Platform Engineering Manager

Dexory; Oxford; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare via Bupa

Life insurance

Income protection

Pension scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

25 holidays per year

Full meals onsite

Fun team events

Job summary

Dexory in Wallingford is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a growing team of platform engineers. This hybrid role involves managing projects related to internal tooling and infrastructure for our autonomous robots. Candidates should have experience in engineering management, platform engineering, and a passion for team development. The position offers robust benefits including private healthcare, life insurance, and 25 holidays per year.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as an Engineering Manager or similar role in a tech company.
• Strong background in platform engineering or complex technical domain.
• Ability to coach and develop engineers across various career stages.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of platform engineers for internal tooling and infrastructure.
• Manage multi-system teams working with various technology stacks.
• Framing technical work in terms of business value for stakeholders.

Skills

Engineering Management

Platform Engineering

People Development

Communication Skills

Stakeholder Management

DevOps Engineering

Tools

Go

Python

TypeScript

React

Linux

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

PostgreSQL

AWS

CI/CD

Job description

Location: Wallingford - Oxfordshire (Hybrid) – about one day per week on site.

Employment type: Permanent

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

We’re currently recruiting for an 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 robots.

Offices based in Wallingford, Oxford but on a hybrid basis (about one day per week on site) either commutable by car or about 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.

Operating Principles

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

Benefits

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

Equal Employment Opportunity

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.