Senior Engineering Lead, Applied AI Platform

Flow Engineering; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Flow Engineering is looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a team building the core of our platform. This is our first dedicated engineering management hire, and you will own delivery for a team of engineers while staying hands on with coding.

You will report to our head of engineering and collaborate closely with product, design, and our forward deployed engineers. You will onboard, provide feedback, and drive career development; own end-to-end product execution, review architecture,

Qualifications

• 8+ years developing production software, including designing, testing, and operating services at scale in a cloud environment.
• 2+ years managing engineers, ideally at an early-stage company or with little existing process scaffolding.
• Track record shipping software that enterprise customers depend on, with a clear understanding of what that changes about how you build.
• Still hands on with coding
• Direct communicator who is able to give difficult feedback
• Comfortable working in a high-ownership, fast-paced environment where experiments and iteration are the norm.

Responsibilities

• Manage and grow a team of engineers, owning onboarding, feedback, and career development.
• Own product execution end to end, from scoping with customers through ship, measure, and iterate.
• Stay technical. Review code, make architecture calls, and pick up meaningful work when a project needs it.
• Help establish engineering best practices
• Work directly with customers. Our users are systems and requirements engineers at hardware companies with a high bar
• Partner with recruiting to build the team
• Help set direction on how AI shows up in the product, working with engineers building agentic workflows and LLM-powered features.

Skills

Leadership

Hands-on coding

Communication

Cloud/DevOps

Code review

Team coaching

Tools

TypeScript/Node.js

Python

LLM APIs

Job description

Flow Engineering is looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a team building the core of our platform. This is our first dedicated engineering management hire, and you will own delivery for a team of engineers while staying hands on with coding.

You will report to our head of engineering and collaborate closely with product, design, and our forward deployed engineers. You will onboard, provide feedback, and drive career development; own end-to-end product execution, review architecture,