committed to growth and creating significant social impact on a global scale.

Head to to learn more about our mission.

Why Youll Love Working at Omaze

Growth : Omaze is one of the fastest-growing companies in the world.

Impact : Join a team of world changers dedicated to creating a ripple effect of good.

Pioneering : Be part of something no one has done before.

Culture : We work hard grow together and spread joy along the way.

About The Job

Were looking for an Engineering Manager who is passionate about building high-performing empowered teams. Youll lead a group of talented engineers guide them through technical challenges and work closely with Product and Design to deliver customer-focused solutions at scale for a global business.

Youll also take the lead in managing outsourced software development partners ensuring they are aligned with our standards timelines and technical addition youll drive Engineering resource planning budget management and the definition and delivery of SLAs for internally developed systems and services.

This role requires a unique blend of technical acumen people leadership and strategic thinking. Youll play a key role in shaping our Engineering culture scaling our systems and developing the people around you.

What Youll Be Doing

• Lead mentor and support a multidisciplinary engineering team including software engineers QA SRE security and mobile engineers with a focus on performance development and collaboration
• Drive the delivery of high-impact features from planning through to production
• Deliver scalable solutions for a global customer base
• Own relationships with outsourced development teams ensuring alignment effective collaboration and consistent output
• Plan and manage team capacity headcount and budget to support business goals
• Define track and meet SLAs for internally developed systems and services
• Foster a collaborative inclusive and growth-oriented environment
• Partner with Product Design and other relevant stakeholders to shape the roadmap
• Develop our Engineering processes and practices as we scale including setting code quality standards and ensuring adherence to engineering excellence
• Contribute to hiring onboarding and ongoing career development of engineers
• Balance strategic technical guidance with people leadership you wont be hands-on every day but youll stay close to the technology

About You

Organisational & People Leadership

• Proven experience leading high-performing engineering teams ideally across multiple disciplines (e.g. software engineering QA SRE security or mobile) in a fast-paced environment
• A track record of managing and partnering with outsourced or offshore software development teams
• Experience with engineering resource planning budgeting and aligning team structure with business needs
• Skilled at giving feedback coaching and unblocking teams
• Able to lead through ambiguity and bring structure when needed
• Effective communicator both upward and across functions with the ability to simplify complex ideas and build trust
• Engage engineers to support a culture of collaboration and inclusion through mentorship respectful code review and dedication to quality.
• You are passionate about voicing your opinions and can be humble in receiving feedback
• Bonus : Experience in a scale-up environment or having led teams through growth phase

Technical Skills & Experience

• 10 years of professional software engineering experience.
• A strong technical foundation you can understand architecture decisions and unblock teams without being hands-on daily
• Experience delivering scalable reliable systems for global user bases
• Comfortable operating in environments subject to regulatory compliance and risk-based security requirements
• Experience designing and building products or major features from concept to launch.
• Experience with our client-side tech stack : Typescript SASS Web Components Shopify
• Experience with our server-side tech stack : Typescript DynamoDB AWS Lambda API Gateway and Serverless Framework.

We actively seek out diversity of thought and experience to drive innovation. We welcome all backgrounds identities and perspectives and work hard to ensure that every Omaze employee can bring their authentic self to work at all times.

Whats In It For You

• Generous stock options scheme
• 30 days annual leave PLUS Bank Holidays
• Annual office closure between Christmas Day and New Years Day
• Private medical and dental insurance
• 9% employer pension contributions when you contribute at least 2%
• 1200 learning and development budget each year to use on training courses conferences and professional memberships
• Personal equipment budget to work from home
• Enhanced family leave policies
• Life assurance of 4x your salary

Our hiring process

Our hiring process may vary between roles particularly for technical roles where we may incorporate a technical skills / based interview but as standard youll have :

• Screening call with one of our in-house Talent Leads
• First stage interview with the Hiring Manager
• On-site second stage interview with key stakeholders this could be other managers peers or Senior team members.
• Final stage interview with one of our Execs.

On average our hiring process takes around 2-3 weeks after your initial screening call.

We hire on a rolling basis so well close the role when we either a) have enough applications to process or b) have hired someone exceptional to fill the position. Youll hear from us throughout the process but if youve got any questions please reach out to us at

Key Skills

• Hospitality Experience
• Go
• Management Experience
• React
• Redux
• Node.js
• AWS
• Mechanical Engineering
• Team Management
• Leadership Experience
• Mentoring
• Distributed Systems

Employment Type: Full-Time

Experience: years

Vacancy: 1