Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager – AI Scale-Up - London (Once a week) - Up to £180,000 The best engineering managers don’t stop being engineers. This role is built for them. The company is a profitable AI business valued at around $10bn, with 500+ people and a place among the Top 50 companies to watch on the Pre-IPO Watchlist. Its platform handles around 10,000 transactions per second at roughly 50ms latency, and demand keeps climbing. Now they need an Engineering Manager to lead one of the teams keeping it fast, reliable and ready for what’s next. What the job looks like You’ll lead 6–8 engineers, splitting your time roughly 70/30 between leadership and hands-on work in code, system design and technical investigations. You’ll: - Build a high-performing team through feedback, mentoring and clear career growth - Own delivery of complex, high-impact projects and set your team’s technical direction - Help design systems where throughput and milliseconds really matter - Embed strong practices in scalability, reliability, testing and performance - Influence strategy and priorities alongside senior engineering and product leaders What you’ll bring - Experience managing teams of around 6–8 engineers as an Engineering Manager or similar - A strong engineering background, and the appetite to stay hands-on - Experience with high-throughput applications or distributed systems (essential) - A deep grasp of scalability, latency, reliability, concurrency and system design - A track record with production systems at significant scale - Strong programming skills in Go or another modern backend language - The judgement to make sound technical calls and the leadership to bring people with you The package - Salary up to £180,000, depending on experience - Real influence over architecture, engineering culture and technical strategy - Hybrid working, with the London office roughly once every two weeks, or more if you’d like - If you want to lead people and still shape the technology at a profitable company heading towards IPO, get in touch for a confidential conversation.