Top Engineering Manager Jobs in London

Lead a distributed team responsible for nTop’s modeling and rendering technology. Coach senior engineers, structure concurrent technical workstreams, improve development velocity, partner with Product Management on execution, and guide modernization of the rendering pipeline and transition from desktop software to AI-assisted, multi-surface products. The role requires technical fluency in graphics, geometry, computational math, C++, and GPU rendering, along with experience managing distributed engineering teams.

Build and lead the Platform Desktop Engineering team, owning service availability, security, performance, support, roadmap, provisioning, image builds, automation, monitoring, hardware lifecycle, capacity, and budget. The role requires hands-on Linux expertise, production service ownership, enterprise security judgment, stakeholder management, and collaboration across infrastructure, security, identity, support, and HR teams.

Lead the Identity Platform engineering team, developing scalable authentication and authorization services for human, service, and bot identities. Responsibilities include team growth, roadmap and delivery ownership, architecture leadership for AWS and BigQuery-based distributed systems, operational reliability, cross-functional collaboration, hiring, and responsible AI adoption. The role requires hands-on software engineering credibility, identity and access management experience, fintech exposure, and strong leadership and communication skills.

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.

Leads a six-person investment engineering team delivering and supporting front-office investment applications. Partners with stakeholders to define requirements, designs robust technical solutions, performs root-cause analysis, and implements improvements across applications and services. The role includes hands-on coding, code reviews, architecture decisions, responsible use of AI development tools, and collaboration with global engineering teams. Experience with investment management, trading systems, data flows, C#, Python, SQL, and modern data platforms is required or preferred.

Lead and grow Preply’s Data Platform engineering team, defining the Lakehouse, ingestion, governance, data quality, and reliability strategy. Partner with Analytics, ML, Data Science, Product, Security, and Engineering leaders to prioritize platform investments, guide architecture, improve operational excellence, and deliver trusted data products. Responsibilities include coaching engineers, hiring, setting SLOs, managing incidents, driving execution, and evolving team structure and technical standards.

Leads a distributed engineering team across hiring, development, performance, delivery, and technical quality. Partners with product management on roadmaps, manages dependencies, drives planning and retrospectives, and oversees reliability, observability, testing, incidents, and operational follow-up. Contributes to engineering-wide standards and process improvements while developing engineers and ensuring the team delivers meaningful, maintainable outcomes.

Lead Salesforce and Node.js architecture, scalability, performance, security, and engineering excellence for enterprise applications. Manage and mentor a team of 10–15 engineers, set goals, conduct one-on-ones, hire talent, remove blockers, and partner with Product and Engineering leadership. Drive technical direction, integrations, deployment processes, developer experience, and reliable roadmap delivery across Salesforce and AWS-based services.

Leads the Egress engineering team responsible for Cloudflare’s network connectivity infrastructure. Responsibilities include hiring and mentoring distributed software engineers, shaping technical vision and roadmaps, evaluating distributed network infrastructure tradeoffs, overseeing production services and incident response, managing on-call rotations, resolving customer escalations, and driving reliability and automation improvements.

Lead two distributed frontend engineering squads responsible for Grafana’s frontend platform and navigation. Manage performance, hiring, team planning, coaching, delivery, technical direction, and cross-functional prioritization. Shape architecture, developer experience, accessibility, search, navigation, reliability, and multitenant capabilities. Engage customers and open-source contributors, improve engineering workflows through AI and automation, oversee operational standards, and participate in the engineering management on-call rotation.

Lead and manage a software engineering team to deliver scalable, reliable commercial trading and planning solutions. Provide technical direction, ensure operational stability, enforce engineering standards, manage vendors, and drive delivery excellence across cloud-native systems.

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.

Leads engineering teams across people, product, and technical delivery. Manages approximately 7–10 engineers, supports career development through coaching and feedback, ensures engineering excellence, partners with technical and product leaders, drives delivery outcomes, communicates with stakeholders, and contributes to organization-wide engineering practices. The role requires prior software engineering experience, strong technical judgment, delivery leadership, autonomy, and the ability to build and motivate high-performing teams.

