Senior Engineering Manager

Omnea is the agentic operating system for procurement.

Procurement touches every pound a business spends, yet requests still stall for weeks and approvals get lost in inboxes. Our AI-first platform changes that: our agents capture requests, route approvals, onboard suppliers, flag risk and track every renewal, while anyone in the business can ask a question and get an answer grounded in their own company’s data. Buying becomes painless for everyone, procurement gets a seat at the table, and our customers have saved more than 100,000 hours of manual work so far.

Companies like Spotify, PayPal, T. Rowe Price, JustEat, Adyen and S&P Global run procurement on Omnea. We’re backed by $75M from Khosla Ventures, Insight Partners and Accel, and we’ve been named the UK’s number one startup in the Startups 100, ranked 11th on Sifted’s 2026 list of Europe’s fastest-growing companies, and recognised as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies.

Talent density matters more to us than almost anything else. We keep the bar high in every team, so everyone here has real ownership and real impact. Our team is full of former founders and operators who’ve scaled unicorns, and we’re looking for people who want to do the best work of their careers alongside them.

Find out more about the team and life at Omnea here.

We're looking for an ambitious and talented Senior Engineering Manager to join Omnea, the UK's #1 Startup in 2026, as part of our Engineering leadership team.

As we grow from tens to hundreds of enterprise customers and through 10x revenue growth in the next 2-3 years, you'll play a crucial role in building and leading the best Engineering function in its category. You'll be responsible for multiple teams, ensuring we ship high-quality solutions while maintaining the velocity a fast-growing environment demands. You'll operate with high autonomy, collaborating closely with other EMs, Team Leads, and Product to drive real impact.

Build and lead high-performing teams:

• Lead multiple engineering teams, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement

• Drive engineering best practices, quality standards, and high performance

• Mentor and develop engineers, helping them grow their careers and impact

• Collaborate with Product, Design, Team Leads and other key stakeholders on team structures and deliveries to ensure optimal outcomes

Drive technical excellence:

• Implement and refine engineering processes that scale

• Facilitate architectural decisions that impact multiple teams

• Champion quality improvements across teams while maintaining high velocity

• Ensure robust monitoring, observability, and incident response processes

Shape technical product strategy:

• Partner with Product leadership to define and execute our technical roadmap

• Balance technical debt, feature development, and system reliability with other deliverables

• Ensure customer feedback drives technical priorities

Teams and products you might end up working on:

• Accounting and Goods Receipting - ensuring procurement and finance teams have the right information and tools to operate accurately, automatically, and at scale

• Insights and Reporting - deep, complex custom visualisations bringing together AI and data to surface meaningful insights and context across the platform

• Sourcing - building the tools that find the right suppliers, shape the right deals, and make sure the best option is already in play before a request is even created

• Workflow Orchestration - the configurable backbone of our systems that accurately model company operations, underpinning a single source of truth

• And many more areas we’re actively starting or expanding upon!

Leadership Experience:

• You have 8+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years managing engineering teams

• You've successfully managed multiple teams simultaneously (typically 2-3 teams / 12-20 engineers)

• You've demonstrated success in fast-moving, ambiguous environments, particularly in rapid-growth periods

• Ideally, you have experience as an Engineering Manager at multiple companies, including at least one successful Series A+ SaaS company

Technical Excellence:

• Strong technical background with hands-on experience in modern web technologies

• Deep understanding of distributed systems, cloud architecture (preferably AWS), and scalability challenges

• Experience with our stack (TypeScript, React, AWS Serverless) is a plus, but not required

Track Record of Impact:

• Strong track record of successful project delivery in fast-paced environments

• Proven history of improving team velocity and quality

• Experience scaling engineering teams through rapid growth

• Experience implementing engineering processes that scale effectively at pace

• Experience working directly with customers and translating their needs into technical solutions

Leadership Style:

• You're data-driven but know when to trust intuition

• You're comfortable making decisions with incomplete information

• You excel at collaboration and influence across teams and stakeholders

• You have a track record of growing and developing engineering talent

Nice to haves that really stand out to us:

• Track record of successful product launches in B2B SaaS

• Experience with procurement / finance systems

• History of contributions to engineering communities

You can learn more about Engineering at Omnea and our hiring process via our R&D Candidate Hub here.

At Omnea, we embrace diversity. To build a product that's loved by everyone, we're best served by a team with all sorts of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn't quite match the full job spec! And regardless of your race, religion, colour, gender, or anything else! If you think you could be a good fit for Omnea, please reach out.

• We offer competitive geo-localised benefits, and you can check out our UK Benefits Package here and our US Benefits Package here.

• We work Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays in-person at our offices. At this early stage of our company life-cycle it's important to us that we get this together-time, and you can read more about why we believe this is a winning move here

• We're commercial, ambitious and we don't pretend otherwise! We're actively seeking folks looking to make the most of a career-defining opportunity, with the hunger to be part of building something really impressive. You can see our values here and our Omnea Future Founder's fund here!

• We sometimes use AI note-takers to help us transcribe interview notes, so we can be more present in your interview. If you'd like to opt out of us using automatic transcribers, please note this in the free text field in your application, otherwise we'll take your application as confirmation that you're happy for us to use notetakers (whether added to video calls or in the background).

We are proud to be recognised for both our culture and product, and we are just getting started. Join us as we grow!