Engineering Manager, Cloud

Verda; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Cash and equity compensation

Hybrid work model

Global growth opportunities

Job summary

Verda is seeking an Engineering Manager for its Cloud engineering team to shape structure, priorities, and delivery, enabling engineers to focus on building. You will lead people, hire, coach, and align with Product and the Tech Lead on decisions, balancing product goals with technical constraints in a fast-growing environment.

You will operate in a hybrid mode with offices in London and Helsinki, fostering fairness, psychological safety, and sustainable performance while guiding team growth.

Qualifications

• Experience managing engineers through clear expectations, regular feedback, development, and fair performance management.
• Experience building or improving a team's operating system, not just coordinating its meetings.
• Strong delivery judgement: prioritisation, dependencies, risk management.
• Sufficient technical background to coach and assess without taking over ownership.
• Experience hiring and onboarding engineers to scale teams.
• Strong collaboration with Product and technical leadership with clear ownership boundaries.

Responsibilities

• Establish team structure, ownership, and ways of working to empower decision-making.
• Build planning and coordination practices to support delivery without adding unnecessary process.
• Remove administrative work that distracts engineers from building.
• Own people leadership: expectations, feedback, growth, hiring, onboarding.
• Coordinate delivery and dependencies, keeping priorities and risks visible.
• Agree priorities with Product and the Tech Lead, balancing product needs and technical constraints.
• Improve the system when delivery or coordination problems recur rather than patching around them.

Skills

People management

Engineering leadership

Delivery governance

Cloud/Infrastructure context

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Job description

At Verda, we're building a full-stack AI cloud, covering everything from data centers and hardware to our own cloud platform that the world's leading AI teams use to do serious AI work.

We strive to make a positive mark on the world through the infrastructure we build and give leading teams a service they can truly depend on. Headquartered in Helsinki, we operate globally with offices in London and San Francisco.

Join Verda while it's still being built - not once it's finished.

About The Role

As Engineering Manager for our Cloud engineering team, you build the structure a growing team needs: how people work together, how priorities get decided, and how delivery gets coordinated. You take on the people and organisational work so engineers can focus on building and the Tech Lead can focus on technical direction, rather than carrying meetings, administration, and coordination themselves.

You work closely with Product, who own product decisions, and the Tech Lead, who owns technical decisions. You own people leadership, career development, and how the team works, and the three of you agree priorities together, weighing product goals, technical constraints, and the team's capacity.

Your Responsibilities

• Establish team structure, ownership, and ways of working that let the team operate without depending on you for every decision.
• Build planning and coordination practices that support delivery without adding unnecessary process.
• Remove administrative and organisational work that distracts engineers from building.
• Own people leadership: expectations, feedback, one-to-ones, career growth, hiring, and onboarding.
• Coordinate delivery and dependencies, keeping priorities, commitments, and risks visible.
• Agree priorities with Product and the Tech Lead, weighing product needs, technical constraints, and team capacity.
• Improve the system when delivery or coordination problems repeat, rather than managing around them permanently.

Your key competencies

You combine credible engineering context with serious people-management capability. Being accountable for team outcomes doesn't mean making every decision yourself.

• Evidence of managing engineers through clear expectations, regular feedback, development, and fair performance management.
• Experience building or improving a team's operating system, not just coordinating its meetings.
• Strong delivery judgement: creating focus, surfacing trade-offs, managing dependencies, and acting on risk early.
• Enough technical background to understand the team's work, challenge assumptions, and coach judgement without taking over technical ownership.
• Experience hiring and onboarding engineers while balancing delivery needs with longer-term capability.
• Strong collaboration with Product and technical leadership, with clear ownership boundaries.
• Ability to operate calmly and directly in a fast-growing, ambiguous environment.
• High standards for fairness, psychological safety, accountability, and sustainable performance.

Nice to have

• Experience managing teams responsible for cloud platforms, distributed systems, developer products, or production infrastructure.
• Experience working in a paired Engineering Manager and Tech Lead model.
• Experience scaling a team or reshaping responsibilities as an organisation grows.
• Hands-on engineering experience earlier in your career.

Why Verda

• Cash and equity compensation along with various fringe benefits.
• Profitable operations with rapid, sustained growth.
• 40+ nationalities, with 6 different ones on the management team.
• A real chance to make an impact and work alongside world class engineers, researchers, and partners across the global AI ecosystem.

Practicalities

• Work mode: Hybrid (Helsinki or London)
• Level: Engineering Manager
• Employment type: Full-time and permanent

What's Next

We're building fast and this role needs the right person behind it. There's no artificial deadline, but when we find who we're looking for, we move. If this sounds like your next move, apply now.