Engineering Manager - Partner Proposition

Location: London, United Kingdom; hybrid workplace

Company

hirify.global provides energy, broadband, mobile, and insurance services through a single-bill proposition.

What you will do

• Lead a small engineering squad, setting technical direction and ensuring decisions align with company and engineering strategy.
• Define team goals, drive prioritisation, and balance new development with ongoing improvements.
• Establish practices for security, operational excellence, SLOs, metrics, performance, and on-call coverage.
• Co-lead annual and quarterly planning with the Product Manager, manage risks and blockers, and communicate progress against OKRs and KPIs.
• Hire, onboard, develop, coach, and support engineers through performance calibration and promotion reviews.
• Foster a healthy team culture, resolve interpersonal conflicts, communicate organisational changes, and collaborate with UX, data, and other cross-functional colleagues.

Requirements

• Knowledge of the core technology stack: gRPC, GraphQL, React, Kafka, Docker, and Kubernetes; Go is preferred but not essential.
• Experience taking responsibility for technical decisions, aligning them with strategy, and improving engineering practices.
• Experience defining team goals, driving prioritisation, identifying risks, and mitigating blockers.
• Ability to work with Product Managers to set company-aligned OKRs and co-lead annual and quarterly planning.
• Experience establishing practices for security and SLOs, driving operational excellence, and leading metrics reviews.
• Experience managing a team of engineers and onboarding, training, developing, and coaching reports.
• Experience participating in performance calibration and promotion reviews.
• Intermediate awareness of customer and market insights, with the ability to communicate strategy to the squad.
• Experience fostering a healthy team dynamic, resolving interpersonal conflicts, and collaborating with cross-functional colleagues.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first business with a hybrid workplace; work abroad is permitted for up to three weeks twice per tax year.
• Competitive salary, openly discussed during the first conversation, plus a discretionary annual performance bonus of 15–40%.
• 25 days of holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to trade up to five days annually.
• Matched-contribution pension, life assurance up to four times salary, and flexible health, dental, or gym benefits.
• Learning and development budget, bi-annual promotion cycles, inclusion groups, and company events.
• Successful candidates are subject to a background check.

Hiring process

• Apply through the vacancy application link.
• Salary details will be shared during the first conversation.
• Successful candidates must complete a background check; unsatisfactory or incomplete checks may lead to withdrawal of an offer.