Engineering Manager

SR2 | Socially Responsible Recruitment | Certified B Corporation™; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

SR2 | Socially Responsible Recruitment | Certified B Corporation™ seeks an Engineering Manager to scale a high-performing product engineering organisation in London. The role blends leadership with hands-on architecture and hands-off mentoring, in a hybrid setup with 2 days in the office.

You will shape delivery processes, support pod leads, improve forecasting, and help create an environment where engineers can do their best work as the business grows.

Qualifications

• Previous experience as an Engineering Manager with direct line management responsibility, or a Senior IC with mentoring experience and ambition to move more hands-off.

Responsibilities

• Managing and supporting product engineering teams delivering customer facing software.
• Helping teams break down ambiguous product work into clear, achievable plans.
• Improving delivery visibility, forecasting, prioritisation, and risk management.
• Working closely with Product and Design to balance engineering quality with commercial goals.
• Coaching engineers and emerging technical leaders across performance, growth, and communication.
• Contributing to architecture, system design and technical planning, with 10–20% hands-on coding in a supporting capacity.
• Building lightweight operational systems that improve execution without slowing teams down.
• Supporting hiring, onboarding, and team scaling as the business grows.

Skills

Python

Vue.js

Job description

Engineering Manager | London | Hybrid | AI Product Company

Location: London (hybrid - 2x a week in office)

A growing AI product company is looking for an Engineering Manager to help scale a high performing product engineering organisation at a key stage of growth.

The business has already built strong commercial traction, works with a range of well known organisations, and is now at the point where engineering maturity, delivery confidence, and team scalability matter just as much as speed.

This is not a “sit in meetings and update Jira tickets” kind of management role. They are looking for someone who can bring structure without bureaucracy, help strong engineers perform at a higher level, and create clarity in an environment where priorities move quickly and product decisions happen fast.

The engineering team is still relatively small, which means this role has real influence over how the organisation evolves over the next few years. The right person will shape delivery processes, support pod leads and senior engineers, improve forecasting confidence, and help create an environment where engineers can do the best work of their careers.

What you’ll be doing:

• Managing and supporting product engineering teams delivering customer facing software
• Helping teams break down ambiguous product work into clear, achievable plans
• Improving delivery visibility, forecasting, prioritisation, and risk management
• Working closely with Product and Design to balance engineering quality with commercial goals
• Coaching engineers and emerging technical leaders across performance, growth, and communication
• Contributing to architecture, system design and technical planning, with around 10-20% hands-on coding in a supporting capacity
• Building lightweight operational systems that improve execution without slowing teams down
• Supporting hiring, onboarding, and team scaling as the business grows

What they’re looking for:

• Previous experience as an Engineering Manager with direct line management responsibility, or a Senior IC with considerable mentoring experience & a clear ambition to move more hands off
• Experience leading delivery within product focused software teams
• Strong judgement around prioritisation, sequencing, estimation, and trade offs
• Ability to operate well in fast moving environments with ambiguity and changing priorities
• Strong communication skills and confidence handling difficult conversations when needed
• Enough technical depth to challenge assumptions and understand engineering decisions
• A pragmatic mindset around process, systems, and scaling teams
• Python
• Vue.js

Solid technical & product experience with a different stack is welcomed!

The company is at one of the more enjoyable stages for an Engineering Manager to join. There is already real product usage, commercial traction, and a strong engineering foundation, but still plenty of opportunity to influence how the organisation scales. You are not inheriting layers of process or decades of technical debt disguised as “best practice”!

It is a role for someone who enjoys helping ambitious engineers move faster, communicate better, and build stronger systems without turning the company into a corporate meeting simulator.