omnea - Engineering Manager
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Requirements
• We're looking for an ambitious and talented Engineering Manager to join Omnea, the UK's #1 Startup in 2026 https://startups.co.uk/startups-100/2026/omnea/, as part of our Engineering leadership team. • As we grow from tens to hundreds of enterprise customers and through 10x revenue growth in the next 2-3 years, you'll play a crucial role in building and leading the best Engineering function in its category. You'll be responsible for multiple teams, ensuring we ship high-quality solutions while maintaining the velocity a fast-growing environment demands. You'll operate with high autonomy, collaborating closely with other EMs, Team Leads, and Product to drive real impact. • You have 8+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years managing engineering teams • You've successfully managed multiple teams simultaneously (typically 2-3 teams / 12-20 engineers) • You've demonstrated success in fast-moving, ambiguous environments, particularly in rapid-growth periods • Ideally, you have experience as an Engineering Manager at multiple companies, including at least one successful Series A+ SaaS company • Technical Excellence: • Strong technical background with hands-on experience in modern web technologies • Deep understanding of distributed systems, cloud architecture (preferably AWS), and scalability challenges • Experience with our stack (TypeScript, React, AWS Serverless) is a plus, but not required • Track Record of Impact: • Strong track record of successful project delivery in fast-paced environments • Proven history of improving team velocity and quality • Experience scaling engineering teams through rapid growth • Experience implementing engineering processes that scale effectively at pace • Experience working directly with customers and translating their needs into technical solutions • Leadership Style: • You're data-driven but know when to trust intuition • You're comfortable making decisions with incomplete information • You excel at collaboration and influence across teams and stakeholders • You have a track record of growing and developing engineering talent • Nice to haves that really stand out to us: • Track record of successful product launches in B2B SaaS • Experience with procurement / finance systems • History of contributions to engineering communities • You can learn more about Engineering at Omnea and our hiring process via our R&D Candidate Hub here. https://omnea.notion.site/R-D-Candidate-Hub-2f688cce658780f1b942c81cd3a032d4 • At Omnea, we embrace diversity. To build a product that's loved by everyone, we're best served by a team with all sorts of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn't quite match the full job spec! And regardless of your race, religion, colour, gender, or anything else! If you think you could be a good fit for Omnea, please reach out. • A FEW THINGS TO NOTE: • We work Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays in-person at our offices. At this early stage of our company life-cycle it's important to us that we get this together-time, and you can read more about why we believe this is a winning move here https://www.omnea.co/documents/why-omnea-is-not-fully-remote • We're commercial, ambitious and we don't pretend otherwise! We're actively seeking folks looking to make the most of a career-defining opportunity, with the hunger to be part of building something really impressive. You can see our values here https://www.omnea.co/careers • We sometimes use AI note-takers to help us transcribe interview notes, so we can be more present in your interview. If you'd like to opt out of us using automatic transcribers, please note this in the free text field in your application, otherwise we'll take your application as confirmation that you're happy for us to use notetakers (whether added to video calls or in the background). • We are proud to be recognised for both our culture and product, and we are just getting started. Join us as we grow! • [https://app.ashbyhq.com/api/images/user-content/aabd8e71-1f63-4593-a3bd-fb92bb6599c3/ff7ecdae-2753-4ef3-a742-f3c3e246eb2d/image%20(13).png] • ADDITIONALLY, WHERE ROLES HAVE HARD-SPECIFIED REQUIREMENTS (E.G. DAYS IN OFFICE, UNABLE TO PROVIDE VISAS, ETC), IF IN YOUR APPLICATION YOU PROVIDE DETERMINISTIC CHECK-BOX CONFIRMATION THAT YOU DO NOT MEET THE HARD-SPECIFIED REQUIREMENTS, DETERMINISTIC (NOT AI OR SUBJECTIVE) AUTOMATIC REJECTION CRITERIA ARE IN PLACE.
Responsibilities
• Build and lead high-performing teams: • Lead multiple engineering teams, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement • Drive engineering best practices, quality standards, and high performance • Mentor and develop engineers, helping them grow their careers and impact • Collaborate with Product, Design, Team Leads and other key stakeholders on team structures and deliveries to ensure optimal outcomes • Drive technical excellence: • Implement and refine engineering processes that scale • Facilitate architectural decisions that impact multiple teams • Champion quality improvements across teams while maintaining high velocity • Ensure robust monitoring, observability, and incident response processes • Shape technical product strategy: • Partner with Product leadership to define and execute our technical roadmap • Balance technical debt, feature development, and system reliability with other deliverables • Ensure customer feedback drives technical priorities • Teams and products you might end up working on: • Accounting and Goods Receipting - ensuring procurement and finance teams have the right information and tools to operate accurately, automatically, and at scale • Insights and Reporting - deep, complex custom visualisations bringing together AI and data to surface meaningful insights and context across the platform • Sourcing - building the tools that find the right suppliers, shape the right deals, and make sure the best option is already in play before a request is even created • Workflow Orchestration - the configurable backbone of our systems that accurately model company operations, underpinning a single source of truth • And many more areas we’re actively starting or expanding upon!
Benefits
• Engineering Manager£110K – £150K • Offers Equity • Our compensation is based on your levelling during the interview process, which we'll assess throughout the interviews. • Upload your resume here to autofill key application fields. • Drop your resume here! • Parsing your resume. Autofilling key fields... • Please Note: we have set up limits for applications for our roles. The following limits apply to applications for all jobs at Omnea: • Candidates may not apply more than 2 times in any 120 day span to Omnea roles. • or drag and drop here • cash comp per annum • We will assess your CV/Application against the likelihood of your being at the level/point-in-bandings the cash compensation indicates and progress/reject CVs/Applications accordingly. • Please note we continuously assess level throughout the interview process, and final offers are strictly contingent upon the eventual levelling (rather than any number specified here). • NB: We also offer the opportunity for some roles to flex or 'swap' a portion of the cash and equity offered. • Therefore, the upper end of the cash band shown here and the lower end of the equity band shown here involve this swap. This also accounts for the appearance of 'overlap' between our compensation bands shown for these roles. • (It's therefore not possible to end up at both the top (or bottom) of both cash & equity bands simultaneously) • Our ATS (Ashby) will usually surface what it thinks your most recent company is, but if you want to draw our attention to key companies you've worked for, here's the place • Please let us know where you are based now in terms of permanent residency. This helps us assess timelines for visa & relocation (if required) • No, I require a visa to work in this location but already have my own. • No, I already have the necessary right to work in this location. • I would need Omnea to provide a visa or other work authorisation support. (Please tell us more in the free text field lower down!) • You can read more here about why this is important to us at this stage of our company journey. • I am happy to come into the office Tues-Thurs • Being in-person Tues-Thurs isn't viable for me • I am happy to be employed as a permanent employee
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