Engineering Manager

About the role

As an Engineering Manager, you combine technical expertise with strong leadership to guide a team of product engineers in delivering impactful outcomes for DISCO and our customers. You contribute directly to technical design, implementation, and optimisation within your team’s scope and across the engineering org, while also supporting engineers to grow their skills and careers. You know when to be hands-on in solving technical challenges and when to focus on strategy and people management. You work in close collaboration with your product and design peers to prioritise and deliver work that balances feature delivery with quality, performance and reliability, ensuring technical feasibility and customer value. You will also collaborate with technical leaders to drive engineering and architecture excellence, and work with our data and market facing teams in the UK to support our biggest enterprise customers. As a leader, you foster a high performance culture of ownership, technical excellence, and collaboration, while supporting team autonomy and aligning with broader engineering standards.

Responsibilities

• Product & Technical Leadership – Define and track OKRs in collaboration with Product and Design, ensuring alignment with strategic goals. Balance feature development with addressing technical debt and improving system health in a well structured Agile process. Guide thoughtful adoption of AI tooling to efficiently deliver secure, high-quality engineering work at scale.
• Technical Oversight – Guide technical discovery, review designs and architecture decisions, and contribute to development when necessary to support the team’s success.
• Team Development – Mentor and grow engineers of varying seniority through regular 1:1s, career development plans, and structured feedback. Foster a culture of engagement, ownership, and technical excellence.
• Cross-functional Collaboration – Work closely with Product and Design to ensure technical feasibility, maintain high-quality standards, and deliver impactful solutions.
• Engineering Standards & Best Practices – Help define and implement engineering standards across teams, ensuring consistency in quality, performance, and reliability.
• Operational Excellence – Monitor and maintain engineering health metrics (SLOs, error rates, cycle time, operational costs) to drive improvements in processes, system performance and reliability.
• Incident Management & On-call Processes – Oversee incident response, and post-mortems, ensuring effective resolution and long-term fixes for recurring issues.
• Continuous Improvement – Drive enhancements in development workflows, testing practices, CI/CD pipelines, and overall engineering efficiency.

Requirements

• Engineering Leadership Experience – Proven experience leading a team of engineers in a high-growth or complex product environment, with a focus on mentorship, team development, and fostering a strong engineering culture.
• Customer focus - Understand our customers deeply, engage in product strategy and focus on building great solutions that support our biggest customers.
• Scalability & System Design – Deep understanding of designing, building, and maintaining scalable web applications, APIs, and distributed systems, ideally in a SaaS or cloud-based environment.
• Technical Expertise – Strong knowledge of modern backend and frontend technologies, system performance optimisation, and architectural best practices for high-traffic applications.
• Balancing Business & Engineering Priorities – Ability to make strategic trade-offs between feature development, technical debt, and operational improvements, and to articulate a clear, data driven business case for decisions you make.
• Cross-functional Collaboration – Experience working closely with Product, Design, and other engineering teams to align on goals, manage dependencies, and deliver high-quality solutions.
• Operational Focus – Familiarity with monitoring, incident response, and maintaining service reliability at scale, including working with SLOs, observability platforms, and optimising for cost efficiency.
• Process & Best Practices – Knowledge of modern software development workflows, including CI/CD, testing strategies, and iterative improvement of engineering processes.
• Strong Communication & Influence – Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly and effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Bonus Skills (Nice to Haves)

• We use React, Typescript, Python, and Postgres, experience with these, or similar, is a big plus.
• Experience working in a high-scale SaaS or cloud-based environment.
• Hands-on experience with modern DevOps practices, including CI/CD and cloud infrastructure.
• Familiarity with observability tools, monitoring, and error tracking.
• Passion for building a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Benefits

• Five weeks of paid vacation leave per year
• Paid bank/public holidays as outlined in our Leave Policy
• Two weeks of paid sick leave per year
• Paid Parental Leave
• A company laptop
• Monthly internet allowance/reimbursement
• Office set-up allowance
• Annual learning and development allowance
• The opportunity to join a genuinely friendly and fun team