Engineering Manager - UK

Ashby
United Kingdom, London, Oxford, Cambridge, Manchester
Workplace: RemoteFull timeGBP 91,000 - 200,000 annuallyFunction: Data Analytics & Business IntelligenceSkills: ["Leadership","Mentoring","Communication","Problem-solving","Team-building"]

Lead and grow a European engineering team, shaping culture, ownership, and delivery. Balance hands-on coding with mentorship, coach engineers on product specs, and empower teams to deliver large, loosely defined projects while maintaining focus and high standards across Infra, Backend, and Frontend. Collaborate with cross-functional leaders to improve developer experience and align engineering with business goals.

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Ashby
Ashby
1 year ago

Engineering Manager - UK

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Job Summary

Lead and grow a European engineering team, shaping culture, ownership, and delivery. Balance hands-on coding with mentorship, coach engineers on product specs, and empower teams to deliver large, loosely defined projects while maintaining focus and high standards across Infra, Backend, and Frontend. Collaborate with cross-functional leaders to improve developer experience and align engineering with business goals.
Location: United Kingdom, London, Oxford, Cambridge, Manchester
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build and grow the engineering team in Europe, focusing on ownership and accountability for projects.
  • •Coach ICs to reach the right technical decisions and refine product specs without enforcing final decisions.
  • •Attend to the developer experience and contribute to debugging, bug fixes, and system improvements when needed.
  • •Help engineers take large, loosely defined projects from concept to delivery with minimal intervention.
  • •Foster an environment with high trust, autonomy, and responsibility while maintaining regular communication with stakeholders.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: GBP 91,000 - 200,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:EquityPaid LeaveLearning BudgetEquipment Budget

Key Requirements

  • •Hands-on engineering leadership with a track record of coaching engineers to deliver ownership over projects.
  • •Ability to influence product and technical specifications and help engineers scope work while not making final decisions.
  • •Experience growing and managing teams (e.g., keeping junior reports under mentorship, scaling teams in Europe).
  • •Strong communication skills to align engineers, product, and leadership around goals and feedback.
  • •Comfort with writing or reviewing technical specs and contributing technically when needed.
Experience:Software engineeringStartupEngineering leadership
Skills:LeadershipMentoringCommunicationProblem-solvingTeam-building
Tech Stack:TypeScriptNode.jsReactApollo GraphQLPostgresRedis

Company Brief

Ashby
Ashby builds an all‑in‑one recruiting platform (ATS, CRM, scheduling, analytics and AI features) that helps high‑growth companies streamline hiring, improve candidate experience, and deliver data‑driven talent decisions.
Industry: HR Tech
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Funding: Series D
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2018
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