Engineering Manager: Lead 5 Squads & Hybrid Delivery

easyJet; Luton; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Pension scheme

Life assurance

Discounted staff travel for friends &/

Annual credit for discount on easyJet

Work Away scheme

Electric vehicle lease

Job summary

easyJet is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead five squads within our engineering organisation. You will coach Engineering Leads and Senior Engineers, protect focus, and unblock sprint delivery while collaborating with Product and Mission Leads.

You will drive engineering health, uphold standards, and help grow a pipeline of future leaders, engaging in design discussions without hands-on coding and strengthening the EM community across easyJet.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership of engineers across multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead and Grow Engineers: Line-manage Engineering Leads and Senior Engineers. Provide coaching, career development, and performance support.
• Own Team Health: Drive psychological safety, sustainable pace, engagement, and retention across five squads.
• Support Delivery: Partner with Product and Mission Leads to unblock sprints and surface delivery risks early.
• Raise the Engineering Bar: Set and uphold technical standards, code quality, and engineering practices.
• Build the Bench: Attract, hire, and build a talent pipeline of future senior engineers and tech leads.
• Stay Technically Credible: Engage in design debates and challenge technical choices without coding day-to-day.
• Strengthen the Community: Share practices and align standards across the wider easyJet EM community.

Skills

Leadership

Agile delivery

Cloud-native

CI/CD

Communication

Talent development

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

easyJet is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead five squads within our engineering organisation. You will coach Engineering Leads and Senior Engineers, protect focus, and unblock sprint delivery while collaborating with Product and Mission Leads.

You will drive engineering health, uphold standards, and help grow a pipeline of future leaders, engaging in design discussions without hands-on coding and strengthening the EM community across easyJet.