Senior Engineering Manager

The Role

Board Intelligence is growing fast, and our engineering team is at the centre of that growth. We are building AI-powered products for some of the most demanding clients in the world, and we need exceptional leaders to help us do it.

We are looking for an experienced engineering leader to join our engineering leadership team. At Board Intelligence, engineering leaders are also hands-on builders: you will lead and grow a team while staying technical and contributing to our products.

This role needs real seniority. We are looking for someone who coaches and mentors naturally, sets high standards and brings people with them. You will combine broad technical knowledge with deep expertise in at least one area.

Whilst we aren't fully remote, we are flexible on office presence and can consider hybrid approaches of 2-4 days per month onsite in London. 

Main Responsibilities

Be part of our engineering leadership team, driving continuous improvements to our software delivery culture and strategy.
Stay hands-on, writing code and building products within one of our pods.
Coach and mentor engineers, helping them grow and contributing to clearer career paths across engineering.
Shape technical architecture and key decisions with the CTO and other engineering leaders
Hire and develop strong engineers as the team grows
Champion AI-assisted engineering that is built on solid fundamentals
Work closely with product and the wider business to deliver what our clients need

Person Specification

We are looking for an outstanding engineering leader: technically strong across a broad range, with deep expertise in at least one area, and someone engineers want to work for.

Required Skills and Experience

Extensive software engineering experience, including a proven track record of leading engineering teams.

Hands-on technical ability, with recent experience writing production code

A track record of coaching, mentoring and growing engineers

Broad technical knowledge across the stack, with deep expertise in at least one area

Strong system design and architecture skills

Clear, confident communication and the ability to influence at all levels

Experience using AI coding tools, and a view on how they change the way teams work

Fluent written and spoken English

Nice to haves

Experience in a high-growth B2B SaaS company

Experience building for enterprise clients, ideally in regulated industries

Experience designing career frameworks or engineering levels

Experience leading remote or distributed teams

What good looks like in this role

After three months: you know your team, our products and our clients, you have built trust, and you are contributing code

After six months: your team is delivering consistently to a higher standard, and you are helping to hire and grow engineers

After twelve months: you are a trusted leader across engineering, your team is strong and growing, and you are shaping the direction of engineering at Board Intelligence

How We Work

We hire people who are expert at what they do. Once you join, you have the autonomy to shape how you work and the space to do it well. That doesn’t mean working in isolation. You’ll have colleagues who know their craft, regular collaboration across functions, and easy access to senior leadership when you need it.

We keep our structure flat. We work at pace in an agile, nimble environment where good ideas don’t wait for permission. If you spot something that could work better, we encourage you to say so. If you want to run with an idea, we’ll back you to do it.

We work with people who take pride in their output, back their team through the hard parts, and leave things better than they found them.

Benefits

Our package reflects what matters to people who do serious work:

• Competitive salary
• Pension scheme
• Personal performance bonus
• 26 days’ holiday each calendar year
• Bupa health and dental cover
• Group life assurance
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Referral bonus
• Claude licence: AI tools integrated into your daily work to multiply your impact
• Annual all-company Summer Away Day
• Regular team socials

What Happens Next

Once you apply, our Talent team will review your application. If there’s a fit, they’ll be in touch to discuss the role and next steps.

How We Use AI in Our Hiring

We use AI responsibly, both in the software we build for governance teams and in how we hire. Our Talent team may use AI to support application review, CV analysis, or identifying areas that need further verification.

But hiring decisions are made by people. AI surfaces signals; people make the call on whether to progress a candidate or extend an offer.

If you’d like details on how your data is handled during recruitment, contact our Talent team.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

We’re an equal opportunities employer. We’re building a team that works because it reflects a breadth of experience, background, and perspective.

Apply even if you don’t tick every box on the job specification. If the role excites you and you think you could make an impact, we want to hear from you.

We don’t discriminate on the basis of age, disability, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic. If you need reasonable adjustments at any stage of recruitment, or if there’s anything else we can do to make the process more accessible, tell our Talent team. We’ll sort it.

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