Engineering Manager: Lead Autonomous, End-to-End Teams

Ashby; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

10-year stock options window

Unlimited PTO

Equipment budget

Education budget

Job summary

Ashby is seeking a registered Engineering Manager to help us build a different type of engineering team and culture in Europe. You will focus on building and developing your team, enabling them to own large, loosely defined projects.

Our team values ownership and autonomy, minimal process overhead, and strong technical leadership. This role emphasizes recruiting and growing exceptional engineers, plus fostering empathetic communication across levels and disciplines.

Qualifications

• Strong leader capable of growing and developing engineers.
• Experience recruiting and growing exceptional software engineers.
• Fluency in infra, backend, and frontend conversations and decisions.

Responsibilities

• Build and develop the engineering team to own large, loosely defined projects from end to end.
• Provide feedback on product and technical specs to help scope and quality decisions.
• Lead by example to foster ownership and autonomy with minimal process overhead.
• Help debug issues, ship fixes, and improve developer experience across teams.

Skills

Technical leadership

Recruiting

Cross-stack knowledge

Empathetic communication

Job description

Ashby is seeking a registered Engineering Manager to help us build a different type of engineering team and culture in Europe. You will focus on building and developing your team, enabling them to own large, loosely defined projects.

Our team values ownership and autonomy, minimal process overhead, and strong technical leadership. This role emphasizes recruiting and growing exceptional engineers, plus fostering empathetic communication across levels and disciplines.