Engineering Manager - AI-First Team Leader & Platform Enabler

TrustFlight; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

TrustFlight is seeking an Engineering Manager in London to build and sustain a high-performing team of six to eight engineers. This is a people and systems leadership role focused on coaching, performance standards, and owning process, testing, tooling and infrastructure the team depends on.

You will shape how engineering works across the Product, Design and Engineering department, collaborating with product and technical leads while ensuring environments, CI/CD, and testing meet demanding

Qualifications

• At least three years' experience as a dedicated people manager of software engineers, including senior engineers.
• Software engineering background able to contribute credibly in a design review, challenge an architectural decision on its merits, and distinguish a team that feels fast from one that is fast.
• Current, practical familiarity with infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD and automated testing, covering Terraform, Pulumi or equivalent, containerised deployment and a major cloud platform.
• A track record of raising and holding a quality bar across a team: testing strategy, review standards, and the discipline to keep them consistent as the team and the codebase change.
• Demonstrable experience of improving how a team works, supported by evidence of the resulting difference.
• Direct experience of performance management, including at least one case of successfully improving, or fairly exiting, an underperformer.

Responsibilities

• Raise the performance bar with every hire and every promotion; coach engineers through regular 1:1s and stretch assignments.
• Manage performance decisively; set expectations, recognise strong work, and address underperformance promptly.
• Unblock the team across tooling, infrastructure, testing and process; own the infrastructure-as-code estate and improve flow metrics.
• Own testing standards and release criteria; ensure quality is consistent across the team.
• Architect cross-team developer tooling and drive consolidation of the technology estate.
• Maintain an accurate view of technical debt, risks and opportunities for the PM to prioritise.
• Lead the team's adoption of AI-assisted development; set standards and guardrails for AI use and code review.
• Help establish consistent engineering practice across TrustFlight with other Engineering Managers.

Skills

People management

Infrastructure as code

CI/CD experience

Testing standards

AI governance

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

Cloud platforms

Job description

TrustFlight is seeking an Engineering Manager in London to build and sustain a high-performing team of six to eight engineers. This is a people and systems leadership role focused on coaching, performance standards, and owning process, testing, tooling and infrastructure the team depends on.

You will shape how engineering works across the Product, Design and Engineering department, collaborating with product and technical leads while ensuring environments, CI/CD, and testing meet demanding