Top Engineering Manager Jobs in London

Lead and grow a full-stack engineering team building Mural’s AI-native Compose product. Own end-to-end delivery, architecture, code quality, reliability, experimentation, and roadmap execution in partnership with Product and Design. Hire, coach, and manage engineers while maintaining a hands-on technical role through code reviews and architecture decisions. Guide production LLM feature development, including evaluation, quality monitoring, and cost management, within a remote-first culture.

Owns people management and engineering processes for a 30–50-person organization. Responsibilities include engineering recruitment, performance reviews, progression and calibration, delivery metrics, standards improvement, developer experience, cloud and SaaS management, security processes, and technical onboarding. The role partners closely with the CTO and tech leads while focusing on team effectiveness rather than technical architecture or coding.

Leads a cross-functional engineering team building machine learning and AI-powered payment intelligence products. Owns product quality, delivery, operations, technical standards, prioritization, experimentation, and stakeholder expectations. Manages engineers, supports hiring and career development, and collaborates with product managers, designers, data scientists, and commercial teams. Contributes technical expertise across backend and frontend development while fostering reliable, well-tested systems and a strong culture of experimentation.

Lead and coach a team of 10+ senior and Staff machine learning engineers focused on audio, video, and text content understanding. Set technical strategy, guide modeling and retrieval decisions, deliver high-priority cross-functional initiatives, and contribute hands-on as needed. Shape long-term audio understanding expertise, promote practical AI use in engineering workflows, and partner with product, design, research, and engineering leaders.

Manage and coach engineering teams, support career development, maintain team health, and partner with product and design to ensure fast, predictable delivery. The role involves implementing lightweight processes, removing execution bottlenecks, supporting hiring and onboarding, and fostering a high-trust, autonomous engineering culture. Candidates need engineering management experience, strong delivery instincts, a people-first mindset, and sufficient technical background to understand architectural trade-offs.

Lead and manage a cross-functional engineering team to deliver and scale customer-facing products. Own architecture, delivery, reliability, observability, and production outcomes. Coach engineers, run reviews, improve processes and tooling, and drive technical decisions across frontend, backend, APIs, databases, integrations, and infrastructure.

Lead and manage a cross-functional engineering team to design, build, and operate production systems. Own technical architecture, delivery, reliability, and processes. Coach engineers, run reviews, resolve incidents, and drive product outcomes while balancing speed, scalability, and quality.

Lead and manage a cross-functional engineering team to deliver reliable, scalable wealth-management products. Drive architecture, code quality, observability, incident response, and engineering culture while coaching engineers and improving processes to increase delivery speed and reliability.

Manage an engineering team building reusable infrastructure platforms and core distributed systems. Architect highly available services, review designs, plan roadmaps, optimize cloud costs, and enforce deployment standards across AWS and GCP. Lead planning, retrospectives, on-call practices, and reliability initiatives involving SRE, CI/CD, chaos engineering, and incident analysis. Develop engineering strategy, mentor senior engineers, and influence platform decisions across product teams.

Provides technical leadership across hard-services engineering and facilities operations for multiple properties. Oversees mechanical and electrical systems, statutory compliance, asset management, CAFM data, contractors, operational resilience, sustainability, audits, risk management, and engineering performance. Leads investigations, technical governance, lifecycle planning, and improvement initiatives while managing engineering teams, stakeholders, service agreements, training, and compliance programs.

Lead two software engineering teams of approximately 10–12 engineers, supporting development, performance, delivery, and professional growth. Drive reliable product delivery, improve engineering processes, remove blockers, and promote accountability, psychological safety, and technical excellence. Collaborate with Product, Support, Delivery, and Engineering leadership to align roadmaps and deliver scalable financial-crime detection solutions. Engage in technical discussions without coding day to day.

Lead multidisciplinary engineering teams delivering complex nuclear projects across design, implementation, commissioning, life extension, and decommissioning. Act as Architect Engineer by developing engineering strategies, resolving technical challenges, managing interfaces and stakeholders, identifying risks, and supporting safety case alignment. Coordinate delivery against time, cost, quality, codes, and standards while supporting project resourcing, financial management, change control, and client outcomes.

Oversee engineering operations and bus maintenance at a London garage, ensuring vehicle reliability, safety, compliance, and TfL standards. Diagnose complex mechanical and electrical issues, lead engineers and technicians, manage stock and budgets, and support emerging technologies including hybrid and electric vehicles. The role requires engineering leadership, strong bus-maintenance expertise, health and safety knowledge, and relevant transport and professional qualifications.

