Engineering Manager

🕒 May 25

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

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DISCO

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11 - 50 employees

On a mission to make music sharing and discovery simpler, faster, and more equal.Take care of your music. #GoDISCO

📋 Description

• - **Product & Technical Leadership** – Define and track OKRs in collaboration with Product and Design, ensuring alignment with strategic goals. Balance feature development with addressing technical debt and improving system health in a well structured Agile process. Guide thoughtful adoption of AI tooling to efficiently deliver secure, high quality engineering work at scale. • - **Technical Oversight** – Guide technical discovery, review designs and architecture decisions, and contribute to development when necessary to support the team’s success. • - **Team Development** – Mentor and grow engineers of varying seniority through regular 1:1s, career development plans, and structured feedback. Foster a culture of engagement, ownership, and technical excellence. • - **Cross-functional Collaboration** – Work closely with Product and Design to ensure technical feasibility, maintain high-quality standards, and deliver impactful solutions. • - **Engineering Standards & Best Practices** – Help define and implement engineering standards across teams, ensuring consistency in quality, performance, and reliability. • - **Operational Excellence** – Monitor and maintain engineering health metrics (SLOs, error rates, cycle time, operational costs) to drive improvements in processes, system performance and reliability. • - **Incident Management & On-call Processes** – Oversee incident response, and post-mortems, ensuring effective resolution and long-term fixes for recurring issues. • - **Continuous Improvement** – Drive enhancements in development workflows, testing practices, CI/CD pipelines, and overall engineering efficiency.

🎯 Requirements

• - **Engineering Leadership Experience** – Proven experience leading a team of engineers in a high-growth or complex product environment, with a focus on mentorship, team development, and fostering a strong engineering culture. • - **Customer focus** - Understand our customers deeply, engage in product strategy and focus on building great solutions that support our biggest customers. • - **Scalability & System Design** – Deep understanding of designing, building, and maintaining scalable web applications, APIs, and distributed systems, ideally in a SaaS or cloud-based environment. • - **Technical Expertise** – Strong knowledge of modern backend and frontend technologies, system performance optimisation, and architectural best practices for high-traffic applications. • - **Balancing Business & Engineering Priorities** – Ability to make strategic trade-offs between feature development, technical debt, and operational improvements, and to articulate a clear, data driven business case for decisions you make. • - **Cross-functional Collaboration** – Experience working closely with Product, Design, and other engineering teams to align on goals, manage dependencies, and deliver high-quality solutions. • - **Operational Focus** – Familiarity with monitoring, incident response, and maintaining service reliability at scale, including working with SLOs, observability platforms, and optimising for cost efficiency. • - **Process & Best Practices** – Knowledge of modern software development workflows, including CI/CD, testing strategies, and iterative improvement of engineering processes. • - **Strong Communication & Influence** – Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly and effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. • **Bonus Skills (Nice to Haves)** • - We use React, Typescript, Python, and Postgres, experience with these, or similar, is a big plus. • - Experience working in a high-scale SaaS or cloud-based environment. • - Hands-on experience with modern DevOps practices, including CI/CD and cloud infrastructure. • - Familiarity with observability tools, monitoring, and error tracking. • - Passion for building a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

🏖️ Benefits

• - Five weeks of paid vacation leave per year • - Paid bank/public holidays as outlined in our Leave Policy • - Two weeks of paid sick leave per year • - Paid Parental Leave • - A company laptop • - Monthly internet allowance/reimbursement • - Office set-up allowance • - Annual learning and development allowance • - The opportunity to join a genuinely friendly and fun team