Senior Engineering Manager

🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 28 April 2026
LOCATION
London
TYPE
Full-time
LEVEL
Director
SALARY
£130,000 / year
CATEGORY
Technology
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SKILLS

Leading engineering teams Delivering complex initiatives People development Building high-performing teams Inspiring trust and autonomy Communication skills Technical direction Engineering best practices

FULL DESCRIPTION

Senior Engineering Manager

Company: [Employer hidden — view at passion-project.co.uk]

Location: London

Salary: £110,000 - £130,000 per year

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Type: Full-time

Experience Level: Director

About the Role

Who you are

  • Have proven experience leading engineering teams and successfully delivering complex, multi-team initiatives
  • Have a strong record of developing people, building high-performing engineering teams, and growing future leaders
  • Can inspire trust and autonomy at all levels, building a positive, inclusive, and high-performing team culture
  • Thrive in a dynamic, collaborative, and highly cross-functional environment
  • Possess excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, and can influence at all levels of the organization
  • Lead confidently through ambiguity, creating clarity and momentum in complex or uncertain situations
  • Have a passion for driving technical and operational excellence

What the job involves

  • Lead multiple teams and their Engineering Managers, supporting them in career development through coaching and performance management
  • Own end-to-end delivery for your teams, ensuring projects are planned, executed, and delivered in a timely and high-quality manner
  • Partner closely with Product, Design, Data Science and business stakeholders to align technical delivery to business outcomes. Use domain expertise to guide teams toward high-impact opportunities
  • Support technical direction and architecture without being deeply hands-on with code. Drive alignment in cross-team dependencies and ensure clarity on technical prioritisation, system interactions, and data flows between systems
  • Champion engineering best practices across teams, promoting quality and fostering a culture of technical innovation
  • Drive operational excellence, ensuring that all teams under your leadership have robust monitoring, alerting, and incident management processes

Company Information

[Employer hidden] is Europe's leading rail ticketing platform. They make it super easy to book transport tickets with an intuitive and well-designed app, pioneering paperless travel. They are hyper-focused on customer experience and have a product culture of fast iteration. Their customers make 170,000 journeys a day and they sell 200 tickets a minute. They are continuing to innovate using machine learning and integrating with voice assistants.

Company Benefits

  • Flexible working (60% min office attendance)
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Discounted gym memberships through Wellhub
  • Private Health and Dental Insurance
  • Enhanced Pension (matched contributions)
  • Income Protection
  • Share Incentive Plan (buy one get one free)
  • Learning budget
  • Primary & Secondary Caregiver Leave
  • Shared Parental Leave
  • Enhanced sick pay
  • Free Perkbox subscription
  • Electric Vehicle Salary Sacrifice Scheme
  • YellowNest - Subsidised Childcare Fees
  • Work from Abroad

Application Instructions

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