Engineering Manager (London)

Engineering Manager

Sumup

About the team: At SumUp, we're on a mission to bring merchants and consumers closer together and help local communities thrive. With SumUp Consumer, we're building a rewarding banking experience that connects people to the small businesses they love while enabling free transactions for our merchants. SumUp Consumer helps consumers manage their money with ease and get more from everyday spending. It offers seamless payment experiences and financial tools designed for modern life—spanning banking, cards, savings, and open banking. This is a high-impact Engineering Manager role where you'll lead a cross-functional team of backend, iOS, and Android engineers building the systems and experiences that power SumUp Consumer. You'll be responsible for the reliability, quality, and pace of delivery across features that consumers interact with every day—while growing a team that takes real ownership of what they ship. You'll work closely with Product and Design to turn ambitious ideas into production-grade products, and you'll help shape the technical direction of a consumer experience that's still defining itself. This is a role for someone who stays close enough to the technology to make good calls, and cares enough about people to make the team genuinely good at what they do.   What you’ll do: * Lead and build a high-performing team by coaching, mentoring, and supporting engineers in their growth and development. * Stay hands-on with technology—contributing to system design, reviewing code, and guiding technical decisions to ensure high-quality, scalable solutions. * Partner closely with Product and Design to define goals, translate user needs into technical solutions, and deliver impactful features. * Drive execution and delivery, balancing speed and quality while ensuring reliable and scalable backend systems. * Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, product, and business teams to align priorities and make thoughtful trade-offs. * Shape the engineering culture by promoting best practices, ownership, and continuous improvement. * Advocate for the user, ensuring we build products that truly improve the experience for local merchants and consumers.   You’ll be great for this role if you have: * A strong backend or mobile engineering background, with hands-on experience building distributed systems, APIs, and scalable services. * Proven experience as an Engineering Manager (2+ years), with a track record of leading, mentoring, and growing high-performing engineering teams. * A hands-on mindset—you enjoy staying close to the code, contributing to technical decisions, and tackling complex challenges, not just managing from a distance. * Experience with modern technologies such as Go, Kotlin, Python, or similar, along with cloud-native environments (e.g., AWS, Docker, Kubernetes) or relevant mobile engineering tools. * A product-oriented approach, with the ability to make pragmatic decisions and thoughtful trade-offs in a fast-paced environment. * Strong communication skills, with the ability to bring clarity, alignment, and influence across both technical and non-technical stakeholders. * An empathetic leadership style, with a focus on team well-being, continuous feedback, and professional growth. * Adaptable and action-oriented, comfortable navigating ambiguity and shifting priorities with confidence.   Why you should join SumUp: * Opportunity to work with a truly global, multicultural team from our central London Bridge location, wrapped in historic charm and modern flair. This involves an office-first setup * Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion: be part of a workplace that values and promotes diversity, fostering an inclusive environment where everyone's perspectives are respected and embraced * Enrolment onto our VSOP program: you will own a stake in SumUp’s future success * Generous time off: enjoy 28 days of paid leave, plus bank holidays and special leaves * Health matters: Vitality health cover, including optical and dental * Life made easier: salary-sacrifice commuter benefits via Gogeta * Financial security: retirement scheme (SumUp matches 7% when you contribute 5%) * Peace of mind: life insurance from MetLife for 2× your salary * Break4me: 1-month sabbatical after 3 years of service * Referral Bonus: earn additional rewards by referring talented individuals to join the SumUp team   About us: Be empowered to do more that matters. At SumUp, we're on a mission to empower small businesses across the globe by providing simple and affordable tools that allow them to thrive. Today, over 4 million businesses in 36 markets rely on SumUp as their financial partner to manage payments, finance and customer relationships. Our commitment to small businesses is reflected in our diverse team of over 3,000 SumUppers from over 90 nationalities, united by global collaboration and an innovative mindset. Our core values lay the foundation for who we are and what we stand for, shaping our work culture and driving our success. We foster inclusivity and a continuous learning culture, providing a safe space for personal and professional growth. Our differences make us unique and strong as we strive to create an environment where everyone belongs and feels supported, no matter how they identify.  SumUp is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, actively seeking and embracing diversity in our workforce. We don't make hiring or employment decisions based on race, colour, religion or religious belief, ethnic or national origin, nationality, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age or any other basis protected by applicable laws or prohibited by company policy. Our commitment extends beyond recruitment to creating a safe and respectful workplace where harassment of any form is strictly prohibited. Explore career opportunities with us and join a team driven by collaboration, innovation, and a shared vision of creating a world where everyone can build a thriving business. Discover more about our vibrant and inclusive work culture and how we work on our careers website, and follow our journey on LinkedIn and Instagram. Job Application Tip We recognise that candidates feel they need to meet 100% of the job criteria in order to apply for a job. Please note that this is only a guide. If you don’t tick every box, it’s ok too because it means you have room to learn and develop your career at SumUp.

