Engineering Manager, Lendable

About the Role

Engineering Managers at [Employer hidden] are a unique group of amazing humans that combine strategic insight, hands-on technical leadership, and strong people management to shape and evolve our engineering teams. They operate at the convergence of business goals, technical execution, and team coaching, ensuring that every project and process aligns seamlessly with our mission and values. They build a resilient foundation for sustained success by focusing on team growth and technical innovation. We’re looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead one of the teams delivering our Zable App, used by over 1 million customers on iOS and Android. In this role, you’ll act as both a visionary and a hands-on leader, driving the team’s delivery efficiency, technical excellence, and cross-functional collaboration. You’ll own and refine the delivery process, balancing feature development with technical investments and maintaining high team development standards. With a proactive approach, you’ll guide the team to meet our business goals while nurturing a collaborative and growth-oriented culture. There’s much to accomplish as an Engineering Manager at [Employer hidden]. You’ll help create a high-performing, resilient team that achieves today’s objectives while building a foundation for long-term success. From enhancing delivery quality to developing a robust, valuable platform, your work will ensure we deliver impactful solutions that meet the needs of our customers and stakeholders alike.

What the job involves

• Own and optimise the delivery process to ensure features reach customers efficiently, contributing directly to quarterly and yearly OKRs focused on customer satisfaction and delivery timelines.
• Collaborate with Product Managers to balance feature development with technical improvements, achieving a sustainable pace for the team that aligns with business outcomes.
• Build and develop a high-performing team by conducting regular assessments, cross-training, and implementing clear career progression pathways, supporting team resilience and adaptability.
• Drive technical strategy in alignment with business goals, using insights from Tech Leads and senior engineers to make strategic trade-offs between short-term deliverables and long-term technical investments.
• Ensure high-quality output by establishing best practices in quality assurance and incident management, tracking metrics such as uptime and incident reduction in the team’s area.
• Facilitate cross-team collaboration to align on shared objectives and integrated roadmaps, ensuring seamless workflows and supporting key OKRs across dependent teams.
• Embed continuous feedback within the team culture, fostering an environment of continuous improvement and aligning the team’s performance with organisational goals.

Who you are

• A degree in Computer Science or relevant experience in software engineering and technical management.
• 5+ years of experience in engineering leadership, with a strong track record in driving delivery processes, team development, technical strategy, and cross-team collaboration.
• Strong understanding of the mobile app development process and experience managing cross functional backend and frontend teams in an environment with dependencies on other business areas.
• Demonstrated ability to balance feature delivery with technical improvements, ensuring a sustainable and high-quality pace for the team.
• Strong business acumen and a proactive approach to gaining deep business context, enabling alignment of technical decisions with broader business goals.
• Proven experience in owning delivery timelines and quality outcomes, with the ability to identify and resolve bottlenecks quickly and efficiently.
• Skilled in building high-performing teams, with experience in skills assessment, cross-training, and fostering a continuous learning and improvement culture.
• Ability to strategically guide technical decisions without being a blocker, with familiarity in technical debt management, architectural planning, and quality assurance best practices.
• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills, with experience facilitating joint planning and maintaining alignment across multiple teams and stakeholders.
• Proficiency in managing incidents and on-call processes, ensuring platform robustness and reliability.

Technologies

The backend of our Zable app is Kotlin, AWS, GraphQL and the frontend is React Native with TypeScript. Across the rest of [Employer hidden] we also use PHP 8, Symfony 6&7, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Docker, Kubernetes, React & React Native, TypeScript, MobX, Redux, Stylus and SASS, Jenkins, Behat, PHPUnit, Jest, Selenium, Maestro and Detox.

Application process

• A quick phone call with someone from the People Team.
• An Introductory call to the role with either one of our Senior EM's or one of our VPs of Engineering.
• Three onsite interviews: Delivery Management and Team Collaboration, Technical Interview (don’t worry, we won't ask you to code), People and Team management.
• One last interview with someone from the senior leadership team.

Salary Benchmarks

Engineering Management - Expert: £160k, Senior: £90k

Company Benefits

• Best-in-class compensation, including equity.
• Comprehensive private health insurance (including dental, optometry and general wellbeing).
• Multiple opportunities to socialise with your team and the wider company.
• Equipment provided for you to do your best work!
• You can work from home every Monday and Friday if you wish - on the other days we all come together IRL to be together, build and exchange ideas (hybrid).
• Our in-house chefs prepare fresh, healthy lunches in the office every Tuesday-Thursday.
• EV car scheme (Octopus).
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Pension.
• 25 days of annual leave - excluding bank holidays.
• 50% off gym memberships at Virgin Active and Nuffield (via Vitality health insurance).