Technical Lead Manager — UK & EU (AI Finance)

Cleo; Greater London; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health insurance

Dental and vision

Job summary

Cleo is hiring a Technical Lead Manager to lead a cross-functional squad of 4–5 engineers, balancing hands-on technical work with people management. You’ll collaborate with Product, Design, Data, and other tech leaders to deliver products that improve users’ financial health.

You’ll define the squad’s technical direction, run regular 1:1s, provide actionable feedback, and stay close to the code in a Ruby on Rails monolith, using testing, observability, A/B testing and feature flags to ship

Qualifications

• Solid experience with Ruby on Rails, building data models, APIs, and business logic services in a production monolith.
• Experience leading technical delivery within a product squad or engineering team, helping shape and scope work through to delivery.
• Experience line managing and coaching engineers, including giving feedback, supporting development and navigating performance conversations.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a squad of 4–5 engineers, balancing hands-on technical contribution with line management, coaching and support for individual growth.
• Partner with Product Managers, Staff Engineers and other technical leaders to shape a clear, feasible roadmap and deliver against squad OKRs.
• Define and steer the technical direction of your squad, helping the team make pragmatic trade-offs across speed, quality, scalability and long-term maintainability.
• Create the conditions for effective delivery by providing clarity, unblocking progress and establishing healthy, sustainable ways of working.
• Run regular 1:1s, provide clear and actionable feedback, and support engineers through development, performance conversations and growth planning.
• Stay close to the code and contribute hands‑on to our Ruby on Rails monolith, using practices such as automated testing, observability, A/B testing and feature flags.
• Collaborate across Engineering, Product, Design and Data to deliver and iterate on features that have a meaningful impact on our users’ financial health.

Skills

Ruby on Rails

Leadership

People management

Agile methodologies

Observability

A/B testing

Feature flags

Tools

Rails monolith

PostgreSQL

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

Cleo is hiring a Technical Lead Manager to lead a cross-functional squad of 4–5 engineers, balancing hands-on technical work with people management. You’ll collaborate with Product, Design, Data, and other tech leaders to deliver products that improve users’ financial health.

You’ll define the squad’s technical direction, run regular 1:1s, provide actionable feedback, and stay close to the code in a Ruby on Rails monolith, using testing, observability, A/B testing and feature flags to ship