Engineering Manager - UK

Ashby; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 91,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and equity

10-year exercise window for stock options

Unlimited PTO

Generous equipment budget

$100/month education budget

Job summary

Ashby in Birmingham seeks a skilled engineering manager to empower a team of engineers by fostering a culture of autonomy and ownership. This role emphasizes communication, team development, and technical mentorship, as you'll oversee projects from inception to delivery while ensuring standards are met. The position offers a competitive salary, equity, and benefits like unlimited PTO and a generous education budget. Ideal candidates will thrive in a high-trust environment and have a deep understanding of engineering practices.

Qualifications

• Excellent and empathetic communication skills.
• Ability to manage teams effectively and provide constructive feedback.
• Deep technical knowledge across various engineering domains.

Responsibilities

• Empower engineers to own projects end-to-end with minimal interference.
• Develop team skills and create an effective working environment.
• Conduct in-depth product and technical discussions.

Skills

Technical communication

Team leadership

Empathy

Problem-solving

Recruitment expertise

Job description

About the Role

We're building an engineering team that empowers engineers to own projects end‑to‑end with minimal process interference. Our engineering leaders need to think deeply about individual performance, process, and culture, not run sprint plans or make product and technical decisions. You’ll focus on building your team, developing their skills, and creating an environment that lets them do their best work consistently.

• Provide feedback on product and technical specs to help engineers identify where to cut scope or improve quality.
• Grow engineers to the point where they can take large, loosely defined projects, and deliver them with little intervention.
• Jump into our systems and code to debug a customer issue, ship a small bug fix, or improve our developer experience.
• Improve how we generate and simulate data in demo accounts, a project off the critical path but with significant business impact.

Why You Should or Shouldn’t Apply

• You love being technical and can hold in-depth conversations with direct reports from infra to backend to frontend.
• You enjoy management problems and get excited about driving people to be their best, giving difficult feedback, and building systems that make this easier.
• You hold your team to a high standard and don’t shy away from getting into the details and giving feedback, even to the best folks on your team.
• You are an excellent and empathetic communicator, navigating beliefs and experiences of engineers while opening yourself to feedback.
• You know what exceptional engineers look like and have thought deeply about recruiting and growing them.
• You’re good at thinking about product, business, and maybe even design, but you’re not interested in calling the shots and are more interested in building a team that can make the best decisions without you.
• You thrive in high‑trust, high‑autonomy environments.

Put Another Way, You Shouldn’t Apply If

• You don’t enjoy coding or don’t find time to stay up‑to‑date on technology.
• You’ve gotten into management because it was the only growth path available.
• You want to make all the product decisions instead of empowering your team to make those calls.
• You’re happy with a team of engineers that are predominantly early‑career, mid‑career, or don’t thrive with ownership or autonomy.
• A staff or principal engineer to you is someone who spends most of their time project managing or doing architecture reviews.
• You’re not optimistic or convinced that we can build a large engineering team that functions differently than the status quo.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity.
• 10‑year exercise window for stock options.
• Unlimited PTO with four weeks recommended per year.
• Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget.
• $100/month education budget.

Compensation Range: £91K - £200K

Ashby provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcome people from all backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and abilities.