Top Engineering Manager Jobs in London

Lead a team building backend systems for business expense management (receipts, expense reports, bookkeeping, card products). Own the technical roadmap, drive architecture and implementation, mentor engineers, collaborate with product and cross-functional squads, and apply LLM technologies to automate document scanning, categorization, and reconciliation.

The Engineering Manager will lead a Data Replay & Recovery Team to build a data replay application, improve service efficiency, and design a data platform for processing large datasets.

Lead and grow an observability engineering team to design, build, and operate large-scale distributed tracing and metrics platforms. Drive architecture, design reviews, capacity planning, POCs, CI/CD and resilience practices, and collaborate across teams to enable a full DevOps model.

Lead GitLab’s Build team and roadmap, overseeing systems that convert source code into secure, verified, distributable artifacts. Own build platforms, dependency management, CI templates, supply-chain security, build consistency, observability, and self-service onboarding across delivery targets including Omnibus and CNG. Partner across teams to improve reliability, reduce coordination overhead, and support four-nines service objectives. Manage a distributed, high-performing engineering team and guide architecture, technical strategy, operational excellence, and complex project delivery.

The Engineering Manager will lead a team to deliver high-quality software, balancing delivery and operational excellence while fostering team growth and adopting AI-native workflows.

Lead and grow a team of Specialist Sales Engineers across EMEA to support enterprise sales — recruiting, enabling, and providing technical leadership. Partner with sales, product, and customers to design and present cloud data management, backup, and cyber recovery solutions. Act as trusted technical advisor, drive technical programs, and help win large, complex opportunities.

As an Engineering Manager, you'll lead a team of backend engineers, manage their performance, and drive the development of compliant onboarding features while collaborating with cross-functional partners in a Fintech environment.

Lead a team that integrates third-party and modular features into GitLab's Dedicated SaaS platform. Ensure high availability (99.99%+), drive operational excellence, automate toil, own incident management, prioritize via data, recruit and develop engineers, and use AI to boost productivity and guide technical strategy.

Lead the full‑stack Switchboard team owning the Dedicated tenant management control panel. Hire and develop engineers, partner with Product and Design, set technical direction, ensure cross‑functional delivery, drive quality/security/performance improvements, and operate large‑scale distributed services with strong SLO and operational excellence.

Manage and coach a regional Sales Engineering team to qualify and close opportunities. Lead technical customer engagements, support demos and POCs, recruit and onboard talent, collaborate with Product, Support, and Enablement, and run performance reviews and development plans.

Lead the architecture, delivery, and operational excellence of Wise’s high-throughput Risk API and risk assessment platform. Manage and grow a team of at least five engineers, establish engineering standards, define API contracts and data governance, ensure immutable risk evaluation logging and regulatory auditability, and partner with Product, Financial Crime, and Engineering stakeholders. Own platform resilience, availability, latency, scalability, and the technical roadmap for this mission-critical service.

Lead and mentor a team of software engineers, overseeing the implementation and optimization of enterprise systems while driving digital transformation initiatives. Collaborate with stakeholders to enhance system efficiency and ensure quality delivery.

Lead a platform engineering squad to deliver scalable, cloud-native solutions. Drive technical vision, engineering standards, incident response, and adoption of AI-assisted development and automation. Coach engineers, manage delivery roadmaps, ensure operational stability, and align technical work with business and regulatory requirements.

Lead and develop a team of ~8-10 software engineers, owning delivery, career growth, architecture decisions, and roadmap planning with Product. Drive recruitment, performance reviews, processes for scalable, highly available features, and promote AI-augmented development workflows to improve efficiency and product outcomes.

Manage a technical team focused on Git and Git-related infrastructure, balancing upstream open-source work with GitLab priorities. Drive long-horizon scalability, performance, and architectural projects while fostering technical rigor, ownership, mentoring, and strong asynchronous communication across distributed teams.

Lead and mentor engineering teams to design, build, test, and operate secure, cloud-native applications. Drive technical decisions, produce high-quality Java/React code, advocate SDLC best practices, and ensure operational resiliency and delivery.

Lead technical and people aspects of building services for The Crown Estates contract. Oversee mechanical and electrical strategies, asset and CAFM data management, HV/LV compliance, BMS/controls and net-zero initiatives. Manage SLAs, subcontractors, training, audits, incident RCAs, and provide technical support to site teams while ensuring statutory compliance and continuous improvement.

Lead and grow a team of ML engineers to build and operate production ML and LLM systems—real-time inference APIs, batch data products, and agentic AI—ensuring deployment, monitoring, CI/CD, reproducibility, and measurable business impact.

Lead a multidisciplinary robotic hardware team to design, integrate and deliver production-ready robotic picking systems. Provide technical direction, mentor engineers, collaborate with product, project and software teams, oversee prototyping and production handover, and drive continuous improvement and quality in hardware development.

Lead a multidisciplinary robotic hardware team to design, integrate and deliver robotic picking solutions from concept to production. Provide hands-on technical direction, collaborate with product, project and software teams, drive continuous improvement, rapid prototyping, and mentor engineers.

Manage a cross-functional engineering team building GitLab Duo Chat's AI-powered features. Define requirements with product and UX, contribute to architecture for scalable agentic AI, drive delivery and roadmap execution, improve testing, observability, performance, and coach engineers to foster an inclusive, high-performing team.

Lead a cross-functional Financial Services engineering squad building reliable distributed systems for DeFi, treasury management, and security and compliance. Own delivery, technical quality, service reliability, roadmap execution, hiring, coaching, performance management, and team health. Partner with Product and other teams to establish operating rhythms, OKRs, SLOs, error budgets, on-call practices, and pragmatic trade-offs across roadmap work, technical debt, and operations.

Lead front-end engineering teams and advise clients on digital product and platform engineering capabilities. Drive engineering across large agile transformation programs, delivering web and mobile products using modern frameworks, cloud integrations, APIs, generative AI, CI/CD, and SRE practices. Collaborate with product, design, data, and engineering teams; mentor staff; improve delivery speed and quality; develop technology offerings; and provide engineering thought leadership and strategic client guidance.

Lead a payments engineering squad of 3–7 backend and iOS engineers. Own team delivery, wellbeing, performance, career growth, roadmap execution, technical standards, and cross-functional collaboration. Guide payment architecture and integrations across wallets, withdrawals, refunds, seller onboarding, tax capture, and marketplace transactions while contributing hands-on technical expertise and fostering an inclusive, high-performing engineering culture.

Manage a 3–6 engineer Search Retrieval team, delivering search features and experiments that improve purchasing metrics. Own team wellbeing, performance, career growth, roadmap execution, and engineering standards. Collaborate with Product, Design, Marketing, Analytics, Machine Learning, and Data Science partners while contributing strategically and remaining technically engaged across front-end and back-end development. Foster inclusive, high-performing team culture and make data-informed decisions amid changing priorities.