Engineering Manager

Carv; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Carv, based in Greater London, is looking for an Engineering Leader to manage a team of engineers across Android, iOS, Rust, and backend. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience in shipping code and a strong ability to guide engineering processes as Carv scales.

This role demands a direct communication style and a focus on quality, with opportunities to shape engineering decisions and improve practices within a growing company.

Join Carv and lead our technology development while contributing to the future of sports coaching!

Qualifications

• Experience managing engineers in a startup or scale-up environment.
• Hands-on experience shipping code to production in fast-paced settings.
• Strong product instinct with a focus on quality and customer experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of engineers across multiple platforms.
• Collaborate with Product and CTO to manage trade-offs and deliver quality outcomes.
• Ensure real-world product validation and quality.

Skills

Team management

Technical judgment

Hands-on engineering

Clear communication

AI fluency

Job description

About Carv

Carv is building the future of sports coaching. We combine AI, real‑time feedback, and sensor‑driven data to help skiers improve faster and enjoy the sport more. Our product sits at the intersection of hardware, mobile, backend systems, biomechanics, and coaching, and we care deeply about building technology that works in the real world, not just in theory.

Full‑time
Hybrid (3 days minimum in office)

The role

You’ll be responsible for line management, delivery, engineering quality, and the quality of the product your team ships.
You’ll work directly with the CTO and help shape how engineering operates as Carv scales.

What You’ll Do

• Lead and develop a team of engineers across Android, iOS, Rust, and backend, with full ownership of line management, performance, growth, and hiring.
• Partner with Product and the CTO to turn priorities into clear plans, manage trade‑offs, and deliver high‑quality outcomes.
• Own the quality of the product your team ships, including real‑world validation on snow through direct ski testing or close collaboration with others.
• Work with senior engineers on architecture, technical direction, quality, and execution standards.
• Help the team get real leverage from AI by combining strong usage with clear workflows, review standards, testing, and structure.

What We’re Looking For

• Experience managing strong engineers in a startup or scale‑up, with the technical judgment to guide decisions and earn trust.
• Hands‑on engineering experience shipping code to production in a fast‑paced company, with enough depth to understand trade‑offs, review technical decisions, and credibly support the team.
• Strong product instinct and a sharp eye for quality, including real‑world validation of the customer experience.
• Clear, direct communication style with a strong ability to build accountability and handle performance well.
• Strong AI fluency, high standards, and a bias for action.

Why join Carv

Carv produces a wearable ski motion sensor paired with an AI coaching app. It measures biomechanics in real time, scores skiing ability across disciplines, and delivers personalised audio coaching on snow. We are leading the personal sport coaching market, with growing retention, strong word‑of‑mouth acquisition, and a dedicated community of skiers who rely on Carv throughout their season.

We need an engineering leader to help us scale the team and the technology behind this product. This means working across mobile, backend, AI, data, and hardware systems, and making sure the product performs in the real world, on the mountain, in the moment.

In practical terms, this means working directly with the CTO to improve how engineering operates, raise the quality bar, strengthen technical decision‑making, and help strong engineers do their best work. The engineering culture, team structure, development processes, and AI‑first ways of working are all open to be shaped.

This is a leadership role with genuine scope to define how Carv builds software as we scale through one of the most consequential points in the company’s trajectory.