Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Sona, a rapidly growing company revolutionizing frontline workforce management with AI-powered solutions. As an Engineering Manager, you'll lead the AI team, developing products that leverage LLMs and ML forecasting to differentiate Sona from competitors. You'll champion high technical standards, drive continuous improvements, and collaborate with Product Managers to prioritize roadmaps. Sona values a hands-on approach, empowering small, cross-functional teams to solve business problems. The company offers a competitive salary, full remote and flexible working, share options, generous leave, pension contributions, comprehensive health insurance, enhanced parental leave, co-working space stipend, team retreats, and professional development opportunities.

Requirements

• You have some professional experience building software in Elixir and at least a strong interest in what can be achieved by utilising AI in products
• You’ve led teams before and have strong opinions on how to empower them to build the best possible products
• You have a strong preference towards taking ownership, and focus on “getting it shipped” for user feedback over a “complex and shiny” solution
• You're a believer in AI coding tools and have examples of how they've helped you improve your own work over the last year or so
• You’re in a country which is GMT +/- 3 and fluent communicating both verbally and in writing in English
• You’re able to attend in-person company meetups 2-3 times per year, these will be around 4 days long and usually require flying both in and outside of Europe

Responsibilities

• Leading and growing a high performing engineering team
• Championing high technical standards across our team
• Driving continuous improvements to your team’s delivery process
• Building deep understanding of our product and user needs
• Collaborating with our Product Managers to prioritise roadmaps and understand the ‘why’ behind feature requests
• Work towards owning P&L for your team

Benefits

• Salary: £100k-120k (or local currency equivalent)
• Full remote and flexible working
• Share options
• 35 days annual leave (25 days standard plus 10 flexible public holiday days)
• Extra day of leave for every year of service
• Pension contributions matched up to 5%
• Comprehensive health insurance
• Enhanced parental leave & pay
• Co-working space stipend for those based outside London
• Bi-annual all expenses paid team retreats
• The latest Macbook and equipment budget for your home office
• Professional development budget
• Unlimited free books