Leads one engineering team while co-owning the product roadmap with Product. Responsible for delivery predictability, technical quality, architecture, SLOs, operational health, hiring, budgeting, and engineer development. The role remains hands-on through code reading, pull-request reviews, pairing, and technical trade-off decisions. It also drives AI tooling adoption and ensures the team ships reliably while maintaining strong engineering growth and product alignment.

Lead and grow an engineering team responsible for Affirm’s international identity platform, including KYC, user lifecycle management, and identity decisioning. Own technical strategy, multi-quarter roadmaps, architecture, reliability, availability, incident response, and operational improvements. Drive major consumer-facing initiatives, cross-functional alignment, and technical execution across Product, Design, Analytics, and Engineering teams while developing engineers and maintaining a high-trust culture.

Lead and grow a small product engineering pod while spending ~70% hands-on building scalable Python backend systems. Set technical direction, mentor engineers, drive delivery from design to deployment and monitoring, act as L2 escalation for production issues, and collaborate with Product, Infrastructure, and Support.

Manages a globally distributed team of Assigned Support Engineers serving enterprise customers. Responsibilities include hiring, coaching, performance management, escalation leadership, customer recovery planning, cross-functional coordination, KPI tracking, capacity planning, process improvement, automation, and communicating customer outcomes and ROI. The role requires strong technical knowledge, including Linux administration and web application concepts, plus experience supporting production-critical environments.

Leads and develops an engineering team responsible for a customer-facing platform, internal tooling, and portal. Owns front-end engineering, platform integration, delivery prioritization, scalability, reliability, and quality improvements. Partners with Product, Implementation, and business stakeholders to deliver customer-focused solutions, improve the sandbox-to-implementation journey, and apply AI technologies to engineering practices and platform capabilities. Also manages third-party technology partners and supports strategic projects across the UK engineering team.

Leads a global data engineering team and drives delivery of the data roadmap. The role combines people management with hands-on work integrating local systems into global data solutions. Responsibilities include coaching engineers, ensuring high-quality delivery, evolving data architecture, and collaborating with engineers and stakeholders. Required expertise includes AWS services, data warehousing platforms, ETL tools, Python, and data modeling.

Leads the Communications Platform engineering team, building scalable, highly available communication services across email, SMS, WhatsApp, and other channels. Responsibilities include team growth, roadmap and delivery ownership, architecture leadership, production stability, CI/CD, observability, hiring, cross-functional collaboration, and responsible AI adoption. The role also oversees the public website and requires experience with distributed systems, AWS, APIs, multi-vendor integrations, fintech, and regulated financial services.

Drive software sales growth across China’s offshore wind and offshore oil and gas markets. Build pipelines, win new customers, expand and renew existing accounts, manage full sales cycles, maintain Salesforce forecasts, and develop strategic customer relationships. Communicate technical value, identify market opportunities, collaborate with global teams, and support recurring revenue growth. Regular travel within China and fluent Mandarin and English are required.

Own day-to-day engineering delivery for a live SaaS product, ensuring committed work ships on time and meets quality standards. Lead a team of five to ten engineers, manage capacity, estimation, technical risk, production operations, code quality, releases, hiring, and performance. Work closely with the Product Owner, Delivery Manager, CTO, and CEO. Remain hands-on, writing code in the Next.js, React, TypeScript, Laravel, and PHP stack while modernizing a legacy CodeIgniter platform on AWS.

Lead the engineering function on a remote consulting mission by setting technical direction, managing and mentoring engineers, driving the roadmap, overseeing complex delivery, improving engineering practices, and partnering with product and business stakeholders. The role requires hands-on technical leadership, architectural judgment, agile expertise, and evaluation of emerging technologies including cloud, AI, and blockchain.

Lead the engineering function for a growing technology company on a renewable consulting mission. Responsibilities include setting the engineering roadmap, managing and mentoring engineers, guiding architecture and technical decisions, leading complex projects, improving engineering practices, and collaborating with product and business stakeholders. The role requires hands-on technical involvement, strong software engineering expertise, and the ability to evaluate emerging technologies including cloud, AI, and blockchain. French fluency and strong English communication skills are mandatory.

Lead and mentor cross-functional engineering teams to deliver scalable, resilient cloud-native systems. Partner with product to define technical solutions, manage technical debt, hire and grow engineers, and drive engineering best practices. Hands-on leadership with strong frontend and distributed systems experience.