Engineering Manager

🕒 August 11

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

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Runware

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2023

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🔌 API

📱 Media

Artificial Intelligence • API • Media

Runware is a flexible generative AI platform that specializes in high-quality media creation for images and videos through an affordable and fast API. It is capable of advanced tasks such as image generation, video inference, upscaling, and background removal, making it an essential tool for developers seeking to enhance their projects with AI technology. Powered by a custom Sonic Inference Engine™ and renewable energy, Runware ensures quick and efficient media generation without requiring complex infrastructure or machine learning expertise.

📋 Description

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of engineers • Build a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement • Support individual growth through 1:1s, feedback, and coaching • Participate in hiring, onboarding, and performance management • Own planning, prioritization, execution, and delivery of engineering work • Ensure projects are delivered on time with high quality and clear ownership • Identify risks and remove blockers • Balance speed, reliability, and technical debt • Provide technical guidance on system design, architecture, and trade-offs • Ensure backend systems are scalable, reliable, and performant • Promote code quality, testing, observability, and security best practices • Partner with Product, DevOps, ML, and other engineering teams • Translate business and product goals into engineering execution plans • Communicate clearly and proactively in a fully remote environment • Scale Runware’s platform

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering • At least 3 years in an engineering management or tech lead role • Strong backend background in PHP, Python, Go, Rust, or similar • Solid understanding of distributed systems • Proven experience leading teams and delivering complex technical projects end-to-end • Comfortable discussing system design, APIs, performance, and scalability • Experience with CI/CD, testing, code reviews, and monitoring • Strong people leadership skills, including empathy, clarity, and raising the bar without burning teams out • Excellent communication skills • Ability to operate autonomously in a remote setup • Existing right to work in the UK; no UK visa sponsorship available

🏖️ Benefits

• Generous paid time off – vacation, sick days, public holidays • Meaningful stock options • Remote-first setup – work from home anywhere we can employ you • Flexible hours outside core collaboration blocks • Paid maternity, paternity, and caregiver leave • Company retreats twice yearly • Core hours for cooperative working and calls • Real downtime after big release cycles