Engineering Manager

Cleo; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health insurance

Mental health support

Sabbatical after four years

Learning & development platform

Pension contributions

Location-specific leave entitlements

Job summary

Cleo is building the world's first AI financial assistant and now seeks an Engineering Manager to lead and develop high-performing engineering teams across multiple product squads. You’ll partner with Product and technical leadership to drive delivery, team health and longer-term strategy.

You’ll hire, coach and retain top engineers, foster strong collaboration across disciplines, and ensure delivery excellence on our Rails/Kubernetes stack while upholding engineering principles and values.

Qualifications

• Strong experience leading and developing engineering teams with a focus on performance and growth.
• Solid experience with Ruby on Rails and leading engineers in a production Rails environment.
• Experience delivering across multiple squads, balancing priorities with long-term strategy.
• Proven track record hiring, coaching and developing engineers at various career stages.
• Able to enable technical decisions with strong judgment and stakeholder alignment.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop engineers across multiple squads.
• Own team health, performance and engagement through regular feedback.
• Partner with Product Managers and Tech Leads to shape priorities and delivery.
• Own delivery outcomes across squads and remove blockers.
• Translate company priorities into clear goals for teams.
• Uphold engineering standards and drive technical decision-making.
• Hire and retain great engineers, building inclusive and high-performing teams.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Ruby on Rails

Delivery ownership

Hiring & coaching

Stakeholder management

Job description

Most money apps talk at you. Cleo talks back.

We're not building another finance app. We're building the world's first AI financial assistant, one that actually understands your money and makes you better at it, and we're changing the world's relationship with money in the process. For everyone, whatever their background or balance.

The proof: profitable, fast-growing, a unicorn with over $300M in ARR, and millions of people who now feel differently about their money.

We love original thinkers who challenge the status quo. We move fast, tell the truth, and there's nowhere to hide from good work here. If that excites you more than it scares you, you'll fit right in.

Follow us on LinkedIn for new features and the occasional roast.

Meet The Team

Here at Cleo, we have ~200 Engineers organised into Pillars. Our stack spans a Ruby on Rails monolith, a single React Native (TypeScript) app frontend, Python for machine learning services, and PostgreSQL, all hosted on AWS and shipped through Kubernetes - backend goes out multiple times a week, app releases to Google and Apple at least weekly. To thrive here, our engineers proactively use our Engineering Principles to guide daily decisions, take ownership of problems beyond their own squad to drive broader impact, and actively drive their own learning, development, and growth.

About The Role

We’re hiring an Engineering Manager to lead and develop high-performing engineering teams across multiple product squads. You’ll partner closely with Product and technical leadership to drive delivery, team health and longer-term strategy.

• Lead, coach and develop engineers across multiple squads, creating an environment where people can grow and do their best work
• Own team health, performance and engagement through regular 1:1s, clear feedback and development conversations
• Partner with Product Managers, Tech Leads, TLMs and Staff Engineers to shape priorities, planning and strategy
• Own delivery and outcomes across your squads, keeping teams focused on the highest-impact work and removing blockers
• Translate broader company and product priorities into clear goals and direction for your teams
• Enable strong technical decision-making across our Ruby on Rails environment, empowering senior engineers while upholding our engineering principles and standards
• Hire and retain great engineers, building healthy, inclusive and high-performing teams
• Improve how teams work together, navigating dependencies and strengthening collaboration across Engineering, Product and other disciplines

What we're looking for

• Strong experience leading and developing engineering teams, including performance, growth and engagement
• Solid experience with Ruby on Rails and the technical depth to effectively lead engineers in a production Rails environment
• Experience owning delivery and outcomes across multiple squads, balancing immediate priorities with longer-term strategy
• A track record of hiring, coaching and developing engineers at different stages of their careers
• Strong technical judgement and the ability to enable great technical decisions without needing to make every technical call yourself
• Experience partnering with Product and technical leadership to align on priorities, direction and delivery
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to create alignment and unblock teams
• A track record of building healthy, inclusive and high-performing teams
• Alignment with company values and engineering principles

What we offer

We offer benefits package built to support you in and out of work. Benefits vary by country and include meaningful equity, comprehensive health insurance, mental health support, a paid one-month sabbatical after four years, a learning & development platform, pension or retirement contributions, and location-specific leave entitlements.

For the full breakdown on what's available in your location, visit our Candidate Hub.

What Matters

Cleo's mission is to change the world's relationship with money. We can't do that without building a brilliant, genuinely diverse team - and making sure our hiring process gives everyone a fair shot, running a fair and transparent recruitment process in which every candidate is considered on their merits.

We're glad to make reasonable adjustments at any stage of the process. If there's anything we can do to support you in showing us your best, please let your recruiter or one of the team know.

We may use AI-assisted tools during the recruitment process to take support the team in different ways like taking notes or referring back to conversations. They do not replace the team and all applications are reviewed by a Cleo employee thoroughly!