About us
We are champions of rail, inspired to build a greener, more sustainable future of travel. Trainline enables millions of travellers to find and book the best value tickets across carriers, fares, and journey options through our highly rated mobile app, website, and B2B partner channels.
Great journeys start with Trainline 🚄
Now Europe’s number 1 downloaded rail app, with over 125 million monthly visits and £5.9 billion in annual ticket sales, we collaborate with 270+ rail and coach companies in over 40 countries. We want to create a world where travel is as simple, seamless, eco-friendly and affordable as it should be.
Today, we're a FTSE 250 company driven by our incredible team of over 1,000 Trainliners from 50+ nationalities, based across London, Paris, Barcelona, Milan, Edinburgh and Madrid. With our focus on growth in the UK and Europe, now is the perfect time to join us on this high-speed journey.
As and Engineering Manager at Trainline you will...🚄
Be the manager for your team, constantly supporting them with their career development through coaching and performance management, ensuring they are all engaged and understand how their work contributes to the wider Trainline strategy
Engage in technical deliverables, such as features, application monitoring, and bug fixing - although spending less time writing code than engineers
Manage hiring, interviews, and onboarding of any new team members
Be responsible for identifying bottlenecks in the process and roadblocks to success for your team and clearing these to ensure this success
Work with Product to pick the high-value projects to work on and keep your team focused on these projects
Own the team’s technical roadmap, negotiate with Product Managers to ensure technical projects are prioritised alongside product features
Work with Product to manage project scope, ensure the technical deliverables are met, and communicate delivery progress clearly and frequently to all stakeholders
Identify areas of improvement such as strategic tech debt, and more advanced/efficient technologies that will underpin Trainline growth plans
We'd love to hear from you if you...🔍
Are a team leader with proven line management experience delivering complex projects successfully
Love developing people and have experience growing engineering teams
Can inspire your direct reports and create a strong trust-based relationship with them
Thrive in a diverse, open, and collaborative environment
Have great communication skills
Are proactive, focused, supportive, honest, and a team player
Have a passion to learn new skills
Are a problem solver who can apply their skills to technical issues
Advocate for the use of Agile development practices
Advocate for best testing practices
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Enjoy fantastic perks like private healthcare & dental insurance, a generous work from abroad policy, 2-for-1 share purchase plans, an EV Scheme to further reduce carbon emissions, extra festive time off, and excellent family-friendly benefits.
We prioritise career growth with clear career paths, transparent pay bands, personal learning budgets, and regular learning days. Jump on board and supercharge your career from day one!
We're operate a hybrid model to work and ask that Trainliners work from the office a minimum of 60% of their time over a 12-week period. We also have a 28-day Work from Abroad policy.
Our values represent the things that matter most to us and what we live and breathe everyday, in everything we do:
💭 Think Big - We're building the future of rail
✔️ Own It - We focus on every customer, partner and journey
🤝 Travel Together - We're one team
♻️ Do Good - We make a positive impact
We know that having a diverse team makes us better and helps us succeed. And we mean all forms of diversity - gender, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, nationality and diversity of thought. That's why we're committed to creating inclusive places to work, where everyone belongs and differences are valued and celebrated.
Interested in finding out more about what it's like to work at Trainline? Why not check us out on LinkedIn, Instagram and Glassdoor!
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Trainline London, England Office
3rd Floor, 120 Holborn, London, United Kingdom, EC1N 2TD
