Engineering Manager — AI-Driven Email App

United States Digital Space LLC; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

BJAK is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing team building and scaling products used across the region. You will drive architecture decisions, ensure delivery quality, and collaborate with product, design, mobile, backend and AI teams to turn ambiguous problems into concrete technical plans.

The role is hybrid in the United Kingdom, requiring strong English communication, and a track record of shipping production systems.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering background with experience building and shipping real production systems.
• Experience leading or managing software engineers and owning engineering delivery.
• Strong technical depth across backend, frontend, APIs, databases, distributed systems or cloud infrastructure.
• Ability to make sound architecture and technical trade-offs while balancing speed, scalability and maintainability.
• Strong product sense and ability to connect engineering decisions to customer and business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of engineers across frontend, backend and full stack development.
• Own engineering delivery for major product areas, ensuring the team ships quickly without compromising reliability and technical quality.
• Work closely with product, design, mobile, backend and AI teams to turn ambiguous product problems into clear technical execution.
• Drive technical architecture and engineering decisions across APIs, databases, integrations, infrastructure and customer-facing systems.
• Set engineering standards around code quality, system design, testing, observability, security and production reliability.
• Stay close to the technical work through architecture reviews, code reviews, debugging and critical engineering decisions.
• Develop engineers through regular feedback, coaching, performance management and clear expectations.
• Identify performance gaps early and take ownership of raising the team's engineering and execution bar.
• Improve engineering processes, tooling and automation to help the team move faster and operate at scale.
• Own production outcomes beyond release: monitor systems, resolve incidents, identify root causes and ensure problems do not repeat.
• Build a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, speed, technical excellence and continuous improvement.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Architecture decisions

Team coaching

Cross-functional collaboration

Delivery management

Tools

APIs

Cloud infrastructure

Frontend/Backend stacks

Job description

BJAK is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing team building and scaling products used across the region. You will drive architecture decisions, ensure delivery quality, and collaborate with product, design, mobile, backend and AI teams to turn ambiguous problems into concrete technical plans.

The role is hybrid in the United Kingdom, requiring strong English communication, and a track record of shipping production systems.