Engineering Manager

At Longshot Systems we build advanced platforms for sports betting analytics and trading. We're looking for an Engineering Manager to own the people and process side of our engineering organisation of roughly 30–50 people.

This is a team lead role, not a tech lead role. Architecture, technical direction and code-level decisions sit with our CTO and tech leads. You'd be accountable for the engineers themselves (how they're hired, managed, developed and progressed) and for the processes that keep our teams working well together. The aim is to free our technical leaders to stay close to the technical work, and to make the whole organisation faster and more effective.

Every engineer at Longshot has two people looking after them: a tech lead who owns what they build and how it's built, and you, who own how they're managed, developed and assessed. Day to day that's a collaborative partnership: you spot an issue, work it through with the relevant tech lead and agree an approach together. On technical questions the tech lead's judgement prevails. On how engineers are managed, and on processes that need to be consistent across teams (review cycles, progression, hiring standards, starters and leavers), the decision is yours. You'd also run a regular forum with the CTO and tech leads covering the hiring pipeline, attrition risk, the balance between maintenance and development work, and where standards are drifting.

You'll have been an engineer yourself, with enough