Engineering Manager

Omnea; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Diverse and inclusive culture

Opportunity for growth

Flexible working hours

Job summary

A leading tech startup in Greater London is seeking an ambitious Engineering Manager to join its leadership team. In this role, you'll lead multiple engineering teams, ensuring high-quality solutions in a rapidly growing environment. You will implement best practices and mentor engineers, while collaborating closely with Product and Design to drive impactful outcomes. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in software engineering and team management, particularly in dynamic settings. Join us to make a significant impact in a fast-paced company.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years managing teams.
• Experience in fast-moving, ambiguous environments, especially during growth.
• Strong technical background, deep understanding of distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple engineering teams, fostering a culture of excellence.
• Drive engineering best practices and quality standards.
• Collaborate with Product and Design for optimal outcomes.

Skills

Leadership

Technical excellence

Team mentoring

Collaboration

Job description

Our Mission

At Omnea, we’re reinventing how enterprise businesses operate, starting with the most painful parts: procurement – where a single purchase can drag on for months, trigger 50+ emails, and pull in Finance, Legal, Security, and IT just to get something approved.

We’ve raised $75M from Khosla Ventures, Insight Partners, and Accel to change that. Our AI-native platform connects every person, step, and system so buying is fast, safe, and efficient – one place to request, automated approvals and renewals, real‑time supplier risk, and complete spend visibility.

It's a $7B+ untapped market, and our traction reflects the scale of the opportunity: we’ve 10x’d ARR to double‑digit millions in 18 months and are trusted by global enterprises like Spotify, MongoDB, Monzo, and Albertsons. We’re now the 4th fastest growing startup in Europe.

Our team previously scaled Tessian (cybersecurity tech, backed by Sequoia, Balderton, Accel, acquired post‑Series C), and our team includes ex‑founders operators who’ve grown unicorns, shipped world‑class products, and executed at the highest levels. You’ll work alongside leaders like Ben, Abs, Sabrina, and Rebe.

Find out more about the team and life at Omnea here.

What we're looking for

We're looking for an ambitious and talented Engineering Manager to join Omnea, the UK's #1 Startup in 2026, as part of our Engineering leadership team.

As we grow from tens to hundreds of enterprise customers and through 10x revenue growth in the next 2‑3 years, you'll play a crucial role in building and leading the best Engineering function in its category. You'll be responsible for multiple teams, ensuring we ship high‑quality solutions while maintaining the velocity a fast‑growing environment demands. You'll operate with high autonomy, collaborating closely with other EMs, Team Leads, and Product to drive real impact.

What you’ll do

Build and lead high‑performing teams:

• Lead multiple engineering teams, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement

• Drive engineering best practices, quality standards, and high performance

• Mentor and develop engineers, helping them grow their careers and impact

• Collaborate with Product, Design, Team Leads and other key stakeholders on team structures and deliveries to ensure optimal outcomes

Drive technical excellence:

• Implement and refine engineering processes that scale

• Facilitate architectural decisions that impact multiple teams

• Champion quality improvements across teams while maintaining high velocity

• Ensure robust monitoring, observability, and incident response processes

Shape technical product strategy:

• Partner with Product leadership to define and execute our technical roadmap

• Balance technical debt, feature development, and system reliability with other deliverables

• Ensure customer feedback drives technical priorities

Teams and products you might end up working on:

• Accounting and Goods Receipting – ensuring procurement and finance teams have the right information and tools to operate accurately, automatically, and at scale

• Insights and Reporting – deep, complex custom visualisations bringing together AI and data to surface meaningful insights and context across the platform

• Sourcing – building the tools that find the right suppliers, shape the right deals, and make sure the best option is already in play before a request is even created

• Workflow Orchestration – the configurable backbone of our systems that accurately model company operations, underpinning a single source of truth

• And many more areas we’re actively starting or expanding upon!

About You

Leadership Experience:

• You have 8+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years managing engineering teams

• You've successfully managed multiple teams simultaneously (typically 2‑3 teams / 12‑20 engineers)

• You've demonstrated success in fast‑moving, ambiguous environments, particularly in rapid‑growth periods

• Ideally, you have experience as an Engineering Manager at multiple companies, including at least one successful Series A+ SaaS company

Technical Excellence:

• Strong technical background with hands‑on experience in modern web technologies

• Deep understanding of distributed systems, cloud architecture (preferably AWS), and scalability challenges

• Experience with our stack (TypeScript, React, AWS Serverless) is a plus, but not required

Track Record of Impact:

• Strong track record of successful project delivery in fast‑paced environments

• Proven history of improving team velocity and quality

• Experience scaling engineering teams through rapid growth

• Experience implementing engineering processes that scale effectively at pace

• Experience working directly with customers and translating their needs into technical solutions

Leadership Style:

• You’re data‑driven but know when to trust intuition

• You’re comfortable making decisions with incomplete information

• You excel at collaboration and influence across teams and stakeholders

• You have a track record of growing and developing engineering talent

Nice to haves that really stand out to us:

• Track record of successful product launches in B2B SaaS

• Experience with procurement / finance systems

• History of contributions to engineering communities

You can learn more about Engineering at Omnea and our hiring process via our R&D Candidate Hub here.

At Omnea, we embrace diversity. To build a product that’s loved by everyone, we’re best served by a team with all sorts of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn’t quite match the full job spec! And regardless of your race, religion, colour, gender, or anything else! If you think you could be a good fit for Omnea, please reach out.

A few things to note:

• We work Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays in‑person at our offices. At this early stage of our company life‑cycle it’s important to us that we get this together‑time, and you can read more about why we believe this is a winning move here

• We’re commercial, ambitious and we don’t pretend otherwise! We’re actively seeking folks looking to make the most of a career‑defining opportunity, with the hunger to be part of building something really impressive. You can see our values here

• We sometimes use AI note‑takers to help us transcribe interview notes, so we can be more present in your interview. If you’d like to opt out of us using automatic transcribers, please note this in the free text field in your application, otherwise we’ll take your application as confirmation that you’re happy for us to use notetakers (whether added to video calls or in the background).

We are proud to be recognised for both our culture and product, and we are just getting started. Join us as we grow!

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