Lead end-to-end integration of customer vehicles with an autonomous software stack. Responsibilities include vehicle feasibility assessments, mechanical and electrical system integration, low-level vehicle control interfaces, network and power systems, verification and validation, field testing, OEM coordination, and developing reusable integration tools and documentation.

Leads multidisciplinary engineering design management across infrastructure and real estate projects from concept through delivery. Responsibilities include technical assurance, constructability reviews, design interface management, consultant and contractor coordination, stakeholder liaison, and development of compliant, sustainable, maintainable solutions. The role integrates mechanical, electrical, civil, structural, and geotechnical design while managing risks, scope changes, health and safety, and project requirements.

Leads electrical and multidisciplinary design management across infrastructure and real estate projects. Responsibilities include technical assurance, constructability reviews, design interface management, consultant and contractor coordination, stakeholder liaison, regulatory compliance, and development of sustainable engineering solutions. The role oversees design delivery throughout the project lifecycle while ensuring integration, maintainability, reliability, health and safety, and client requirements.

Lead a software engineering team through cloud-native modernization, managing hiring, coaching, sprint delivery, architecture, testing, CI/CD, observability, incident response, and operational excellence. Collaborate with Product, Design, Data, SRE, and leadership to deliver reliable microservices and improve engineering culture, platform scalability, and cross-team alignment.

Leads Software Engineering, Data Engineering, and BI teams while overseeing applications, integrations, APIs, EDI, automation services, data warehouses, reporting platforms, and analytics. Drives technology initiatives, engineering standards, release processes, data governance, system reliability, stakeholder alignment, supplier relationships, and continuous improvement across business-critical platforms.

Lead end-to-end delivery of complex, cross-functional engineering and business initiatives. Develop project plans, milestones, dependencies, roadmaps, and execution strategies; manage risks and blockers; align Engineering, Product, Business, Operations, and senior stakeholders; provide progress and outcome visibility; and improve delivery processes. Requires financial-services domain knowledge, including front-, middle-, and back-office and post-trade workflows.

Leads an engineering team responsible for delivering and scaling Olo’s restaurant technology platform. Manages engineering projects, technical debt, product roadmaps, system quality, performance, and major technical escalations. The role includes hiring, mentoring, performance management, process improvement, cross-functional collaboration, stakeholder engagement, and ensuring reliable, scalable solutions aligned with business objectives.

Owns and governs engineering changes across Eurostar’s rolling stock fleet, coordinating internal teams, suppliers, Siemens, contractors, and other partners from initiation through closure. Ensures regulatory compliance, accurate technical documentation, safety management, fleet configuration control, and timely implementation. The role also manages documentation teams, monitors delivery and competency risks, maintains the Authorising Engineer framework, and supports ECM and ISO 9001 certification requirements.

Leads a remote engineering team building scalable Python and Golang microservices for Canonical’s software distribution marketplaces. Responsibilities include mentoring and developing engineers, managing delivery and expectations, shaping technical strategy and roadmaps, reviewing code, guiding architecture, maintaining engineering quality, and collaborating with product managers, architects, other teams, open-source contributors, and commercial partners.

Lead engineering teams responsible for Oracle HCM and enterprise SaaS platforms supporting recruitment, talent, learning, helpdesk, and core HR. Own technical roadmaps, partner with product and architecture leaders, drive SaaS innovation and AI opportunities, and ensure platform reliability, security, supportability, and operational excellence. The role requires deep Oracle HCM expertise, strong people leadership, stakeholder management, and experience modernizing complex business-critical technology platforms.

Manage and develop a distributed team of backend and frontend engineers working on observability collection products, including Fleet Management, Kubernetes Monitoring Helm Chart, and Instrumentation Hub. Partner with product, engineering leadership, and go-to-market teams to deliver customer-focused solutions. Guide projects from ideation through launch, foster psychological safety and continuous improvement, and contribute across team boundaries.

Lead and scale distributed engineering teams, drive technical best practices, manage project timelines and risks, oversee hiring and career development, and ensure scalable, secure, maintainable architectures while collaborating with product and stakeholders.