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 guide and mentor engineers across three squads—intelligence, experience and platform. You will set technical direction, foster delivery excellence, and partner with the CTO and product leadership to align roadmaps with business goals.

You will own technical hiring and team design as the org scales across London and New York, translating complex investment client requirements into credible plans engineers can execute with clarity and speed.

Qualifications

• Direct people management experience leading software engineers.
• Track record shipping distributed systems and data pipelines.
• Hands-on with hiring and organizational design.
• Ability to coordinate parallel workstreams across teams.
• Outcome-oriented mindset focusing on customer impact and reliability.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

People management

Distributed systems

Data pipelines

Platform infrastructure

Hiring

Cross-team coordination

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.