Engineering Manager

Birdie; London; On-site; GBP 105,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Birdie is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead and nurture engaged teams to produce high-quality software. This role offers a salary between £105k and £125k, along with competitive benefits including stock options, a personal development budget, health insurance, and a commitment to diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

Benefits

Annual personal development budget

Work from home equipment budget

33 days of holiday

Paid volunteering days

Sabbatical options after 4 years

Comprehensive health insurance

Cycle to work scheme

Fertility leave

Employer pension contribution

Regular company socials and retreats

Qualifications

• Proven experience as an Engineering Manager with successful people management skills.
• Strong set of technical skills.
• Knowledge of coaching & growing distributed product teams.
• Ability to take a step back and embrace change.
• Focus on outcomes over processes.
• Humility and a love for learning.

Responsibilities

• Build happy, healthy, engaged teams.
• Proactively role model craft to other EMs.
• Directly support engineers in their personal & professional development.
• Guide teams to deliver exceptional software with measurable impact.
• Take ownership of team services.
• Collaborate closely with talent acquisition.

Skills

Technical leadership

Coaching and mentoring

Communication skills

Job description

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About Birdie

Birdie is the leading home healthcare technology platform that aims to radically transform the lives of older adults. Its all-in-one solution supports around 4.8 million (and growing) care visits every month, equipping care providers with the tools they need to deliver better quality care and improve efficiency across most day-to-day operations. This enables us to collect over 1.5 billion data points on care recipient wellbeing each year, making Birdie the holder of the largest structured community healthcare dataset in Europe.

Birdie was founded in 2017, a B-Corp certified company that leverages technology to reimagine home care. With a total raise to date of $55M, we secured our Series B funding in 2022 led by Sofina, Omers, and Index Ventures, fuelling our mission to transform care.

Recognised for its innovation and impact, we have received numerous accolades, including ranking 6th in the 2023 Deloitte UK Technology Fast 50 and 21st in Deloitte's EMEA Technology Fast 500 in 2024. We joined Tech Nation's prestigious Future Fifty 2024 cohort and was featured in the Sifted 100 list of fastest-growing UK & Ireland startups in 2024. Furthermore, Birdie was named an NHS England Assured Supplier for Digital Social Care Records in 2023 and won the Innovative Solutions in Home Care Award at the 2024 Leaders in Care Awards.

Check out our principles and join us at Birdie as we continue to push the boundaries of what's possible in home healthcare. Together, we will continue to make a meaningful difference in the lives of millions.

Your mission

As Engineering Manager, your responsibility is to build happy, healthy, engaged teams that deliver timely impact, sustainably. You will proactively role model this craft to other EMs and partner with other leaders on opportunities to level up the wider org. You will directly support engineers with their personal & professional development, and guide the entire team (in partnership with product and design peers) to deliver exceptional software that has measurable impact for our customers. And you will grow with us, taking on increasing responsibility (such as line managing other managers) over time.

How you will contribute

• You coach, guide and unblock engineers in their career, personal development, and ability to craft high-quality software.
• You invest with product and design peers in your effectiveness as team leaders together.
• You work with product and design peers to deliver on a compelling strategy (aligned with company objectives), driving ambiguity out of plans and making tradeoffs explicit.
• You use your technical background and ability to empower, mentor and lead engineers, deeply empathising with their challenges.
• You take ownership of team services, ensuring your team delivers scalable and reliable software built to an exceptionally high standard.
• You own the shape of your engineering team, collaborating closely with talent acquisition and people chapters to ensure the right composition now and in the future.

We'd love to hear from you if

• You have proven experience as an Engineering Manager with successful people management skills and a bias for action.
• You have a strong set of technical skills, able to weigh in on technical discussions and drive good technical practices.
• You have applied knowledge of the ins and outs of coaching & growing distributed product teams.
• You embrace change, are able to take a step back.
• You focus on outcomes over processes, and coach your team to do the same.
• You are humble, and you love learning new things and can mentor or coach others.
• You have strong verbal and written communication skills in English.

What are the benefits?

People are our core strength. We are social entrepreneurs, boasting an outstanding culture with strong values (B-Corp certified). We offer intentional benefits and invest in our team's growth, satisfaction and ability to thrive:

Compensation

Our salary packages are competitive, the role is £105k - £125k. We also grant generous stock options to any permanent employee at the end of the probation period. We adjust salaries based on the cost of living index for employees based outside of the UK.

Location

This role will need to be based in the UK. We organise regular in-person events and online socials to make sure you can meet up with peers.

Birdie does not currently support any visa applications and therefore we do require permanent right to work in the UK.

L&D budget

Learning an growing is a fundamental part of Birdie life. You'll have an annual personal development budget to put towards books, courses, trainings and conferences; continuous coaching within the team and with external experts.

Work From Home budget

Making your workspace comfortable is important to us, you'll have access to a WFH equipment budget to ensure you have what you need.

Paid time off

We offer 33 days of holiday (inclusive of bank holidays) and close between Christmas and New Years outside of this. We also support you in celebrating the big moments, all Birdies get an extra "Birthday" day off and can choose to take it at any point in the year.

Birdie giving days

Birdie is a B-corp and we care deeply about ethical and social impact. Birdie will pay you for 2 days of volunteering (to a cause you're passionate about) each year.

Sabbaticals

We want Birdies to stick around for a while! After 4 years you can choose to take a sabbatical of up to 3 months.

Private health insurance & Gym and wellbeing discounts

Comprehensive health insurance with AXA that covers many physical and mental health costs. Gym discounts and numerous other wellbeing perks via Happl.

Cycle to work scheme

Birdie will buy a bike up-front and you can salary sacrifice to pay-off over the next 12-36 months

Parental Leave

Highly favourable parental leave policy; once you have spent twelve consecutive months on our payroll, primary caregivers are entitled to 26 weeks of parental leave at 100% of your usual salary and secondary caregivers are entitled to 12 weeks of parental leave, at 100% of your usual salary.

Fertility Leave

Birdie recognises the emotional and physical challenges of fertility treatment and investigations, and supports all Birdies by offering 5 additional paid days of leave.

Employer pension contribution

Birdie contributes 4% of your salary to your pension when you contribute 5% (UK Birdies)

Frequent company socials, trips and meals

We organise many socials, quarterly retreats and annual company-wide retreats

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging

At Birdie, we're committed to creating an environment that promotes diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging.

It's essential to us that you're able to bring your authentic self to work every single day, no matter your age, ethnicity, religion, citizenship, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, caring responsibilities, neurodiversity, or otherwise and all applicants will be considered for employment without attention to these aspects.

If you have any questions regarding the interview process, or if you need any reasonable adjustments to be made, please don't hesitate to contact us.