Engineering Manager

Abtrace is transforming primary care by enabling proactive, preventative healthcare  support 500+ practices and 4.5M patients across the UK, helping teams identify risk earlier, act sooner, and deliver care efficiently - without extra burden.

Our Engineering team builds robust, scalable, and high-impact software that drives real outcomes. As we scale, we’re evolving our culture to move fast, raise the bar, and deliver at startup speed.

• Lead & Scale: Grow, mentor and manage high-performing engineering teams, with a focus on speed, rigor, and accountability.
• Mentor & Grow: Coach engineers to improve technically and professionally, creating a clear growth path.
• Set the Bar: Implement engineering best practices and raise the quality bar across code, architecture, and delivery.
• Transform Culture: Help transition the team from early-stage startup to an elite engineering organization with structure, pace, and intensity.
• Own Delivery: Ensure projects are delivered rapidly, always putting customer needs at the heart of what we do.
• Drive Performance: Cultivate a high-output, high-trust culture where engineers take full ownership and move quickly without sacrificing quality.
• Hire A+ Talent: Recruit, onboard, and retain top engineers who are drawn to a fast, demanding, high growth environment.
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Work closely with Product, Design, and Ops to prioritize and execute.

• Have 3+ years of engineering leadership experience in high-growth startups or scale-ups.
• Have seen scale before and be hungry to build it again
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• Cultivate and support engineering in high-velocity environments with clear KPIs and performance expectations.
• Know how to balance speed with engineering rigor
  —shipping fast, but (rarely) breaking things.
• Are hands‑on enough to jump into code or architecture discussions but know how to delegate and empower.
• Have a strong product mindset
  —you care about outcomes, not just output.
• Are relentless about raising the bar on execution, hiring, and accountability.
• Have some hands‑on experience with Python, React, public cloud environments (AWS preferred), distributed systems (such as Kubernetes), and infrastructure as code.

• Private Pension
• Share Options scheme
• Generous sick and maternity/paternity leave
• As much freedom and independence as you earn, and a chance to grow rapidly as the company does.
• Flexi and hybrid working
• Company's office in Paddington - easy commute and comfortable surroundings
• Motivated, highly functioning, multi-disciplinary team