Founding Engineering Manager

About The Opportunity

Join a founding team as the first engineering manager at a high-velocity, product-driven SaaS venture. You will build and lead a distributed engineering team, own core architecture and delivery, and partner closely with product and founding leadership to turn early traction into a reliable, scalable platform.

Role & Responsibilities

• Hire, mentor and grow the engineering team: build hiring plans, run structured interviews and create onboarding paths for remote-first engineers.
• Own technical architecture and roadmap tradeoffs: design scalable, secure systems and prioritise technical debt vs. feature delivery.
• Lead end-to-end delivery: set sprint cadences, define KPIs, remove blockers and ensure high-quality releases using CI/CD best practices.
• Drive platform reliability and observability: implement monitoring, alerting and incident runbooks to maintain SLAs for customers.
• Collaborate with product and founders to translate customer feedback into measurable engineering outcomes and product metrics.
• Define engineering standards and processes: code review practices, testing strategy, deployment automation and documentation culture.
  
  

Skills & Qualifications

Must-Have

• Technical hiring
• System architecture
• Kubernetes
• AWS
• Python
• CI/CD
  
  

Preferred

• TypeScript
• PostgreSQL
• Serverless frameworks
  
  

Qualifications

• Proven experience as an engineering lead/manager at an early-stage or high-growth product company; demonstrable track record of hiring and scaling teams.
• Hands-on engineering experience shipping backend services and shaping architecture decisions in cloud-native environments.
• Right to work in the United Kingdom and ability to work fully remotely within UK time zone expectations.
  
  

Benefits & Culture Highlights

• Remote-first work with flexible hours and a results-oriented culture.
• Significant ownership and leadership impact as an early founding hire.
• Competitive compensation package with equity participation to share in long-term upside.
  
  

This role is ideal for hands-on engineering leaders who thrive in ambiguity, enjoy hiring and coaching strong engineers, and are motivated to build robust, scalable platforms that deliver measurable customer value. Apply if you want to shape engineering culture and technical direction from day one.

Skills: python,kubernetes,system architecture,aws