Engineering Manager

📍Hybrid (London Hub)

Does this sound like you?

You're a strategic and hands-on technical leader who thrives in fast-paced environments where innovation meets accountability . With strong stakeholder management, mentoring skills, and a keen eye for scalable architecture, you’re passionate about building high-performing teams, driving delivery , and making a measurable impact across products and platforms. You don’t just deliver solutions - you build the foundation for sustained excellence.

What you’ll be doing (in a nutshell):

As Engineering Manager, you’ll lead a talented squad of software engineers, helping them grow, collaborate, and deliver best-in-class web and mobile applications. Your role will blend technical leadership with people management, giving you the chance to influence everything from architecture and delivery practices to career development and team culture.

Day-to-day you can expect to:

• Lead, mentor, and support a high-performing team of engineers
• Own and deliver high-quality, scalable web and mobile features
• Partner closely with Product, Design, and Data to bring ideas to life
• Contribute to event-driven architecture and concurrent application design
• Guide technical direction and promote engineering best practices
• Champion code quality, testing coverage, and system performance
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues to ensure high availability
• Collaborate with DevOps to monitor and optimise deployments
• Stay hands-on where needed, reviewing code and contributing to decisions
• Support recruitment, onboarding, and long-term team development

To be successful, you'll have:

• Demonstrated experience leading high-performing engineering teams
• Proven expertise in scaling large, service-oriented architectures
• A strong background in designing and delivering data-intensive applications
• Deep knowledge of RDBMS and NoSQL technologies (e.g. MySQL, Redis, DynamoDB)
• A solid understanding of modern software architecture patterns
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and cross-functional delivery

Bonus points if you bring:

• Experience with Go and event-driven concurrency (goroutines, channels)
• A background in cloud platforms (preferably AWS)
• Exposure to AI-driven engineering practices
• Comfort across front-end or back-end stacks (React, Angular, Golang, RoR)
• A strong grasp of data and application security
• Experience collaborating with Product, QA, Design, and Data teams

Why Perkbox Vivup?

In an exciting stride forward for both organisations, employee benefits experts Perkbox and Vivup have joined forces to create a world-class benefits, wellbeing, and engagement platform.

With over two decades of combined experience, our goal is to enable more organisations to better support and engage their employees — something which has become essential in the wake of a global pandemic and a hard-hitting cost-of-living crisis.  

From enhancing access to specialist mental health services to helping staff manage the cost of everyday essentials, our combined strengths and best-in-class solutions will create a super partnership that supports employees in all areas of life, at every stage of their career, both in and out of the workplace.

As a combined entity, we can assist more employees than ever before to live and work better through our combined expertise in the public, private, SME, and corporate sectors. Today, we collectively support more than 4 million employees across 7,500 organisations through an enhanced range of benefits and engagement solutions.  Our vision is to create healthy, happy and engaged workforces by reinventing employee benefits. Together, we’re positioned to revolutionise the employee benefits landscape, driving innovation, setting new standards, and shaping the future with transformative solutions that redefine wellbeing.

The Interview Process

Our interview process involves 4 main stages:

1. Intro call with Talent Acquisition – 15 minutes

2. Hiring Manager screening – 60 minutes

3. Technical design round – 120 minutes

4. Final round – 90 minutes total

Our average process takes around 2-3 weeks, but we will always work around your availability. You will have the chance to speak to our recruitment team at various points during your process. If you have any specific questions ahead of this, please contact us on [email protected]

We’re committed to being an inclusive employer and creating a fair workplace for all. We encourage applications from candidates across all backgrounds, circumstances, ages, disabilities, ethnicities, religions or beliefs, gender identities, or sexual orientations

We're happy to offer reasonable adjustments during our hiring process. Just let us know, and we'll make it work for you. Your comfort and success matter to us!