Bjak - Engineering Manager – United Kingdom

• Strong software engineering background with experience building and shipping real production systems. • Experience leading or managing software engineers and owning engineering delivery. • Strong technical depth across backend, frontend, APIs, databases, distributed systems or cloud infrastructure. • Able to make sound architecture and technical trade-offs while balancing speed, scalability and maintainability. • Strong track record of taking products or systems from idea through development, launch and production. • Comfortable reviewing technical designs, challenging engineering decisions and debugging complex production issues. • Strong people leadership with the ability to coach engineers, manage performance and build high-performing teams. • Strong product sense and ability to connect engineering decisions to customer and business outcomes. • Able to work fast with ambiguity, establish priorities and drive teams toward clear outcomes. • Strong ownership mentality — when something breaks or delivery slips, you take responsibility for getting it back on track. • This Role Is Not For • Managers who want to manage people without staying close to the technology. • Engineers who want the title of Engineering Manager but do not want accountability for team performance. • Leaders who need complete specifications before their team can start. • Managers who measure success by meetings, processes or tickets instead of shipped outcomes. • People who avoid difficult technical decisions, performance conversations or production issues. • Candidates who make vague leadership claims without being able to explain what they personally built, led, improved or scaled. • The Bar • The Bar • We are looking for engineering leaders with real technology career highlights. • A strong highlight is not just managing a large team or working at a famous company. A strong highlight means you personally helped build, ship or scale a serious product, platform or engineering organisation and can clearly explain your contribution. • You should be able to demonstrate both sides of engineering leadership: technical depth and the ability to build a high-performing team that consistently delivers. • Location • This is a hybrid role. You are expected to work from our local office at least 3 days per week, with the remaining days offering flexibility to work remotely. • hybrid role • 3 days per week • Language • English is our main working language across global teams. Strong English communication is required.