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About the Role

As an Engineering Manager, you will combine technical expertise with strong leadership to guide a team of product engineers in delivering impactful outcomes for DISCO and our customers. You will contribute directly to technical design, implementation, and optimisation within your team’s scope and across the engineering org, while also supporting engineers to grow their skills and careers. You know when to be hands-on in solving technical challenges and when to focus on strategy and people management. You will work in close collaboration with your product and design peers to prioritise and deliver work that balances feature delivery with quality, performance and reliability, ensuring technical feasibility and customer value. You will also collaborate with technical leaders to drive engineering and architecture excellence, and work with our data and market facing teams in the UK to support our biggest enterprise customers. As a leader, you will foster a high performance culture of ownership, technical excellence, and collaboration, while supporting team autonomy and aligning with broader engineering standards.

Responsibilities

Define and track OKRs in collaboration with Product and Design, ensuring alignment with strategic goals.
Balance feature development with addressing technical debt and improving system health in a well structured Agile process.
Guide thoughtful adoption of AI tooling to efficiently deliver secure, high quality engineering work at scale.
Guide technical discovery, review designs and architecture decisions, and contribute to development when necessary to support the team’s success.
Mentor and grow engineers of varying seniority through regular 1:1s, career development plans, and structured feedback.
Foster a culture of engagement, ownership, and technical excellence.
Work closely with Product and Design to ensure technical feasibility, maintain high-quality standards, and deliver impactful solutions.
Help define and implement engineering standards across teams, ensuring consistency in quality, performance, and reliability.
Monitor and maintain engineering health metrics (SLOs, error rates, cycle time, operational costs) to drive improvements in processes, system performance and reliability.
Oversee incident response, and post-mortems, ensuring effective resolution and long-term fixes for recurring issues.
Drive enhancements in development workflows, testing practices, CI/CD pipelines, and overall engineering efficiency.
Proven experience leading a team of engineers in a high-growth or complex product environment, with a focus on mentorship, team development, and fostering a strong engineering culture.
Understand our customers deeply, engage in product strategy and focus on building great solutions that support our biggest customers.
Deep understanding of designing, building, and maintaining scalable web applications, APIs, and distributed systems, ideally in a SaaS or cloud-based environment.
Strong knowledge of modern backend and frontend technologies, system performance optimisation, and architectural best practices for high-traffic applications.
Ability to make strategic trade-offs between feature development, technical debt, and operational improvements, and to articulate a clear, data driven business case for decisions you make.
Experience working closely with Product, Design, and other engineering teams to align on goals, manage dependencies, and deliver high-quality solutions.
Familiarity with monitoring, incident response, and maintaining service reliability at scale, including working with SLOs, observability platforms, and optimising for cost efficiency.
Knowledge of modern software development workflows, including CI/CD, testing strategies, and iterative improvement of engineering processes.
Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly and effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Requirements

Experience with React, Typescript, Python, and Postgres, or similar.
Experience working in a high-scale SaaS or cloud-based environment.
Hands-on experience with modern DevOps practices, including CI/CD and cloud infrastructure.
Familiarity with observability tools, monitoring, and error tracking.
Passion for building a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Skills

Technical expertise
Leadership
Technical design
Implementation
Optimization
Strategy
People management
Agile process
AI tooling
Technical discovery
Design review
Architecture review
Mentorship
Career development
Cross-functional collaboration
Product strategy
System design
Backend technologies
Frontend technologies
System performance optimisation
Architectural best practices
Business priorities balancing
Data-driven decision making
Dependency management
Incident response
Service reliability
Observability platforms
Cost efficiency
CI/CD
Testing strategies
Communication
Influence

Location

Remote
London

Work Type

Remote

Experience Level

Engineering Leadership Experience

Benefits

Five weeks of paid vacation leave per year
Paid bank/public holidays as outlined in our Leave Policy
Two weeks of paid sick leave per year
Paid Parental Leave
A company laptop
Monthly internet allowance/reimbursement
Office set-up allowance
Annual learning and development allowance
The opportunity to join a genuinely friendly and fun team

About the Company

DISCO is the industry standard for managing, organising and sharing music and other media.
We make music and media workflow fast, intuitive and simple, directly connecting people and their work to save time.
Today we count UMG, Sony, Warner Music, Netflix, Amazon among our customers, and over 250,000 people interact with DISCO each month.
Our customers are super passionate about our product.

Equal Opportunity

At DISCO, we strongly believe in the uniqueness of thought, experience and perspective that can only be achieved through having an inclusive and diverse workforce.
We strive to continue making DISCO an incredible place to work by fostering a culture of inclusiveness, diversity, openness, and collaboration.
We value all different kinds of experience, so even if you feel you don't meet all of the necessary criteria for this position, we encourage you to apply.