Tech Lead Manager UK & EU, Hands-on Leader

Cleo; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health insurance

1-month sabbatical after 4 years

Learning & development platform

Pension or retirement contributions

Location-specific leave entitlements

Job summary

Cleo is hiring a Technical Lead Manager in the United Kingdom to guide a cross-functional squad of engineers. You’ll balance hands-on coding with people management to deliver features that improve users’ financial health.

You’ll partner with Product, Design, Data and other tech leaders, steering technical direction and ensuring scalable solutions while mentoring engineers and maintaining high standards in testing and observability.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading a product squad or engineering team.
• Solid hands-on technical delivery with Ruby on Rails and monoliths.
• Experience coaching engineers and handling performance conversations.

Responsibilities

• Lead a squad of 4-5 engineers with hands-on tech contribution and line management.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, Data, and other tech leaders to shape roadmap and OKRs.
• Define technical direction and balance speed, quality, and long-term maintainability.
• Create conditions for effective delivery with clear priorities and healthy processes.
• Run regular 1:1s and provide actionable feedback for growth.
• Contribute hands-on to the Rails monolith and promote good testing and observability.

Skills

Ruby on Rails

Leadership

People management

Agile

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

PostgreSQL

Ruby on Rails

Job description

Cleo is hiring a Technical Lead Manager in the United Kingdom to guide a cross-functional squad of engineers. You’ll balance hands-on coding with people management to deliver features that improve users’ financial health.

You’ll partner with Product, Design, Data and other tech leaders, steering technical direction and ensuring scalable solutions while mentoring engineers and maintaining high standards in testing and observability.