Engineering Manager - Travel FX App
HybridLondon, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Lead and manage a team of engineers across frontend, backend, and full stack development while owning engineering delivery for major product areas. Drive technical architecture and engineering decisions across APIs, databases, integrations, infrastructure, and customer-facing systems. Set engineering standards around code quality, system design, testing, observability, security, and production reliability. Stay close to the technical work through architecture reviews, code reviews, debugging, and critical engineering decisions. Develop engineers through regular feedback, coaching, performance management, and clear expectations. Improve engineering processes, tooling, and automation to help the team move faster and operate at scale. Own production outcomes beyond release by monitoring systems, resolving incidents, identifying root causes, and ensuring problems do not repeat. Build a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, speed, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.
Required Qualifications
- Strong software engineering background with experience building and shipping real production systems
- Experience leading or managing software engineers and owning engineering delivery
- Strong technical depth across backend, frontend, APIs, databases, distributed systems or cloud infrastructure
- Strong track record of taking products or systems from idea through development, launch and production
- Strong people leadership with the ability to coach engineers, manage performance and build high-performing teams
- Strong product sense and ability to connect engineering decisions to customer and business outcomes
- Able to work fast with ambiguity, establish priorities and drive teams toward clear outcomes
- Strong ownership mentality — when something breaks or delivery slips, you take responsibility for getting it back on track
- English is our main working language across global teams. Strong English communication is required
- Candidates should be based in, or able to work from, the location where the role is advertised
- You are expected to work from our local office at least 3 days per week
Desired Qualifications
- A strong highlight means you personally helped build, ship or scale a serious product, platform or engineering organisation and can clearly explain your contribution
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