Platform Engineering Manager

Dexory; East Hagbourne; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare (Bupa)

Life insurance

Income protection

Pension (4+% employee, 5% employer)

Employee Assistance Programme

25 holidays per year

Onsite meals in Wallingford

Team events & snacks

Job summary

Dexory in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, is seeking an Engineering Manager (Platform) to lead a growing team of platform engineers. You will own internal tooling, infrastructure, data pipelines powering a global fleet of autonomous robots, in a hybrid setup with roughly one day on-site.

You will mentor 5–15 engineers, shape architecture, and drive observability and CI/CD across multiple stacks (Go, Python, TS, React) while collaborating with product and operations.

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineering teams in high-growth tech environments.
• Proven platform engineering background with infra, tooling, and data pipelines.
• Ability to frame work in business terms and manage multiple priorities.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a growing platform engineering team (5–15 engineers).
• Own internal tooling, infrastructure, data pipelines powering autonomous robots.
• Review architecture and challenge decisions; ensure scalable solutions.
• Drive observability, monitoring, and incident response at scale.
• Coach engineers across career stages and multiple tech stacks.
• Collaborate with product, operations, and other leaders to align priorities.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders and translate tech work into business value.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Platform engineering

Observability & monitoring

Robotics/IoT domain knowledge

Go

Python

TypeScript

React

Linux

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

PostgreSQL

AWS

CI/CD pipelines

Real-time data / edge computing

Tools

Grafana

Datadog

Prometheus

Job description

Location: Wallingford - Oxfordshire (Hybrid) - circa one day per week on site

Permanent

At Dexory, we are transforming the warehousing and logistics industry through data intelligence.

We’re currently recruiting for a engineering manager (Platform) to lead and develop a growing team of platform engineers responsible for the internal tooling, infrastructure, data pipelines, and special projects that power our global fleet of autonomous robot.

Offices based in Wallingford, Oxford but hybrid basis (circa one day per week on site) either commutable by car or circa 40 minutes via train from London Paddington.

Any experience within robotics or start up / scale up environments desirable along with B2B SaaS experience.

Responsibilities / Skills

• Proven experience as an Engineering Manager, Tech Lead Manager, or similar leadership role in a high-growth technology company, ideally with teams of 5–15 engineers. Must have previously worked within software or DevOps engineering and be able to demonstrate technical ability.
• Strong background in platform engineering, infrastructure, embedded systems, or a similarly complex technical domain. Solid understanding of system architecture, with the ability to review and challenge architectural decisions. Experience with observability, monitoring, and alerting at scale (e.g. Grafana, Datadog, Prometheus). Experience with robotics, IoT, or hardware-adjacent software is highly desirable.
• Demonstrated ability to coach and develop engineers at various career stages, with a genuine passion for helping people reach their potential.
• Experience managing teams working across multiple systems and technology stacks (e.g. Go, Python, TypeScript, React, Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, PostgreSQL, AWS, CI/CD pipelines, real-time data, edge computing).
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. Ability to frame technical work in terms of business value and navigate competing priorities from multiple senior leaders.
• Track record of operating effectively in fast-paced, sometimes ambiguous environments where priorities shift, and pragmatic decision-making is essential.
• A proactive, collaborative mindset with the ability to build strong working relationships across engineering, product, and operations functions.

Benefits

Starting from the interview process and continuing into your career with us, you will be working by our four Operating Principles:

• Performance: High standards, outstanding results,
• Impact: Big challenges, bigger results
• Commitment: All in, every time
• One team: One mission, shared success

Joining our team and company isn’t just about expertise; it’s about embracing uncertainty with ambition. We’re crafting world-changing solutions, fueled by a passion to redefine what’s possible. We will look for you to help create and shape the future of logistics solutions through our products, our culture and our shared vision.

You will also receive:

• Private healthcare via Bupa with 24/7 medical helpline
• Life insurance
• Income protection
• Pension: 4+% employee with option to opt into salary exchange, 5% employer
• Employee Assistance Programme - mental wellbeing, financial and legal advice/support
• 25 holidays per year
• Full meals onsite in Wallingford
• Fun team events on and offsite, snacks of all kinds in the office

AAP/EEO Statement

Dexory provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment. It prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, colour, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training