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About the Role
As Engineering Manager, you'll lead engineers within easyJet's Missions, which are groups of squads aligned to business areas responsible for building and running the airline's technology. You will be accountable for the health, capability, and effectiveness of engineering teams within the Mission, partnering with Product teams and Mission Leads to deliver sustainable outcomes, improve engineering practices, and foster an environment for growth. You will own the engineering side of the Mission and provide leadership to Engineering Leads and Senior Engineers across multiple squads.
Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and develop Engineering Leads and Senior Engineers across multiple squads, supporting career development, performance, and leadership capability.
- Create healthy, sustainable teams by establishing effective ways of working, supporting engagement and retention, and helping leaders address challenges.
- Remove obstacles, protect team focus, and identify delivery risks while partnering with Product teams and Mission leadership to support successful outcomes.
- Raise engineering standards, improve technical practices, and ensure teams maintain a high bar for quality across software delivery.
- Attract and hire talented engineers, build succession plans, and develop future engineering leaders.
- Maintain technical credibility across modern software delivery, cloud technologies, and engineering operations.
Requirements
- Experience leading engineers across multiple teams in a modern software engineering environment, ideally with responsibility for Engineering Leads, senior engineers, or other people leaders.
- Strong track record of developing people, creating healthy team cultures, and supporting engineers through growth, change, and delivery challenges.
- Comfortable partnering with product and business stakeholders, influencing decisions, and building trusted relationships across multiple teams.
- Strong people leadership and coaching experience.
- Experience supporting agile software delivery across multiple teams.
- Technical credibility across cloud services, CI/CD, and modern engineering practices.
- Experience recruiting, developing, and retaining engineering talent.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience within high-availability, regulated, or large-scale environments such as travel, retail, or payments is beneficial.
- Familiarity with AWS, Kubernetes, and Mission-and-Squad style operating models is beneficial.
Skills
- People leadership
- Coaching
- Agile software delivery
- Cloud services
- CI/CD
- Modern engineering practices
- Recruiting
- Talent development
- Talent retention
- Communication
- Stakeholder management
- AWS
- Kubernetes
Location
- Luton
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Experienced engineering leader
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive base salary + up to 20% bonus
Benefits
- 20%25 bonus
- 7%25 pension
- Staff travel benefits
- Private medical insurance
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays
- Annual credit towards an easyJet holiday
- Excellent staff travel benefits
- Flexible benefits package including share schemes
About the Company
- easyJet is an airline company.
- Engineering at easyJet is organised around Missions and Squads, bringing technology teams closer to the parts of the business they support.
Equal Opportunity
- Diversity isn't a checkbox — it's how we fly. Different perspectives help us make better decisions for customers, especially when the operation is under pressure. We welcome leaders from every background who can build trust, value diverse thinking and help people contribute at their best.
- At easyJet, we are dedicated to fostering an inclusive workplace that reflects the diverse customers we serve across Europe. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds.
- If you require specific adjustments or support during the application or recruitment process, such as extra time for assessments or accessible interview locations, please contact us at ma.recruitment@easyjet.com. We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to ensure accessibility and accommodation.