Software Engineering Manager

Company: Urban Jungle
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Location: London
Job Description:

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of professional experience working as a software engineer with proven experience leading engineering teams, either through direct line management or project leadership
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  • You’re fluent in and opinionated on one or more of:
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  • Front-End Javascript frameworks (we work with Angular)
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  • Python
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  • You’ve got experience with (or are at least excited to learn more about!):
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  • Front-End/UX design and prototyping
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  • Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, RabbitMQ, AWS, SQL
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  • You’ll be confident using your technical expertise to influence key decisions about how we design, build, and grow our products and systems
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  • You’re excited about supporting and growing a group of engineers, helping them become the best engineers they can be
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  • You’re comfortable working through ambiguous problems with a high degree of autonomy
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  • You treat everyone with integrity, respect and kindness – whether it’s your colleagues, our customers, or our partners

What the job involves

  • You’ll lead groups of engineers whilst collaborating across the business to ensure we continue to build products that delight our customers, working on everything from shipping new commercial partnerships to improving our claims experience, to building a world class technology platform
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  • You’ll hit the ground running, embedding with one of our existing teams so you can build key relationships across the business, get up to speed with our tech stack quickly, and start shipping valuable features within your first few weeks
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  • We’ll start you off in areas where you have the most experience and then gradually give you exposure to the rest of our services to build out your expertise
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  • In this role, you’ll work closely with our Engineering Director, Ben, as well as getting lots of exposure to our senior leadership team – who’ve previously led some of the world’s fastest-growing businesses – as you play a pivotal role in achieving our company’s growth plans
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  • You’ll collaborate with teams across the business to build real value and shape the future of the company – think product launches, partner integrations, and platform-wide improvements
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  • You will be managing the day-to-day of a team of engineers, responsible for delivering one or more of our cross-functional projects – ensuring we are optimising for impact, and that we consistently get better at the way we do them
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  • You’ll be a member of our engineering leadership group, working with them to develop our engineering strategy and refine our team-level approach
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  • You will be responsible for managing multiple direct reports and will have opportunities to mentor and sponsor engineers across the team

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Posted: May 28th, 2026