Technical Engineering Manager
Carwow · Remote · United Kingdom - Remote ·
COMPENSATION
€•• – ••k
Listed on the employer's job board (Ashby)
- Fully remote
- People + Technical Lead
- Product-led organisation
- Hands-on coding
- UK-based company
This role combines people management with direct technical involvement for one of Europe's largest online car-changing destinations. You will partner equally with a Product Manager to balance delivery, quality, and technical health while overseeing hiring, budgeting, and operational metrics.
What you'll do
- Co-own the product roadmap with the Product Manager as an equal partner
- Own delivery health including predictability, throughput, and shipping quality
- Maintain technical accountability for architecture, code quality, and SLOs
- Read code, review pull requests, and pair-program regularly with engineers
- Manage, coach, and develop team members while owning the hiring process
- Set and track team-level goals in partnership with direct reports
- Manage team budget, software spend, and headcount planning
- Drive adoption of AI tooling and practices within the team
What you'll need
- Previous experience managing engineers in a product-led organisation
- Track record of owning delivery outcomes beyond just team happiness
- Ability to handle both people management and technical threads simultaneously
- Experience or strong enthusiasm for hiring and budget ownership
- Familiarity with operational metrics such as Service Level Objectives (SLOs)
- Ability to read and understand code across the team's primary stack
- Skill in pair-programming effectively on real work tasks
- Capacity to provide meaningful, technically credible PR feedback
How you'll work
- Fully remote working arrangement
- Option to work from abroad for one month
- Reports to Head of Engineering or Director of Engineering
- Leads one specific engineering team
What you get
- Competitive salary and share options
- Matched pension contributions
- Vitality Private Healthcare and eyecare vouchers
- Life Assurance coverage
- Monthly mental wellbeing coaching sessions
- 28 days annual leave increasing to 30 or 35 days over time
- Additional leave for wedding or moving house
- Option to buy three extra days of holiday per year
- Inclusive parental and fertility treatment policies
- Bubble childcare support and discounted nanny fees
- Latest tech hardware such as Macbook or Surface
- Up to €550 home office allowance
- Generous learning and development budget