Engineering Manager - Lakebase Storage

Databricks

P-1534 At Databricks, we are passionate about enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems. We do this by building and running the world's best data and AI infrastructure platform so our customers can use deep data insights to improve their business.  As an Engineering Manager, you will work with your team to build mission-critical Lakebase services on the Databricks Platform at scale. Lakebase enables teams to deliver applications faster with an optimized database developer experience, integration with the lakehouse, and simplified operations. It provides a managed Postgres transactional layer for application state and workloads that combine operational data, analytics, and AI. You'll join as one of the founding engineering leaders to build out both the Lakebase product and our London presence.  Key responsibilities include: * Drive continuous delivery within a team of experts in storage technology, distributed systems and Rust. * Manage the development and rollout of storage services that host millions of customer databases across dozens of regions * Partner with peer engineering teams across Databricks to co-evolve Lakebase services with our global infrastructure. * Lead operational excellence in 24/7 operation of our system The impact you will have: * Hire great engineers to build an outstanding team. * Support engineers in their career development by providing clear feedback and develop engineering leaders. * Ensure high technical standards by instituting processes (architecture reviews, testing) and culture (engineering excellence). * Work with engineering and product leadership to build a long-term roadmap. * Coordinate execution and collaborate across teams to unblock cross-cutting projects. What we look for: * Experience with building and shipping storage systems where correctness and performance are essential * BS (or higher) in Computer Science, or a related field * 2+ years of experience building and leading a team of engineers working in a related system * Experience with build, release and deployment infrastructure technologies such as Spinnaker, Jenkins, Airflow, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Bazel, etc. * Ability to attract, hire, and coach engineers who meet the Databricks hiring standards - can up level existing team via hiring top-notch senior talent, growing leaders and helping struggling members; can gain trust of the team and guide their careers * Comfort working on cross-functional projects with the ability to deeply understand product and customer personas About Databricks Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. Benefits At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region click here. Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. Compliance If access to export-controlled technology or source code is required for performance of job duties, it is within Employer's discretion whether to apply for a U.S. government license for such positions, and Employer may decline to proceed with an applicant on this basis alone.

Engineering Manager - AI platform

Flo Health

500M+ downloads. 80M+ monthly users. A decade of building – and we’re still accelerating. Flo is the world’s #1 health & fitness app worldwide on a mission to build a better future for female health. Backed by a $200M investment led by General Atlantic, we became the first product of our kind to reach a $1B valuation in 2024 – and we’re not slowing down. With 7M paid subscribers and the highest-rated experience in the App Store’s health category, we’ve spent 10 years earning trust at scale. Now, we’re building the next generation of digital health – AI-powered, privacy-first, clinically backed – to help our users know their body better. The job Flo Health is the world’s most popular women’s health app, supporting over 80 million monthly active users. As our Engineering Manager for the AI Platform, you will lead the core team that builds the shared infrastructure powering every AI feature at Flo—from our chatbot and cycle predictions to personalized health insights.   We don’t just use AI; we build the systems that make it possible at scale. You will work in an environment where we maintain direct technical partnerships with Databricks, OpenAI, Anthropic, and AWS, moving far beyond standard vendor relationships.   The Environment   Our AI Platform team is embedded directly in product delivery, working in cross-functional squads alongside our Data Platform team and external model partners. We operate with a clear but fluid strategy — iterating quickly based on rapid AI/LLM advancements and real-time metrics. You will manage a dynamic environment where roughly 30% of the team's work is reactive, driven by immediate product needs, while maintaining focus on our long-term roadmap.   What You’ll Do * Lead & Empower: Manage a team of senior engineers using a distributed leadership model. You’ll provide the management layer that supports their technical execution, performance, and career growth. * Own the Roadmap: Translate product and company goals into clear team roadmaps, managing the balance between structured delivery and the reactive, business-driven work essential to a platform team. * Drive Delivery: Coordinate cross-pod dependencies, resolve blockers, and track roadmap milestones. * Technical Stewardship: Participate in architectural reviews and provide hands-on technical guidance (~20% of your time). You’ll help the team maintain high standards for safety, medical compliance, and performance. * Cross-Functional Impact: Act as the primary point of contact for stakeholders across Product, Analytics, and Engineering, while representing Flo’s AI vision to our industry partners. What you bring: * Engineering Leadership: Proven track record managing engineering teams in fast-moving product environments. You know how to build high-performing teams, mentor talent, and hire effectively. * AI/ML Infrastructure Depth: You have direct, hands-on experience leading or building ML systems in production. You understand MLOps, model serving, or AI platform engineering. * The "Manager-as-Leader" Mindset: You aren't looking to spend your day coding, but you have the technical depth to participate in architecture discussions and credibly guide technical trade-offs. * Agile & Stakeholder Savvy: You are comfortable operating where priorities shift. You know how to protect roadmap momentum while absorbing urgent requests. * Collaborative Spirit: You thrive in cross-functional setups and understand how to manage diverse teams in an agile environment. Why Join Flo? * Massive Scale: Your work will directly impact millions of users. * Cutting-Edge Tech: Work at the intersection of AI and healthcare, with deep integration into modern LLM stacks and ML infrastructure. * High Visibility: This role offers significant industry exposure, including potential opportunities to present our evaluation platforms at events alongside our technology partners. How we work We’re a mission-led, product-driven team. We move fast, stay focused and take ownership – from brief to build to impact. Debate is encouraged. Decisions are shared. We care about craft, ship with purpose, and always raise the bar. You’ll be working with people who take their work seriously, not themselves. It takes commitment, resilience, and the drive to keep going when things get tough. Because better health outcomes are worth it.  What you'll get We support impact with meaningful reward. Here’s what that looks like: * Competitive salary and annual reviews * Opportunity to participate in Flo’s performance incentive scheme * Paid holiday, sick leave, and female health leave * Enhanced parental leave and pay for maternity, paternity, same-sex and adoptive parents * Accelerated professional growth through world-changing work and learning support * In-person collaboration and work in a hybrid model, with 3 days per week spent in the office * 5-week fully paid sabbatical at 5-year Floversary * Flo Premium for friends & family, plus more health, pension and wellbeing perks Diversity, equity and inclusion Our strength is in our differences. At Flo, hiring is based on merit, skill and what you bring to the role – nothing else. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds, communities and identities. Read our privacy notice for job applicants.