Cleo is hiring a
Senior Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Cleo, a fast-growing tech startup backed by top VC firms, as a Technical Leader for their Platform/SRE team. You will be responsible for creating a strategy for the platform team, managing security and compliance needs, and leading a group of senior engineers. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of management experience, prior experience in platform, security, tooling, infrastructure, devops or SRE space, and excellent communication skills.

Requirements

• 5+ years management experience with previous hands-on software development experience
• Prior experience in platform, security, tooling, infrastructure, devops or SRE space
• Worked across a product engineering organisation to build a platform that supports their delivery
• Knowledge of security best practices and built the documentation to support this
• Passion for and proven ability to coach and mentor people
• Excellent communicator - they need to be comfortable challenging & supporting upwards, downwards and with peers
• Ability to adapt to constantly changing circumstances
• Learning and Growth Mindset - we move quickly and experiment lots and we need them to help people learn and grow from mistakes

Responsibilities

• Create a strategy for the platform team
• Own the platform and tools that enables and amplifies the rest of engineering
• Own the delivery and practices of the platform team
• Managing our security and compliance needs from an engineering perspective
• Management of a group of senior engineers, supporting them in their career growth and performance

Benefits

• A competitive compensation package (up to £130k base + equity)
• Work at one of the fastest-growing tech startups, backed by top VC firms like Sofina, Balderton & EQT Ventures
• A clear progression plan
• Flexibility: We treat you as humans first, employees second
• Hybrid-first: Join our hybrid-first team, where we blend the best of both remote and in-office work
• 25 days annual leave a year + public holidays (+ an additional day for every year you spend at Cleo)
• 6% employer-matched pension in the UK
• Company-wide performance reviews every 8 months
• Private Medical Insurance via Vitality, dental cover, and life assurance
• Enhanced parental leave
• 1 month paid sabbatical after 4 years at Cleo