Engineering Manager

Utility Warehouse

19h•Remote

About The Position

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to join our team at UW. In this role, you will work closely with a small team of engineers, supporting both their technical direction and their personal development. This position blends hands-on involvement with leadership, guiding delivery while staying connected to the details when needed. You will collaborate with a Product Manager to shape priorities, balance new work with ongoing improvements, and keep the team focused and supported. Additionally, you will connect with other leaders across the organization to share practices and help strengthen our engineering culture as we grow. As an Engineering Manager at UW, you will create clarity, consistency, and momentum in your squad. You will set direction, ensure high standards in both delivery and quality, and balance short-term goals with long-term sustainability. You will invest in people through coaching, feedback, and development, while fostering a positive team culture. You will communicate effectively across levels, manage complexity, and continuously grow as a leader to enable your teams to do their best work.

Requirements

Knowledge (experience is a bonus) of our core tech stack; gRPC, GraphQL, React, Kafka, Docker & Kubernetes, experience with Go is preferred but not essential.
Experience taking responsibility for technical decisions and aligning them with strategy.
A clear understanding of engineering practices and ability to identify improvements.
Experience defining team goals and driving prioritisation to achieve them.
Ability to work with Product Managers to set OKRs aligned with company goals.
Ability to co-lead annual and quarterly planning.
Experience identifying risks early and mitigating them.
Experience identifying practices for security and SLOs.
Ability to drive operational excellence and lead metrics reviews.
Experience of managing a team of engineers.
Proven ability to onboard, train, develop, and coach reports, as well as participating in performance calibration and promotion reviews.
Intermediate awareness of customer and market insights.
Ability to communicate strategy to the squad.
Experience fostering a healthy team dynamic and resolving interpersonal conflicts.
Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional colleagues.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Go is preferred but not essential.

Responsibilities

Take responsibility for the technical decisions the squad makes and ensure they align with company and technical strategy.
Have a clear understanding of the engineering practices within the team and identify opportunities for improvement.
Understand all of the technologies used by UW in your squad, and how they fit together.
Take an integral role in defining team goals and ensuring proposed work is aligned with them.
Drive prioritisation within the team to best achieve goals.
Push yourself and the team to achieve team goals.
Identify and put in place practices needed to ensure security and operational service level objectives (SLOs) are met.
Coordinate with your squad — and others as needed — to ensure organisation-wide on-call coverage.
Drive the squad to operational excellence, leading regular metrics reviews to ensure high coverage and performance.
Work with the Product Manager and team to set objectives and key results (OKRs) that align with company goals.
Identify risks and blockers early and work with stakeholders to mitigate them.
Measure team performance so that you can continually improve it.
Communicate team progress against OKRs, key performance indicators (KPIs) and other milestones to relevant stakeholders.
Co-lead annual and quarterly planning for your squad.
Ensure the squad is staffed with the technical skillsets to deliver objectives, developing skills within team members and/or hiring as needed.
Onboard, train, develop and coach your reports to facilitate their career growth.
Participate in performance calibration and promotion reviews for your squad.
Understand and communicate company, department, and pillar strategy and goals to your squad.
Interact with stakeholders from across the business in order to provide insight and context to their teams.
Teach our culture to others and foster a healthy dynamic within your team.
Help to resolve interpersonal conflicts and gather, share and act on feedback.
Effectively communicate company and department changes to your squad.
With help from your manager, raise the team's voice to senior leadership.
Collaborate effectively with cross-functional colleagues, such as UX and data.
Co-lead your squad with your squad's Product Manager.
Ensure team expenditures (both OpEx and CapEx) are in line with budgets.

Benefits

Competitive salary
Performance bonus: An annual discretionary bonus ranging from 15-40%.
Flexible working: We’re a remote-first business.
Work-life balance: We offer an optional four-day working week (90% pay for 90% impact).
Work from anywhere: You can work abroad for up to three weeks, twice every tax year.
Holiday: 25 days plus bank holidays (increasing with tenure), with the option to trade up to five days each year.
UW discounts: Save on our services and get a free Cashback Card.
Future planning: Matched-contribution pension scheme and life assurance (up to 4x salary).
Family first: Policies designed to help you and your family thrive.
Flexible benefits: An allowance for private health insurance, dental insurance, or gym membership.
Sabbaticals: An eight-week paid sabbatical after four years of service.
Growth: A dedicated learning and development budget and bi-annual promotion cycles.
Inclusion: Join belonging groups that help shape our culture.
Events: Company-wide celebrations including the ‘Great Big Get Together’ and our ‘Good Hearted Go-Getter Awards’.