Software Engineering Manager

Job Description

Tech Team Lead – Product Engineering

£120-£150k + Equity

Hybrid (London – 3 days/week onsite)

Scale-Up | Mission-Driven

Our client, an innovative and fast-scaling health tech company, is seeking a Hands on Engineering Manager with experience in building loved products to lead a cross-functional engineering squad focused on developing web applications that directly improve patient health and well-being.

This is an opportunity to step into a key engineering role at a company making a real-world impact, backed by strong growth and an ambitious product roadmap.

Key Responsibilities

Team Leadership & Collaboration

• Lead a high-performing team of frontend and backend engineers
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers, QAS, and Data Scientists
• Partner with the Product team to shape ideas into delivery plans and launch successful features
• Contribute to architectural decisions, coding, testing, and deployment

Product Development & Technical Strategy

• Drive the delivery of features from inception to release and post-launch improvement.
• Make pragmatic technical decisions that balance long-term vision with current needs
• Foster cross-functional alignment and efficient delivery of product goals

Mentoring & Continuous Improvement

• Support the growth and development of engineers through feedback and coaching.
• Encourage best practices in testing, automation, and deployment
• Collaborate with other Tech Leads and Engineering Leadership to evolve technical standards

About You

• 7+ years of experience in software engineering, ideally with experience leading teams
• Excellent full-stack technical skills, ideally with experience in one of two of the following: JavaScript (React/Node), Go or Python.
• Passionate about solving meaningful problems and creating user-centric products
• Comfortable operating in a dynamic, fast-paced startup environment
• Strong communicator, able to bridge technical and non-technical discussions
• Skilled in architecture, testing, clean code, and modern engineering practices
• Familiar with measuring impact using business and engineering metrics
• Able to work from the London HQ 3 days per week

What’s on Offer

Compensation & Perks

• Excellent salary: £120k - £150k DOE
• Generous equity options
• Private healthcare
• Learning & development budget
• Gym & wellness membership
• Cycle to work & electric car schemes

Culture & Flexibility

• Hybrid model (3 days onsite at London Bridge HQ)
• Weekly team lunch
• 25 days holiday + enhanced parental leave
• Flexible working hours
• Annual company retreat
• Supportive and ambitious work culture in one of the UK’s most exciting health & wellness scale-ups

If this sounds like your next adventure, I would love to hear from you. I'll get back to applications asap