Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager

London - Hybrid / Full Time - Permanent

About Zuno

When you join Zuno, you join more than a trailblazing installation company. You become part of a rapidly growing team of experts. A proud partner with E.on, EDF Energy, Worcester Bosch, B&Q, Tesla, and Rangers/Watford Football Clubs – among others. Backed by Brookfield and a part of the HomeServe group, a team that works together to empower our customers' homes and lives.

Zuno offers…

• A great team culture – You will work across departments to make incredible things happen. Then, celebrate regularly with team socials and annual parties.
• A market-leading tech platform – Our team of developers is constantly improving our award-winning platform to support customers and engineers.
• Employee progression – We're passionate about our products and enjoy helping others. We also encourage extra training to support career progression.
• Customer champions – Our unique online journey empowers our customers. And through our award-winning app, we provide ongoing five-star support throughout the lifetime of our products.
• Award-winning products – We work with leading manufacturers to install high-quality products, with many being Which? and Quiet Mark approved.
• Global investors – We're proud to be backed by Brookfield and part of the HomeServe Group

The role

We are seeking an experienced and inspiring Engineering Manager to lead and empower our talented development teams. In this critical role, you'll be at the intersection of technical excellence, team growth, and product delivery. You'll use your technical expertise to guide architectural decisions and foster a culture of innovation, while primarily focusing on the personal and professional development of our engineers.

You will partner closely with Product Managers and the wider Engineering leadership team to drive our ambitious roadmap, ensuring we build scalable, high-quality solutions that directly impact users. Diversity of abilities and perspectives can help our product teams excel. If you feel you meet most of the points below, then we encourage you to apply.

Key responsibilities

• Contributing to both the technical and product vision of your teams
• Working closely with the teams’ Product Managers to share ownership of the delivery by unblocking the team and balancing quality with delivery
• Using your technical experience to lead solution architecture and technical discussions, creating alignment across the platform and bringing the big picture context to your teams
• Collaborating with the engineering management team to evolve our ways of working and our platform, designing team processes to create a great engineering culture
• Heavily involved in expanding the team and onboarding
• Looking after 1-2 teams of engineers, up to 8 direct reports
• Guiding the personal and professional development of individual engineers, through regular 1 to 1s and continuous feedback

Skills

• Prior experience of managing engineers and being in a leadership position
• Experienced at explaining technical topics to non-technical business stakeholders
• Previously worked as a lead software engineer or architect
• Experienced in systems design
• Passionate about technical excellence, automated testing, frequent deployments and agile processes
• Commercial experience in any Object-Oriented language and JavaScript

Beneficial skills/interests but not essential

• Experience with React/Next.js
• Experience with Ruby
• Experience with TypeScript
• Knowledge of AWS and Heroku

Benefits:

• 30 days annual leave + bank holidays
• Private medical cover with Aviva*
• 4 x salary Death in Service cover with Zurich*
• Paid 6 months maternity pay after a year of service
• Paid paternity pay after a year of service
• Salary sacrifice pension matched up to 6%
• Ongoing training & development opportunities
• Social events

*After probationary period