Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager

London - Hybrid (2 days per week)

The Company

Our client is transforming primary care by enabling proactive, preventative healthcare at scale. They support 500+ practices and 4.5 million patients across the UK, helping teams identify risk earlier, act sooner, and deliver care efficiently without extra burden.

Their engineering team builds robust, scalable, high impact software that drives real outcomes. As they scale, they are evolving their culture to move fast, raise the bar, and deliver at startup speed.

What you will do

• Grow, mentor and manage high performing engineering teams with a focus on speed, rigour, and accountability
• Coach engineers to improve technically and professionally, creating a clear growth path
• Implement engineering best practices and raise the quality bar across code, architecture, and delivery
• Help transition the team from early stage startup to an elite engineering organisation with structure, pace, and intensity
• Ensure projects are delivered rapidly, always putting customer needs at the heart of what you do
• Cultivate a high output, high trust culture where engineers take full ownership and move quickly without sacrificing quality
• Recruit, onboard, and retain top engineers who are drawn to a fast, demanding, high growth environment
• Work closely with Product, Design, and Ops to prioritise and execute

You might be a fit if you

• Have 3+ years of engineering leadership experience in high growth startups or scale ups
• Have seen scale before in a product based environment and are hungry to build it again
• Can support engineering in high velocity environments with clear KPIs and performance expectations
• Know how to balance speed with engineering rigour, shipping fast but rarely breaking things
• Are hands on enough to jump into code or architecture discussions but know how to delegate and empower
• Have a strong product mindset and care about outcomes, not just output
• Are relentless about raising the bar on execution, hiring, and accountability
• Have hands on experience with Python, React, public cloud environments (AWS preferred), distributed systems such as Kubernetes, and infrastructure as code