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Engineering Manager in Europe

Summary

The job is for a Lead Engineer at a health tech startup that combines scientific research and AI to improve health. The company offers personalized nutrition programs and conducts large-scale health studies. The role involves leading a team of engineers, partnering with product managers, and delivering great customer impact.

Requirements

• Have a great reputation of leading a distributed full-stack team, in a fast paced environment
• Have experience working with Support teams, and understand best practices for handling Support at scale
• Are someone who takes ownership and is comfortable with ambiguity. You provide clarity and make things happen
• Have experience with paired programming
• Data-driven. You challenge everyone to measure impact and demonstrate added value
• Great communication skills. Both verbal and in writing

Responsibilities

• Leading a team of engineers that focuses on outcomes over output
• Coaching, mentoring and developing high-performing engineers
• Ensuring high psychological safety
• Partnering with product to establish the teams roadmap and achieve sustainable throughput
• Releasing small changes regularly to get fast feedback from our users
• Spending a large amount of your time deep in the code, leading by example on code and testing best practices
• Challenging the team on system design, scope and sequencing to deliver faster while decreasing technical debt
• Collaborating daily with other teams
• Thinking longer term and being proactive when solving challenges
• Contributing to the evolution of our architecture, tools and processes
• Partnering with other engineering managers on cross cutting initiatives like hiring and onboarding

Preferred Qualifications

• An incredible growth mindset. You read books, watch talks, listen to podcasts and are never afraid to try new things
• Experience building mobile apps
• Experience deploying machine learning in production
• Experience with scalability (backend, data pipelines)

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. - we want everyone to be rewarded for contribution to our growth
• 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. - The nutrition product, 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