Top Engineering Manager Jobs in London

Lead and grow a team building and operating the Workers runtime at the edge. Own reliability, release safety, architectural evolution, and performance/security improvements for a high-throughput multi-tenant runtime implemented in C++/Rust and WebAssembly. Partner with adjacent teams, hire and mentor engineers, and balance customer-facing features with foundational investments.

Leads software engineering teams and technical projects for a mission-critical emergency dispatch platform. Provides architecture direction, conducts code reviews, guides C# backend, database, and web development, and oversees testing and delivery. Manages Scrum and Agile execution, mentors teams on AI development tools, fosters collaboration and continuous learning, and partners with senior leaders and external stakeholders. The role is primarily remote with occasional travel to UK and Poland offices and requires security clearance eligibility.

Leads and scales a data engineering team of 8+ engineers, owning data strategy, platform modernization, architecture, reliability, and engineering standards. Partners with product, analytics, and commercial teams to deliver scalable, secure, high-quality data solutions. Responsibilities include coaching, mentoring, roadmap ownership, stakeholder management, performance measurement, and representing data engineering with senior leadership. The role requires technical credibility across cloud platforms, data warehouses, orchestration, modeling, pipelines, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD.

Lead and mentor a cross-functional engineering team building growth-critical platforms, AI-driven tools, automations, and user engagement systems. Partner with Product and Design to prioritize work, guide architecture, improve processes, and deliver reliable production features. The role combines people leadership with hands-on backend software development, technical decision-making, stakeholder communication, and team enablement across distributed time zones.

Lead engineering across two global billing, payments, and API domains, owning technical and product strategy, cross-squad initiatives, stakeholder alignment, and people leadership for two teams. Diagnose systemic and organizational issues in a high-integrity data environment where reliability and reconciliation are critical. Drive customer-focused solutions, apply AI and LLMs for customer impact, manage hiring and performance, and support a shared global platform with configurable market-specific edges.

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.

Leads front-end software engineering while managing up to six engineers for up to 50% of their time. Responsibilities include designing scalable, responsive interfaces, optimizing performance, solving real-time collaborative editing challenges, translating requirements into quality code, coaching reports, providing feedback, supporting career development, and participating in performance and compensation decisions.

Lead and grow a compiler, kernel, and runtime engineering team responsible for accelerator bring-up across the Modular stack. Drive technical direction, architecture, coding, roadmap delivery, vendor partnerships, SOWs, milestones, cross-team dependencies, hiring, and production-quality model deployment across diverse hardware platforms.

Lead and grow engineering teams building blockchain and Web3 products. Drive technical strategy, architecture, delivery, quality, hiring, mentoring, and engineering processes to ensure reliable product delivery and team scaling.

Lead GenAI and Agentic Platform engineering across two teams of approximately 8–12 engineers. Set technical strategy, guide architecture for model access, evaluation, observability, retrieval, orchestration, tools, memory, permissions, and safety, and partner with Product, Applied Science, Data, Security, and Engineering. Responsibilities include hiring, coaching, organizational health, platform prioritization, stakeholder alignment, build-versus-buy decisions, and delivering reliable, scalable AI infrastructure.

Leads and develops a distributed engineering team through performance reviews, coaching, mentoring, feedback, and career planning. Manages cross-functional squad collaboration, facilitates retrospectives and check-ins, represents engineering in organizational discussions, and promotes accountability and continuous improvement. Provides technical oversight across client projects, identifies knowledge gaps, guides training, and supports engineering best practices, particularly in WordPress and emerging technologies.

Lead and mentor two software teams and one data team while shaping engineering culture, product strategy, roadmaps, architecture, and workstream priorities. Collaborate with technical and business stakeholders, participate in code reviews, and contribute high-quality code. The role requires strong Rust, TypeScript, Node.js, AWS, testing, API, database, cloud architecture, and agile development expertise.

Lead and develop a product engineering squad, balancing people leadership, delivery accountability, and technical guidance. Responsibilities include recruiting, coaching, planning, delivery health, production readiness, system reliability, security, scalability, and maintainability. Partner with product managers and engineering leaders to align priorities, guide technical decisions, improve delivery predictability, and support responsible use of AI-assisted engineering tools.

