Engineering Manager

Drive direct growth at a high scale insurtech pioneer

Location: London (Hybrid, 3 days per week in office)

Traditional insurance reacts to accidents after they happen. This fast growing scale up is changing that by using real time, data driven insights to prevent accidents before they occur.

Backed by more than £50 million in funding and approaching one billion connected, insured miles, the business is building the next generation insurance platform for connected and autonomous vehicle fleets.

To support its next phase of growth, the company is launching a dedicated Acquisition Team
. This team is responsible for building the products and systems that enable global delivery, logistics, and ride hailing businesses to onboard and scale on the platform.

As the Engineering Lead
, you'll play a pivotal role in driving technical delivery, shaping architecture, and developing engineers while remaining hands on with coding.

You’ll partner closely with a Product Manager to lead the Acquisition Team, balancing technical leadership with hands on software engineering.

• Co own the technical roadmap, planning and delivery of growth focused products
• Build and maintain high quality, well tested Type Script services within an API driven platform
• Design and evolve scalable AWS serverless architecture
• Improve engineering quality through code reviews, pair programming and technical mentoring
  
  Enhance developer experience by improving CI/CD pipelines, observability and deployment processes
• Empower engineers to lead projects and make sound technical decisions
• Balance long term architectural thinking with fast paced product delivery

The ideal candidate enjoys solving meaningful technical challenges while helping others grow. You’ll thrive in a collaborative, product led environment where engineering directly influences commercial success.

• Experience leading or co leading an engineering team alongside Product
• Strong commercial experience with Type Script
• Proven experience building and operating production systems on AWS
• Hands on experience with modern serverless architectures
• Passion for mentoring engineers and raising engineering standards
• Excellent communication skills with both technical and non technical stakeholders

• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code, including Terraform or AWS CDK
• Experience influencing technical direction across multiple teams
• Previous experience in a fast growing product led scale up

This is an opportunity to join a mission driven technology company at a key stage of growth, where your work will have a direct impact on both the business and millions of drivers.

• Build products that are transforming road safety and vehicle insurance
• Annual personal learning budget
• Funded professional qualifications
• Private medical insurance, including dental, optical and mental health support
• Enhanced parental leave
• Salary sacrifice schemes including nursery, gym membership, Cycle to Work and electric vehicle options*