Engineering Manager

The company

Runtime have partnered with a fast-growing, well-funded software supply chain and artifact management scale-up. Their fully managed SaaS platform is critical infrastructure for software teams worldwide. Usage has grown more than 30x in three years.

They're building by developers, for developers, and care about craft, openness and transparency. Following strong growth in their engineering team, they're now hiring several Engineering Managers and Senior Engineering Managers to scale their leadership.

The role

This is a highly technical leadership role for someone who moved into management without losing their engineering edge. You'll lead high-performing squads (typically 5–6 engineers) delivering new capabilities on a large-scale, cloud-native platform. Senior EMs will grow to lead multiple squads.

You won't write much code, but you'll take part in system design, implementation and trade-off discussions with senior and principal engineers. You'll need to explain constraints as the platform hits new levels of scale.

Key responsibilities

Delivery & Execution

• Lead the delivery of new product capabilities across one or more teams
• Empower teams to perform at their best and hold them accountable
• Remove blockers, troubleshoot and mediate where needed
• Stay focused on meeting commitments and delighting customers

Team Leadership

• Develop engineers through coaching, 1:1s, mentoring and career planning
• Build communication based on trust, transparency and honesty
• Address underperformance appropriately and with suitable urgency
• Play an active role in hiring and growing the engineering team

Strategy & Stakeholders

• Understand product strategy and market needs, and share them with your teams
• Contribute to product strategy to maximise value for the business and customers
• Manage internal and external stakeholder expectations
• Own change initiatives within engineering

What you'll bring

• A software development background, with a continued interest in hands-on engineering
• Engineering management experience in developer tooling, platform engineering, security software, or large-scale, high-volume, high-transaction web products
• A proven track record of building and sustaining high-performing engineering teams and culture
• Experience building cloud-native SaaS products and working with teams that ship to production frequently
• Ability to build a cohesive team in a remote-first environment

Nice to have

• Familiarity with AWS, Python, Rust, Django, Postgres, ClickHouse, Kinesis, Flink, Lambda, Terraform, React or Next.js
• Experience managing multiple teams or squads

What's on offer

• Highly competitive base salary plus pre-IPO equity
• Comprehensive private healthcare
• Generous annual leave and flexible, family-friendly working
• Professional development budget for training, conferences, books and certifications
• Remote-first working, with roughly monthly travel for team meetups and occasional travel for events and customers

Location

Remote-first across the UK and Ireland. You must have the right to work in the UK or Ireland without sponsorship