Engineering Manager

Randstad (Schweiz) AG; London; Hybrid; GBP 87,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Join an innovative HealthTech startup as an Engineering Manager, where you will lead a dynamic team focused on enhancing the marketplace experience in the care sector. This role offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact by driving product development and implementing technical best practices. You will work collaboratively with product managers and designers to shape the future of care services, ensuring families can easily navigate their options. If you are passionate about technology and want to contribute to a mission-driven company, this is the perfect role for you.

Benefits

Generous EMI share offering

26 days holiday plus bank holidays

Hybrid working model

Career progression opportunities

Inclusive company culture

Employee benefits package

Qualifications

• 7+ years in software engineering with leadership experience.
• Hands-on coding and technical decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineers to drive product improvements.
• Code alongside your team while ensuring best practices.

Skills

Software Engineering

Team Leadership

React

Next.js

Typescript

AWS

Kubernetes

Product Management

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's Degree in a relevant field

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Git

Job description

️ Title: Engineering Manager

Department: Engineering - reporting to the CPTO

Salary: £87,500 - £125,000 (depending on experience and seniority)

Benefits & Culture: See here.

Equity: A very generous EMI share offering.

Holiday: 26 days + bank holidays.

Mission: Elevate later life for everybody and build the care sector of the future.

Office Policy: Hybrid with a minimum of 2 core office days per week.

Office Location: London Bridge, London, UK.

The Opportunity:

We are seeking a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead a high-impact product engineering team focused on Lottie's marketplace (lottie.org). This is a critical role where you will play a key part in enhancing the experience for families navigating the later living sector, while helping our partners (care home and home care providers) maximise their reach.

Your team will drive significant marketplace improvements by boosting conversion rates and organic traffic, while also building exciting new capabilities from the ground up. You and your team will refactor and simplify code for scalability and maintainability, enrich listings for a personalised user experience, and ultimately guide customers toward the best possible care for their loved ones.

What does this role involve?

• A significant portion of your time will be spent coding alongside your team, leading by example on technical best practices. This is a genuinely hands-on role (React, Next, Typescript, AWS, Kubernetes,...)
• Driving the product decisions and roadmap alongside the Product Manager and Designer.
• Managing a team of 3-4 engineers; helping them grow and deliver more impact
• Helping the team operate effectively by breaking problems down into simpler ones for fast delivery and impact.
• Make key architectural decisions with other tech leaders.

What problems will you be solving?

• Rebuild our search engine to provide more personalised results.
• Build a chatbot to help users find the best care.
• Provide a self-service platform so our Marketing team can build new landing pages autonomously.
• Improve tracking of user flows to identify drop off.
• Run many experiments to improve conversions.
• Among many others!

We think you’ll be a great fit if…

• You are a self starter. You thrive in a fast-paced environment and are comfortable working on challenges with many unknowns. You provide clarity and make things happen
• You have 7+ years of hands on experience in software engineering, including leading technical decisions and mentoring engineers and have worked across the stack
• You are both product minded and conscious of what great looks like from an engineering point of view. You focus relentlessly on impact and decreasing the cost of change.
• You have embraced AI. You use cursor, windsurf or similar and try AI for all kind of productivity improvements while understanding the limitations of existing LLMs
• You have partnered with PMs and Designers before, ideally on web products.
• You value diversity and inclusion and are passionate about creating a space where everyone’s voices are heard, respected, and celebrated.
• You’re someone who brings joy and enjoys building meaningful work relationships.

This role isn’t for you if…

• Our mission to elevate later life care doesn’t resonate with you.
• You aren’t comfortable with ambiguity, or thinking from first principles.
• You don’t enjoy working in a fast paced environment with loosely defined requirements.
• You don’t enjoy being hands on anymore. We believe leaders should operate at all levels
• You are more comfortable with perfect tomorrow over good enough today.

Lottie’sInterview Process

1. Screening interview led by Lottie’s Talent Acquisition Lead
2. First round interview led by Hiring Manager
3. Technical assessment interview with the Hiring Manager and one member of Lottie’s Senior Management Team
4. Behavioural interview with Hiring Manager
5. Final interview with Will Donnelly (Lottie’s Co-Founder & CEO)

Candidate Experience: The majority of feedback will be given via email and we try our very best to give specific and constructive feedback where possible.

Meet Lottie

Founded in London in July 2021, Lottie is a fast growth HealthTech start-up aiming to build the world’s first SaaS enabled marketplace for care and with a goal of allowing families to seamlessly book care online in a similar manner to reserving a holiday stay via Airbnb or Expedia.

Since launching in July 2021, Lottie has supported millions of care seekers find the right care for loved ones and has raised over £25m from leading venture capital funds including Accel, General Catalyst and Kindred, as well as from well known technology entrepreneurs including Mike Hudack (ex-CPTO of Deliveroo & Monzo) and Tom Blomfield (ex-CEO of Monzo Bank). More recently, Lottie was the acclaimed winner of LinkedIn and Startup.co.uk Top Startup awards.

As of today, Lottie offers three core products and services, including:

• Lottie (B2B2C Marketplace) - Free service that helps families find the UK’s best care homes and home care services.
• Found by Lottie (B2B Vertical SaaS) - AI-native OS software supporting care providers to effectively manage their enquiries, occupancy and finances.
• Seniorcare by Lottie (B2B Vertical SaaS) - Employee benefit helping companies deliver outstanding eldercare support to their employees.

Why Lottie?

• Career Opportunity - A career-defining opportunity to lead and shape the future of our flagship marketplace and tackle complex challenges across the stack!
• Early Hire Benefits - Be an early hire at one of the UK’s fastest growing startups and benefit from fast career progression, as well as a generous stock options package.
• Mission - Tech for good that aims to build the care industry of the future and to positively impact millions of peoples lives. Care is one of the final remaining large consumer industries that is yet to be disrupted and positively revolutionised by technology.
• Investors - Series A backed startup having raised £25m+ from tier 1 venture capital investors including Accel and General Catalyst.
• Global Opportunity & Scalability - Be part of a company that is solving a real tangible problem that every family around the world faces at some point in their life.
• People - Join a kind, talented and mission driven team that loves coming to work every day.
• Culture - Excellent employee compensation/benefits, hybrid office policy and outstanding company culture with a 5/5 employee review score on Glassdoor.
• Award Winning - Acclaimed winner of LinkedIn’s 2024 “Top Startups” and named “the UK’s number one startup for 2025” in Startup.co.uk 100 Index.

We want to create an inclusive environment that celebrates the diversity of our people whilst enabling them to do the best work of their careers. We are committed to ensuring that all our people processes are equitable. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity status or disability status.

If you require reasonable accommodations during the application or interview process, please let us know at [e-mail]