Engineering Manager – Apps

Trainline; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

Dental insurance

Share purchase plan

EV Scheme

Flexible time off

Job summary

Trainline is seeking an Engineering Manager for the App Platform, leading a cross-functional mobile engineering team. You will coach engineers, guide performance, and shape technical direction while collaborating with Product and Leadership to prioritise impactful projects.

This role emphasizes people development, strong communication, and fostering an open, collaborative culture. You will own the team roadmap, manage hiring, and actively remove obstacles to delivery, ensuring high quality and

Qualifications

• Proven line management experience delivering complex projects.
• Background in Mobile App development, Platform or Developer Experience is preferred.
• Experience growing engineering teams and mentoring engineers.
• Strong communication skills and ability to build trust within teams.

Responsibilities

• Coach and develop team members through performance management and career planning.
• Involve in hiring, interviews, and onboarding of new engineers.
• Identify bottlenecks and clear roadblocks to keep projects on track.
• Collaborate with Product and Leadership to prioritise high-value work.
• Own the team technical roadmap and align with product priorities.
• Communicate delivery progress clearly to all stakeholders.
• Drive improvements in tech debt and adoption of efficient technologies.

Skills

Team leadership

People development

Communication

Agile practices

Testing practices

Mobile app development

Problem solving

Job description

Introducing the App Platform team at Trainline

You’ll be leading a team within App Platform, a talented group of iOS and Android engineers who build and evolve the foundations that power Trainline’s award-winning apps. The team provides shared capabilities, tooling, frameworks, and engineering practices that help product teams build, evolve, and deliver exceptional customer experiences at scale, moving faster while maintaining high standards of quality, performance, and reliability.

As an Engineering Manager at Trainline you will

• Be the manager for your team, constantly supporting them with their career development through coaching and performance management, ensuring they are all engaged and understand how their work contributes to the wider Trainline strategy
• Engage in technical deliverables, such as features, application monitoring, and bug fixing – although spending less time writing code than engineers
• Manage hiring, interviews, and onboarding of any new team members
• Be responsible for identifying bottlenecks in the process and roadblocks to success for your team, and clearing these to ensure success
• Work with Product and Leadership to pick the high-value projects to work on and keep your team focused on these projects
• Own the team’s technical roadmap, negotiate with Product to ensure technical projects are prioritised alongside product features
• Work with Product to manage project scope, ensure the technical deliverables are met, and communicate delivery progress clearly and frequently to all stakeholders
• Identify areas of improvement such as strategic tech debt, and more advanced/efficient technologies that will underpin Trainline growth plans

We’d love to hear from you if you

• Are a team leader with proven line management experience delivering complex projects successfully
• Have a background in Mobile App development, preferably in the Platform or Developer Experience space
• Love developing people and have experience growing engineering teams
• Can inspire your direct reports and create a strong trust-based relationship with them
• Thrive in a diverse, open, and collaborative environment
• Have great communication skills
• Are proactive, focused, supportive, honest, and a team player
• Have a passion to learn new skills
• Are a problem solver who can apply their skills to technical issues
• Advocate for the use of Agile development practices
• Advocate for best testing practices

More information

Enjoy fantastic perks like private healthcare and dental insurance, a generous work from abroad policy, 2-for-1 share purchase plans, an EV Scheme, extra festive time off, and excellent family-friendly benefits.

We prioritise career growth with clear career paths, transparent pay bands, personal learning budgets, and regular learning days.

We're operating a hybrid model and ask that Trainliners work from the office a minimum of 60% of their time over a 12-week period. We also have a 28-day Work from Abroad policy.