Senior Engineering Manager

Clearer; Leicester; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Private medical insurance with Vitalty

Birthday off

Volunteer days

Job summary

clearer.io is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead multiple engineering teams in Leicester, shaping AI-native software delivery for thousands of eCommerce merchants worldwide.

You'll set long-term technical strategy, own roadmaps for high-traffic systems, and drive AI maturity, security and cost controls while growing leaders and fostering a culture of learning. Hybrid work with three days in the city and two days remote.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software engineering with leadership experience.
• Degree in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent.
• Experience scaling organizations across multiple teams.
• Knowledge of large-scale system design and cloud-native tech.
• Hands-on AI tooling experience with cost, security and quality tradeoffs.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple engineering teams and their managers to continual improvement.
• Set long-term technical strategy with architecture and exec leadership.
• Own roadmaps for distributed, high-traffic systems with resilience.
• Advance AI maturity and enforce development standards and controls.
• Manage AI tooling spend and close tooling gaps that block progress.
• Oversee cross-team dependencies and handoffs as workflows evolve.
• Lead hiring, performance, and leadership development.
• Ensure security and data governance for AI tools.

Skills

Engineering leadership

AI tooling & practices

Large-scale systems

Budget & resourcing

Hiring & people development

Strategy & roadmaps

Cross-team collaboration

Security & compliance

Education

BS in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Cloud-native architectures

Observability tools

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Engineering has changed, and we're changing with it. We're looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead multiple teams into AI-native, agentic software delivery - building products used by thousands of eCommerce merchants worldwide. We're not hiring for where engineering was. We're hiring for where it's going.

your impact

You'll lead several engineering teams and their managers, and shape how we build software as AI reshapes the craft. From spec to delivery, you'll move us toward agentic and multi-agent workflows - with the quality, security and cost controls to back them up. We build on and around Shopify, which moves just as fast, so staying current isn't a nice-to-have here. It's the job.

You'll work from our Leicester city centre office three days a week, with two days remote.

what you'll do:

• Lead and grow multiple engineering teams and their managers, building a culture of continuous learning and technical excellence.

• Set long-term technical strategy with the architecture team and senior leadership, so engineering moves in step with company goals.

• Own roadmaps for complex, distributed, high-traffic systems - with resilience, observability and performance built in at scale.

• Raise AI maturity across your teams against our maturity model, moving from prompt, context and harness practices to agentic loops and multi-agent workflows. Keep building with new tools yourself so you stay sharp.

• Drive adoption of our AI development standards, including quality controls for AI-generated code. Manage AI tooling spend against the value it delivers, and elevate tooling gaps that block progress.

• Manage cross-team dependencies and handoffs, especially as agentic workflows change how work moves between teams.

• Lead hiring, performance and leadership development - growing your managers' AI fluency and recognising progress in performance and promotion decisions.

• Keep us secure and compliant, including governing what data AI tools and models can access.

what you'll bring

• 8+ years in software engineering, including 4+ years in leadership, ideally managing managers.

• A degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent experience.

• A track record of scaling engineering organisations and landing new practices across multiple teams.

• Deep knowledge of large-scale system design, microservices and cloud-native architecture.

• Recent hands-on experience building working apps or tools with AI development tooling, and a clear view of its cost, security and quality tradeoffs.

• Experience balancing tech debt, reliability and feature delivery.

• Experience managing budgets, headcount and resourcing, including AI tooling and token spend.

• The influence to shape executive decisions and product strategy, and the coaching skills to grow strong leaders.

Nice to have :

• Experience leading agentic workflows

• eCommerce experience, especially with Shopify

life at clearer.io

eCommerce is crowded, noisy and increasingly complex. At clearer.io, we're built for a different outcome: clarity you can act on.

We connect to the stack a merchant already uses. Our AI agents enrich their catalogue, learn from their reviews and customers, and put that intelligence to work inside the tools they already have - so their products get found, trusted and chosen by shoppers and AI, without replatforming. We do this across our products: Clearer, Boost Commerce, REVIEWS.io and Influence, used by thousands of merchants worldwide.

We're a global team with offices in Australia, the UK, Germany, Vietnam and the US, backed for the long term by PSG Equity and Silversmith Capital Partners.

We care about doing the work properly: listening first, building second and shipping quickly where it matters. Results matter more than rhetoric.

What guides us day to day:

• Customers at the heart: we obsess over their needs so we can grow together

• Purposeful progress: we don't settle - we take initiative and embrace bold thinking

• Endless innovation: we refine, improve, and take meaningful action

• Always open: we build trust through transparency and global collaboration

clear benefits

• Private Medical Insurance with Vitality from day one - including private GP access, a 24/7 medical helpline and advanced cancer cover

• Dental, optical and hearing cover

• Mental health support - unlimited CBT (first 8 sessions without GP referral) and a confidential Employee Assistance Programme

• 20 days PTO and 6 bank holidays - plus the full week off between Christmas Eve and New Year's Day

• Hybrid working

• Your birthday off - a full paid day, just for you, every year

• Give Back Day - a paid day each year to volunteer for a cause you care about

• Bonusly peer recognition - real-time shout-outs tied to our values, with points that convert to real rewards

• Clearer Together - each quarter, one employee who exemplifies our values wins a fully-funded 5-night trip to one of our global offices (Sydney, Berlin, Leicester, Irvine or Ho Chi Minh City)

• Stopover - travelling near one of our offices? Once a year we'll fund a day with the local team

a fair shot for everyone

We're committed to a fair and inclusive hiring experience. Hiring decisions at clearer.io are based on skills, experience and role requirements - nothing else. If you need any adjustments during the interview process, just tell us; it won't affect your application.