Engineering Manager at Omaze

Who We Are: At Omaze, we give our community in the UK and Germany the chance to win luxury homes and other life-changing prizes — all while raising money for the causes they love. Thanks to our Omaze Community, we’ve raised over £100 million for UK charities in just five years. That’s millions helping organisations like Age UK, the RSPCA, British Heart Foundation and Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity deliver life-saving work. And the best part? We’re only just getting started. Omaze is building a business and culture committed to growth and creating significant social impact on a global scale. 🔑 ABOUT THE JOB We're looking for an Engineering Manager who is passionate about building high-performing, empowered teams. You'll lead a group of talented engineers, guide them through technical challenges, and work collaboratively with Product and Design to deliver customer-focused solutions at scale for a global business. You’ll also drive Engineering resource planning, budget management, engineer growth development and the definition and delivery of SLAs for internally developed systems and services. This role requires a unique blend of technical acumen, people leadership, and strategic thinking. You’ll play a key role in shaping our Engineering culture, scaling our systems, and developing the people around you. 🔧 WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING - Lead, mentor, and support a multidisciplinary engineering team, including software engineers, QA and mobile engineers - with a focus on quality, performance, timely delivery and collaboration - Drive the delivery of high-impact features from planning through to production - Deliver scalable solutions for a global customer base - Hold relationships with other teams, ensuring alignment, effective collaboration and consistent output - Plan and manage team capacity, headcount, and budget to support business goals - Define, track, and meet SLAs for internally developed systems and services - Foster a collaborative, inclusive, and growth-oriented environment - Partner with Product, Design, and other relevant stakeholders to shape the roadmap - Develop our Engineering processes and practices as we scale, including setting code quality standards and ensuring adherence to engineering excellence - Contribute to hiring, onboarding, and ongoing career development of engineers - Balance strategic technical guidance with people leadership - you won’t be hands-on every day, but you’ll stay close to the technology 🤩 ABOUT YOU Organisational & People Leadership - Proven experience leading high-performing engineering teams, ideally across multiple disciplines in a fast-paced environment - Experience with engineering resource planning, budgeting, and aligning team structure with business outcomes - Skilled at giving actionable feedback, coaching, and unblocking teams - Able to push through ambiguity and bring structure when needed - Effective communicator - both upward and across functions - with the ability to simplify complex ideas and build trust - Engage engineers to support a culture of collaboration and inclusion through mentorship, respectful code review, and dedication to quality - You are passionate about voicing your opinions and can be humble in receiving feedback - Bonus: Experience in a scale-up environment, or having led teams through growth phases. - Bonus: Experience of managing and partnering with outsourced or offshore software development teams Technical Skills & Experience - Proven experience of hands on professional software engineering and recent experience of software engineering management - A strong technical foundation - you can understand architecture decisions and unblock teams without being hands-on daily - Experience delivering scalable, reliable systems for global user bases - Comfortable operating in environments subject to regulatory, compliance, and risk-based security requirements - Experience designing and building products or major features from concept to launch. - Experience with (or similar) our client side tech stack: TypeScript / JavaScript, React, Shopify and Vue.js - Experience with (or similar) our server-side tech stack: Typescript, DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, API Gateway, and Serverless Framework. 🙌 WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU - Generous stock options scheme - 25 days annual leave PLUS Bank Holidays - Private medical and dental insurance - 9% employer pension contributions, when you contribute at least 2% - A generous personal learning and development budget each year to use on training courses, conferences and professional memberships - Personal equipment budget to work from home - Enhanced family leave policies - Life assurance of 4x your salary DEI Statement We actively seek out diversity of thought and experience to drive innovation. We welcome all backgrounds, identities, and perspectives and work hard to ensure that every Omaze employee can bring their authentic self to work at all times.