Software Engineering Manager

Overview

Full-Stack Engineering Manager (hands-on)

You've built products end-to-end at a startup and you're good at it. But lately you spend more time in process than in problems. You want somewhere the engineering is actually hard and your code has real-world consequences.

This is a lead full-stack role at a seed-stage climate tech company. The platform is used daily by hundreds of businesses, and the engineering problems are unusual: 2D geometry, offline-first sync in a relational database, computer vision tooling, hardware integrations. Not CRUD.

Responsibilities

• Own a core domain end-to-end, from discovery with product and design, architecture calls, build, ship, and measure.
• Engage directly with users (every engineer participates in regular customer support rotations).
• After approximately three months of individual contributor work to learn the codebase, assume line management of a squad. Shape the balance of code versus people leadership.
• Contribute to a small, deliberately filtered team environment and help navigate the challenges of a growing seed-stage company.

Team and Company Context

The team is small, deliberately so, and seriously filtered. Hundreds of candidates are screened per role. Everyone who joins says two things: the people are better than expected, and they feel slightly out of their depth. That’s by design.

The company closed an oversubscribed seed round, is past 1m ARR with strong product-market fit, and has over two years of runway. The current product is a wedge into a much larger market. There is a lot to build across new product lines, new verticals, and new countries over the next 18 months.

Location, Compensation, and Benefits

£90-123k + equity (4-year vest, 1-year cliff). London or Bristol, hybrid (2+ days in office), 33 days holiday.

Requirements

• 4+ years commercial full-stack experience
• React, any back-end language (ideally Node/TypeScript)
• Relational DB skills
• Real product mindset (you do discovery before you code)

How to Apply

If this sounds like you, drop across your CV and I’m happy to share more over a quick call.

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