Engineering Manager

Company: Admiral Group Plc
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Location: Cardiff
Job Description:

What You’ll Be Doing

  • Leading, coaching, and developing a team of engineers through regular feedback, mentoring, and structured career development, helping individuals grow and perform at their best.
  • Creating an inclusive, high-performing team culture that promotes ownership, accountability, psychological safety, and continuous learning.
  • Partnering closely with Product and Design to deliver high-impact features and meaningful improvements that solve real customer problems.
  • Enabling teams to deliver at pace without compromising on quality, reliability, and scalability, balancing speed with strong engineering standards.
  • Collaborating with other engineering leaders to continuously improve engineering practices, systems, processes, and overall team effectiveness.
  • Proactively identifying delivery risks and dependencies, removing blockers early to keep teams moving and deliveries on track.

Qualifications

  • Proven experience managing software engineering teams within a startup or scale-up environment, with an understanding of the pace, ambiguity, and challenges that come with scaling technology and teams.
  • Demonstrated ability to build high-performing, collaborative engineering teams, fostering strong team dynamics and a culture of trust, ownership, and accountability.
  • Comfortable operating in fast-moving environments, able to adapt to evolving priorities and make effective decisions with incomplete information.
  • Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to clearly articulate technical concepts and build effective relationships across the business.
  • A genuine passion for coaching and developing engineers, supporting individuals at different stages of their careers to grow and succeed.
  • A pragmatic decision-maker, able to balance speed, quality, and technical production to deliver the best outcomes for both customers and the business.

About Veygo

Veygo offers pay-as-you-go car insurance, giving customers flexible cover by the hour, day, or week. We serve over one million customers and are backed by Admiral Group.

We take pride in being a diverse and inclusive business. It’s a place where you can be yourself and support one another.

Benefits include up to £3,600 of free shares each year after one year of service, 33 days holiday (including bank holidays) upon joining, increasing up to a maximum of 38 days, and the option to buy or sell up to an additional five days of annual leave. Veygo is recognized as a Great Place to Work for Women, for Wellbeing, and for over 25 years overall.

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Posted: May 26th, 2026