Engineering Manager

Abtrace; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthtech startup in London is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team of developers and drive product delivery. The ideal candidate has over 3 years of leadership experience in high-growth environments and a strong background in engineering best practices. This role offers competitive salary, equity, and the chance to shape engineering culture during a growth phase.

Benefits

Competitive salary + equity

Fast career progression

Unique opportunity to shape engineering culture

Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering leadership experience in high-growth environments.
• Hands-on experience with Python, React, and AWS.
• Ability to mentor and support engineers in a fast-paced setting.

Responsibilities

• Grow and manage high-performing engineering teams.
• Implement engineering best practices to improve quality.
• Collaborate with Product and Design teams.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Mentoring

Code quality

Recruitment

Cross-functional collaboration

Python

React

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

About Us

We're a fast-growing pre-Series A healthtech startup with a team of doctors, researchers, developers and data scientists building clinical algorithms for healthcare. Backed by top-tier investors, we are entering a critical growth phase having tripled our team with 5x growth over the last year.

To succeed, we're looking grow our engineering team and transform our culture to prepare for scale-ups - where performance, autonomy, velocity, accountability and quality coexist hand in hand.

What You'll Do

We are seeking a dynamic Engineering Manager to grow our talented team of developers while delivering exceptional products

Requirements

• Lead & Scale: Grow, mentor and manage high-performing engineering teams, with a focus on speed, rigor, and accountability
• Mentor & Grow: Coach engineers to improve technically and professionally, creating a clear growth path
• Set the Bar: Implement engineering best practices and raise the quality bar across code, architecture, and delivery
• Transform Culture: Help transition the team from early-stage startup to an elite engineering organization with structure, pace, and intensity
• Own Delivery: Ensure projects are delivered rapidly, always putting customer needs at the heart of what we do
• Drive Performance: Cultivate a high-output, high-trust culture where engineers take full ownership and move quickly without sacrificing quality
• Hire A+ Talent: Recruit, onboard, and retain top engineers who are drawn to a fast, demanding, high growth environment
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Work closely with Product, Design, and Ops to prioritize and execute
  
  

You Might Be a Fit If You...

• Have 3+ years of engineering leadership experience in high-growth startups or scale-ups
• Have seen scale before and be hungry to build it again
• Cultivate and support engineering in high-velocity environments with clear KPIs and performance expectations
• Know how to balance speed with engineering rigor—shipping fast, but (rarely) breaking things
• Are hands-on enough to jump into code or architecture discussions but know how to delegate and empower
• Have a strong product mindset—you care about outcomes, not just output
• Are relentless about raising the bar on execution, hiring, and accountability
• Have some hands-on experience with Python, React, public cloud environments (AWS preferred), distributed systems (such as Kubernetes), and infrastructure as code
  
  

Benefits

• Competitive salary + meaningful equity
• Fast career progression in a flat, high-ownership environment
• A unique opportunity to shape engineering culture during hyper growth
• High agency, high accountability
• A chance to work with a motivated, highly functioning, multi-disciplinary team
• Opportunity to work in building something transformative and good for the world