About the Role

Job Title: Engineering Manager
Location: London
Employment Type: Full-time
Department: Engineering

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of approximately 8 engineers across 2 squads, building our core product.
• Collaborate with the cofounders, product managers, and senior engineers to define the product roadmap and ensure it aligns with the company's mission and goals.
• Drive speedy delivery of high-quality features and guide your team towards engineering best practices, including in code reviews, testing, and writing useful documentation.
• Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and ownership within the engineering team.
• Recruit, interview, hire, and onboard world-class engineers.
• Mentor and coach individual engineers to help them grow and develop their skills.

About You

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 2 years of experience managing a team of engineers.
• Strong technical background in computer science or a related field.
• Experience building and scaling complex software systems.
• Experience leading a fast-moving, high-performing engineering team.
• Proven ability to recruit and develop technically excellent engineers.
• Passion for building products that are loved by their users.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience with machine learning, particularly in computer vision, robotics, and embodied AI is a plus.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary, commission, and equity in a hyper-growth business.
• Strong in-person culture: most of our team is in the office 3+ days a week.
• Room to grow into anything you choose to — a year ago we were 25 people, now we're at 75. We'll be growing very quickly over the next 24 months, and there will be a wide scope for you to grow into roles with greater responsibility.
• 25 days annual leave a year plus public holidays.

Our work is at the intersection of cutting-edge AI use cases and the engineering challenges that come with handling massive scale. Encord offers a rare opportunity to be part of a startup with a clear mission and vision, and with exceptional product-market fit. You will get to explore and build enterprise AI use cases across many different industry verticals such as healthcare, robotics, agentic generative AI, and many more.