Engineering Manager – Platform & Infrastructure
Prolific
CloudKubernetes
Head of Engineering
Odin
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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Lead
About the role
- Reporting to Paddy, our Co-CEO, you'll lead and grow a team of ~7 engineers, fostering a high-performing, low-ego culture grounded in accountability, ownership, and technical excellence
- Build psychological safety and trust so everyone feels comfortable raising issues, asking questions, and giving feedback
- Deliver regular, actionable feedback and run fair, evidence-based reviews that set clear expectations for growth and delivery
- Work closely with Product to deliver high-quality releases that customers love, balancing speed, quality, and maintainability
- Own and continuously improve processes across QA, support, and incident response, ensuring reliability and operational excellence
- Hire exceptional engineers, define the bar, and coach others to interview and assess effectively
- Guide architectural decisions, coding standards, and security practices; stay technically credible and hands-on when needed
- Align engineering priorities with company goals, communicating progress, risks, and trade-offs clearly across teams
- Promote responsible, effective use of AI tools to improve productivity, quality, and developer experience
- Use data and reflection to drive continuous improvement in speed, reliability, and team experience
- Balance technical investment with commercial impact, ensuring engineering decisions drive customer and business value
Requirements
- Successful Track Record in Engineering Management: You’ve demonstrated the ability to build and shape organisational culture through intentional, mindful actions.
- You’re a Relationship Builder: You understand that your relationship with the founders and senior management should be built on trust.
- Exceptional Hiring Skills: You have a demonstrated ability to build exceptional teams.
- Experience Managing and Building a Strong Feedback Culture: You know what it takes to build an environment where feedback thrives.
- You Have Built a Culture of Speed and Urgency in a Startup: You know how to achieve it without compromising on quality.
- You Communicate Intentionally and Proactively: You understand the role communication plays in building trust.
Benefits
- Remote-Friendly: Work from anywhere, with the flexibility to use our London office or co-working spaces every Wednesday
- Flexible Working: Work remotely with flexible hours between 7 AM and 10 PM
- Health: Private health insurance (Vitality), paid sick leave (including support for pregnancy loss and fertility treatments), and free access to Spill for mental health support
- Wellness: £1,000 annual budget for health and wellness therapy, or fitness
- Parental Leave: Enhanced maternity, adoption, paternity, and partner leave
- Home Office Support: £900 budget for setup + local co-working space options
- Pension: 4% employer contribution, with salary sacrifice options and NI savings reinvested into your pension
- Time Off: 25 days of annual leave, 2 wellness days, and flexible bank holidays (33 days total)
- Birthday Leave: An extra day off to celebrate your birthday
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
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Soft skills
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