Engineering Manager

Utility Warehouse

Engineering Manager leading technical direction and team support for UW's utilities platform. Collaborating on product priorities while fostering a positive engineering culture.

Posted 5/9/2026full-timeRemote • 🇬🇧 United KingdomJuniorMid-LevelWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

DockerGoGraphQLGRPCKafkaKubernetesReact

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

You’ll work closely with a small team of engineers, supporting both the technical direction and the people behind it.
You create clarity, consistency, and momentum in your squad.
You set direction, ensure high standards in both delivery and quality, and balance short-term goals with long-term sustainability.
You invest in people through coaching, feedback, and development, while fostering a positive team culture.
You communicate effectively across levels, manage complexity, and continuously grow as a leader.
Take responsibility for the technical decisions the squad makes and ensure they align with company and technical strategy.
Define team goals and ensure proposed work is aligned with them.
Identify and put in place practices needed to ensure security and operational service level objectives (SLOs) are met.
Work with the Product Manager and team to set objectives and key results (OKRs) that align with company goals.
Measure team performance so that you can continually improve it.
Ensure the squad is staffed with the technical skillsets to deliver objectives, developing skills within team members.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Knowledge (experience is a bonus) of our core tech stack; gRPC, GraphQL, React, Kafka, Docker & Kubernetes, experience with Go is preferred but not essential.
Experience taking responsibility for technical decisions and aligning them with strategy.
A clear understanding of engineering practices and ability to identify improvements.
Experience defining team goals and driving prioritisation to achieve them.
Ability to work with Product Managers to set OKRs aligned with company goals.
Ability to co-lead annual and quarterly planning.
Experience identifying risks early and mitigating them.
Experience identifying practices for security and SLOs.
Ability to drive operational excellence and lead metrics reviews.
Experience of managing a team of engineers.
Proven ability to onboard, train, develop, and coach reports, as well as participating in performance calibration and promotion reviews.
Intermediate awareness of customer and market insights.
Ability to communicate strategy to the squad.
Experience fostering a healthy team dynamic and resolving interpersonal conflicts.
Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional colleagues.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive salary: We benchmark against the industry and will share the salary openly during our first conversation.
Performance bonus: An annual discretionary bonus ranging from 15-40%.
Flexible working: We’re a remote-first business.
Work-life balance: We offer an optional four-day working week (90% pay for 90% impact).
Work from anywhere: You can work abroad for up to three weeks, twice every tax year.
Holiday: 25 days plus bank holidays (increasing with tenure), with the option to trade up to five days each year.
UW discounts: Save on our services and get a free Cashback Card.
Future planning: Matched-contribution pension scheme and life assurance (up to 4x salary).
Family first: Policies designed to help you and your family thrive.
Flexible benefits: An allowance for private health insurance, dental insurance, or gym membership.
Sabbaticals: An eight-week paid sabbatical after four years of service.
Growth: A dedicated learning and development budget and bi-annual promotion cycles.
Inclusion: Join belonging groups that help shape our culture.
Events: Company-wide celebrations including the ‘Great Big Get Together’ and our ‘Good Hearted Go-Getter Awards’.

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Hard Skills & Tools

gRPCGraphQLReactKafkaDockerKubernetesGoengineering practicessecurity practicesoperational service level objectives

Soft Skills

coachingfeedbackdevelopmentcommunicationleadershipteam culturerisk identificationoperational excellencecollaborationconflict resolution