Engineering Manager

Join our team as an Engineering Manager, where you'll lead a high-performing engineering team, improve our platform and customer experience, and drive impactful change. This role is focused on people, technology, and delivery, and offers the opportunity to take ownership of our internal tooling and customer portal. You'll also help drive improvements in AI engineering practices and delivery.

Provide technical leadership and strategic direction, helping shape the platform roadmap and ensuring engineering priorities support our wider business goals.

If you’re a hands-on engineering leader who takes ownership, builds great teams, understands the customer and enjoys turning complex challenges into simple, scalable solutions, we’d love to hear from you

About Thredd

Champion quality, scalability, reliability and modern engineering practices

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a high-performing engineering team, fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Drive engineering delivery and prioritization, removing blockers and ensuring high-quality work is delivered at pace.

Requirements

• The ability to see the bigger picture and connect engineering activity to wider business objectives
• A good understanding of software development, Agile methodologies and modern engineering practices
• Experience using AI technologies to improve our platform and ways of working
• The ability to build trusted relationships quickly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Technical credibility is important, but deep hands-on coding experience is not
• A strong track record of delivering complex technology projects successfully, on evolution of our customer-facing platform
• Proven experience leading and developing a high-performing engineering teams and/or Engineering Managers
• A proactive, delivery-focused mindset with a strong sense of ownership and accountability
• Excellent people management, communication and stakeholder management skills
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple teams, priorities and projects
• Experience managing third-party development teams, suppliers or technology partners