Engineering Manager – Reminders Platform (Hybrid)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Staff discounts

Pension plan

Private healthcare

Flexible working

Job summary

Qualifications

• Experience leading software engineers as an Engineering Manager or comparable people-leadership role.
• Strong coaching instincts with focus on developer growth and autonomy.
• Engineering depth to contribute to full-stack, cloud, architecture and operational conversations.
• Ability to balance technical leadership with facilitation and collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Jointly own the direction and outcomes of Reminders with Product, balancing customer and business goals with engineering needs.
• Build a strong Product-Engineering partnership for discovery and solution shaping.
• Understand Reminders domain: CRM-backed targeting, personalization opportunities.
• Stay hands-on and contribute code to Production where appropriate while enabling the team to own delivery.
• Facilitate technical discussions and help the team reach well-reasoned decisions.
• Encourage pragmatic engineering practices and responsible build-versus-reuse decisions.
• Own delivery: estimation, planning, sequencing, dependencies, risks and progress metrics.
• Balance customer value with maintainability and technical quality, including automated testing and documentation.
• Champion collaborative programming, testing approaches (TDD), CI/CD and production ownership.
• Ensure observability and operational health with KPIs and incident ownership.
• Collaborate with Data Science, CRM, and other teams to improve personalization and reduce complexity.

Skills

Leadership

Coaching

Full-stack engineering

System design

Stakeholder collaboration

Tools

Node.js/TypeScript

C#/.NET

React

GraphQL

AWS

Terraform

CI/CD

Job description