Remote Engineering Manager

Summary

The job is for a Technical Team Lead at ZOE, a remote-first startup focused on personalized nutrition and improving health through scientific research and AI. The role involves leading a team of engineers, delivering meaningful customer impact, and ensuring high psychological safety and collaboration. The company offers various benefits including stock options, paid time off, enhanced parental leave, private healthcare, life assurance, health and wellbeing benefits, a pension, and learning and social opportunities.

Requirements

• Experienced in leading a distributed full-stack team, in a fast pace environment
• Takes ownership and is comfortable with ambiguity
• Collaborates effectively with cross-functional teams and communicates technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• A servant leader who leads by example, finding opportunities for others to grow and shine
• Enjoys stepping back and seeing problems from a different perspective in order to find innovative solutions
• Great communication skills, both verbal and in writing
• Experience with paired programming
• Data-driven. Challenges teams to measure impact and demonstrate added value
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Pay close attention to detail and a commitment to delivering high-quality code

Preferred Qualifications

• An incredible growth mindset. Reads books, watches talks, listens to podcasts and is never afraid to try new things
• Experience building mobile apps
• Experience with scalability (backend, data pipelines)
• Experience working with Support teams, and understands best practices for handling Support at scale
• Experience working with payments and finance
• Experience with state management libraries (e.g., Redux, MobX) and UI component libraries (e.g., Material-UI, Ant Design)
• Experience deploying machine learning in production

Benefits

• Remote-first. Work from home, pop into our London/Boston offices, or work within the EU; you have flexibility to choose your own place of work and work flexibly
• Stock options
• Paid time-off. On top of any national / bank holidays, you get 28 days off (25 plus 1 life-event and 2 company-wide reset days)
• Enhanced parental leave. Enhanced parental leave, family planning and pregnancy/adoption loss leave - adding on to the statutory offering, we know how important it is to be supportive at times that matter
• Private healthcare. and life assurance. Flexible options to choose what fits
• Health and wellbeing. Employee Assistance Program, Spill mental health support, Cycle to Work, yoga and more
• Pension. Paying monthly and offering flexibility to top your pension up
• Allocated social, WFH and Growth (L&D) budgets from the day you join
• Plenty of learning and social opportunities