Software Engineering Manager

Full-Stack Engineering Manager (hands-on)

You've built products end-to-end at a startup and you're good at it. But lately you spend more time in process than in problems. You want somewhere the engineering is actually hard and your code has real-world consequences.

This is a lead full-stack role at a seed-stage climate tech company. The platform is used daily by hundreds of businesses, and the engineering problems are unusual: 2D geometry, offline-first sync in a relational database, computer vision tooling, hardware integrations. Not CRUD.

You'd own a core domain end-to-end. Discovery with product and design, architecture calls, build, ship, measure. No wireframes arrive in your inbox. You talk to users directly (every engineer does regular customer support rotations). After three months of IC work to learn the codebase, you'd take on line management of a squad. The balance of code versus people leadership is yours to shape.

The team is small, deliberately so, and seriously filtered. Hundreds of candidates screened per role. Everyone who joins says two things: the people are better than expected, and they feel slightly out of their depth. That's by design.

The company closed an oversubscribed seed round, is past 1m ARR with strong product-market fit, and has over two years of runway. The current product is a wedge into a much larger market. There is a lot to build, across new product lines, new verticals, and new countries over the next 18 months.

£85-120k + equity (4-year vest, 1-year cliff). London or Bristol, hybrid (2+ days in office), 33 days holiday.

You'll need: 4+ years commercial full-stack experience, React, any back-end language (ideally Node/TypeScript), relational DB skills, and a real product mindset (you do discovery before you code).

If this sounds like you, drop across your CV and I'm happy to share more over a quick call.