fanvue

Engineering Manager

fanvue

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: United Kingdom

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Tech Stack

AWSDistributed Systems

About the role

  • Own engineering delivery and partner closely with Product to drive Creator Earnings, NRR, Creator Conversion, Activation, and K-Factor
  • Lead the engineering roadmap for Creator Earnings, including monetisation features, partner integrations, and platform services
  • Build and scale the Acquisition and Activation streams, improving onboarding, reducing time to first earnings, and embedding viral growth loops
  • Champion engineering performance and reliability, holding your teams accountable to elite DORA metrics
  • Embed a strong P0 post-mortem culture, ensuring incidents lead to real, prioritised improvements
  • Lead, mentor, and develop a team of senior engineers through high-quality 1:1s, coaching, and clear expectations
  • Act as a first point of escalation for incidents, owning reliability under a You Build It, You Run It model
  • Conduct hands-on architectural and code reviews, maintaining a high bar for quality and scalability
  • Monitor and communicate progress across both business KPIs and engineering metrics, using clear, data-driven narratives
  • Proactively manage technical debt to protect long-term velocity

Requirements

  • A senior engineering leader with a deep sense of ownership and accountability
  • Comfortable operating as a player-coach, combining people leadership with hands-on technical judgment
  • Strong experience building and scaling distributed systems on AWS, using modern, containerised architectures
  • Product- and business-minded, able to connect engineering work directly to outcomes like Avg. Earning Per Creator, NRR, and K-Factor
  • Experienced working in high-velocity environments where speed and stability are not trade-offs
  • Fluent in DevOps and reliability metrics, with a proven track record of improving Deployment Frequency, Lead Time, Change Failure Rate, and MTTR
  • A strong communicator with the confidence to challenge priorities, protect quality, and make tough decisions
  • Someone who believes deeply in You Build It, You Run It and leads by example
Benefits
  • Competitive salary aligned with senior engineering management bands
  • Unlimited holiday
  • Remote working
  • Flexible hours, according to when you perform best
  • Budget for growth and wellbeing

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
distributed systemsAWScontainerised architecturesDevOpsDORA metricsDeployment FrequencyLead TimeChange Failure RateMTTRarchitectural reviews
Soft skills
ownershipaccountabilitypeople leadershipcommunicationcoachingmentoringdecision makingprioritizationproblem-solvingteam development