Engineering Manager (up to £160k)

Dex; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Dex is seeking a senior engineering leader to directly manage engineers across multiple squads and mentor teams responsible for intelligent, experiential, and platform initiatives. You will partner with the CTO and Product leadership to establish a planning rhythm that surfaces dependencies and risks without centralizing decisions.

You will own technical hiring and organizational design as the team scales across London and New York, assess architecture and pipelines, and translate business

Qualifications

• Direct people management experience leading software engineers in a fast-growing startup or tier-one tech company.
• Proven track record shipping distributed systems, data pipelines, or platform infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience hiring, developing, and shaping team structures as priorities evolve.
• Ability to coordinate parallel workstreams across multiple teams without micromanaging.
• Outcome-oriented management focusing on customer impact and software reliability.

Responsibilities

• Directly manage and mentor engineers across three squads—intelligence, experience, and platform.
• Partner with CTO and Product leadership to design a lightweight planning rhythm surfacing dependencies and risks.
• Own technical hiring and organizational design as the team scales across London and New York.
• Assess codebase architecture, delivery pipelines, and squad capabilities to resolve bottlenecks in high-throughput data systems.
• Translate enterprise requirements into credible, transparent roadmaps that engineers help shape.

Skills

People management

Engineering leadership

Hiring & org design

Cross-team coordination

Distributed systems

Job description

This role is with one of Dex's trusted partner companies. We work closely with their teams to truly understand their culture, goals, and what they're looking for, so we can match you with the right opportunity and give you context about the role before you commit to a process.

The role

Most software built for private markets relies on surface-level workflow automation. This team builds an autonomous agentic platform that executes complex sourcing, diligence, and portfolio monitoring workflows for multi-billion-dollar private equity and credit funds. Backed by leading fintech investors with over $20M in funding and exceptional revenue growth over the past year, they have reached proven product-market fit across major financial hubs in the US and Europe.

The work

• Directly manage and mentor engineers across three squads—intelligence, experience, and platform—developing technical leadership within each unit.
• Partner with the CTO and Product leadership to design a lightweight planning rhythm that surfaces dependencies and risks without centralizing decisions.
• Own technical hiring and organizational design, shaping the composition of the squads as the team scales across London and New York.
• Assess codebase architecture, delivery pipelines, and squad capabilities to resolve technical bottlenecks in high-throughput agentic data systems.
• Translate high-stakes commercial requirements from enterprise investment firms into credible, transparent roadmaps that engineers actively shape.

What You Bring

• Direct people management experience leading software engineers, preceded by a strong foundation as an individual contributor at a fast-growing startup or tier-one tech company.
• Demonstrated track record of shipping distributed systems, data pipelines, or platform infrastructure through teams you led.
• Hands‑on experience hiring, developing, and making structural team‑shape decisions as priorities and scope evolve.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate parallel workstreams across multiple teams without micromanaging or stripping ownership from the engineers doing the work.
• An outcome‑oriented management philosophy that evaluates team health on shipped customer impact and software reliability rather than internal velocity metrics.