Orbital

Engineering Manager

Orbital

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: London • United Kingdom

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About the role

  • Own engineering of the Curie platform
  • Architecture: Define and evolve the technical blueprint for Curie, ensuring scalability, security, and maintainability.
  • Quality: Establish and enforce rigorous standards for code quality, testing, monitoring, and overall system reliability.
  • Delivery: Drive efficient and predictable delivery of high-quality software features in alignment with product goals and timelines.
  • Build and scale the team
  • Hiring: Lead the recruitment process for new engineers, focusing on attracting top-tier talent that aligns with Orbital's technical and cultural requirements.
  • Mentoring: Provide guidance, support, and professional development opportunities to the engineering team to foster continuous growth and skill enhancement.
  • Establishing engineering culture as we grow internationally: Define, promote, and maintain a high-performance, collaborative, and inclusive engineering culture across all current and future global offices.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a focus on backend engineering, with at least 2 years in a technical leadership or management role.
  • Proven experience shipping and iterating on user-facing products, with a strong sense of what makes software useful, reliable and delightful
  • The ability to move fluently between hands-on engineering and people management
  • Strong product instincts and the ability to partner closely with product, design and stakeholders to shape roadmaps, make scope trade-offs and deliver meaningful outcomes
  • Solid engineering fundamentals with the ability to set high standards for code quality, system architecture and engineering practices across a team
  • Experience building and growing high-performing engineering teams — hiring, developing talent, giving clear feedback, and creating an environment where people do the best work of their careers
  • Can balance technical depth with strategic thinking.
  • A genuine interest in building software that enables breakthrough scientific and industrial applications, and the ability to translate that ambition into concrete plans a team can rally behind
  • Bonus: Previous experience working in an AI/ML environment - you don't need to be an ML engineer, but familiarity with the workflows, tooling and pace of AI teams is a real advantage
Benefits
  • Competitive salary and equity package - the ability to own part of Orbital as we grow
  • Flexible and generous paid time off
  • Excellent health, dental and vision insurance plan
  • Regular company off-sites to the USA and beyond
  • The experience of working in a cutting-edge organisation dedicated to a better future
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
backend engineeringcode qualitysystem architecturesoftware developmenttestingmonitoringscalabilitysecuritysoftware deliveryAI/ML familiarity
Soft Skills
technical leadershipmentoringteam buildingcollaborationcommunicationstrategic thinkingproduct instinctsfeedbackprofessional developmentinclusive culture