Lead a team of 7–8 engineers building ENSEK’s Flex cloud-native energy platform. Responsibilities include hiring, coaching, sprint planning, technical decision-making, architecture, engineering quality, CI/CD, testing, observability, incident response, operational excellence, and cross-functional collaboration with Product, UX, Data, and SRE. The role also contributes to team-model evolution and broader engineering strategy while ensuring reliable, commercially valuable product delivery.

Leads an engineering team while remaining technically engaged through code reviews, pairing, and high-impact contributions. Sets direction, converts ambiguity into delivery plans, and partners with Product, Design, and Operations. Improves code quality, observability, incident response, analytics, and developer velocity. Owns hiring, coaching, feedback, performance management, and team growth in a fast-paced startup environment.

Manage engineering and building maintenance services at Brettenham House, supporting mechanical, electrical, and public health systems. The role operates Monday through Friday from 08:00 to 17:00 and includes a one-in-two callout rota. Responsibilities are not detailed in the posting and require contacting the recruitment team for further information.

Leads software engineering teams across people development, technical direction, architecture, delivery, and operational ownership. Partners with Product and Design on roadmaps, discovery, prioritization, and customer outcomes while supporting engineering quality, CI/CD, testing, observability, reliability, and technical debt management. Coaches engineers, develops technical leadership, fosters inclusive culture, and guides teams toward autonomous decision-making. This is a 9–10 month maternity-cover contract beginning November 2026, based in Manchester or London with hybrid office attendance.

Lead Supabase’s Billing engineering team, overseeing people management, hiring, roadmap delivery, technical direction, partnerships, and incident response. Own systems covering subscriptions, usage-based billing, invoices, payments, taxation, entitlements, collections, and provider integrations. Build a healthy remote team, ensure predictable delivery, improve reliability and operational maturity, and coordinate with Product, Finance, Data, Support, Sales, and Partnerships on revenue-critical initiatives.

Lead and develop a software engineering team responsible for scalable backend services, APIs, data processing, and production operations. Own delivery across the software lifecycle, establish quality and reliability practices, partner with Product and AI/ML teams, manage priorities and risks, coach engineers, recruit talent, and build an inclusive culture. The role requires strong backend, cloud, distributed systems, CI/CD, observability, and people leadership experience.

Leads a security engineering team responsible for defining and delivering the security roadmap, designing secure cloud services and platforms, and implementing security tooling. The role combines people management, technical leadership, roadmap and product strategy contributions, design reviews, code reviews, hands-on engineering, recruitment, process improvement, and engineer development. Candidates need experience managing product-aligned engineering teams and securing modern cloud-native technology stacks.

Lead and grow a distributed team of engineers building Spotify’s experimentation SaaS platform. Responsibilities include hiring, coaching, career development, delivery quality, product prioritization, technical strategy, collaboration with product managers and Staff Engineers, and occasional hands-on engineering. The role is based in Stockholm with hybrid flexibility.

Lead and grow the Workers KV engineering team, shaping product features, improving performance, and delivering scalable distributed storage systems. Responsibilities include hiring, onboarding, professional development, planning, execution oversight, process improvement, instrumentation, and resolving delivery blockers. The role partners technical strategy with business goals while building reliable, high-performance developer APIs and infrastructure for Cloudflare’s global edge network.

Manages engineering teams of up to 10 people, guiding technical and product vision, talent development, performance, delivery, and operational excellence. Partners with clients, product managers, and client success teams to deliver platform solutions and drive technical roadmaps. Requires engineering management experience, strong communication, Agile and lean development knowledge, and familiarity with modern technologies including Kafka. The role involves 4–6 business trips annually and hybrid office work three days per week.

Leads strategic, cross-functional initiatives within the CTO Office, including GenAI adoption, engineering operations optimization, operational metrics, executive reporting, and client engagement preparation. The role manages competing priorities, aligns engineering and business stakeholders, improves workflows, removes bottlenecks, and supports high-impact organizational initiatives in a fast-paced technology environment.

Leads and grows Primer’s pre-sales Solutions Engineering team, including hiring, coaching, technical sales standards, discovery, demos, POCs, RFPs, and deal strategy. Partners with Sales leadership on pipeline and forecasts, supports complex enterprise deals, builds CFO-level business cases, translates merchant feedback into product input, and measures SE impact on win rates and deal velocity. The role requires technical fluency in API integrations, SDKs, webhooks, and authentication flows, plus strong commercial and executive communication skills.