Engineering Manager

About the role:

We need Engineering Managers who are builders at heart. We want people who thrive on shipping high-impact work, think like product owners, and excel at clearing the path so their teams can execute at their full potential.

At HeliosX, Engineering Managers drive the execution engine. You will be deeply embedded in the work to shape how your teams build, challenge them to improve, and help them succeed. This is a leadership role first. Your impact comes primarily through your teams rather than your own code output.

You will manage around 8-12 engineers across multiple small teams. Some teams might be one or two people; others might be six. The shape varies, but the job is the same: make those teams succeed.

What you'll be doing:

• Drive execution. You set ambitious targets and hold teams accountable. You own the accuracy of commitments. When you assign feature leads to initiatives, you remain accountable for the performance throughout delivery. Delegation is not abdication. You must stay close enough to the technical details to understand challenges, unblock the team, and make the right calls on complexity.
• Build and grow your people. You line-manage every engineer on your teams. We expect you to hold a high bar for performance, give direct feedback, and proactively make changes when necessary. You also invest in high performers by stretching them with the right opportunities to support their development.
• Improve how your teams work. Be relentless about making your teams more effective over time. This includes refining processes, adopting better tools, and improving how your teams use AI in their day-to-day work. If you find friction, remove it.
• Shape what gets built. Your Product Manager counterparts own the "what and why," but you are their partner. You help refine ideas, identify opportunities to deliver value sooner, and provide early estimates. You assign the right technical leads and ensure work is broken down effectively. You also balance product delivery with platform investment to prevent excessive tech debt.
• Drive technical excellence. You own the technical roadmap and architectural integrity. You don’t need to dictate the plan, but you must ensure the team is making good decisions. Keep the quality bar high. Ensure our systems are built to scale.
• Prototype and explore. You use AI tools to rapidly explore, prototype ideas and test assumptions. While you are not on the critical path for implementation, you should be hands-on enough to validate approaches and push the team's thinking.
• Shape HeliosX Engineering. You will hire your future colleagues. You will also contribute to engineering-wide culture and work alongside peers to raise the bar across the organization

Who you are:

• Management experience. You have line-managed engineers before and handled the hard parts, such as performance management, difficult conversations, and navigating change. We care less about years of experience and more that you have done this for real.
• Strong technical background. You have held at least a Senior Engineer role. You can look at a system design, a technical proposal, or a gnarly production issue and form a credible view. We are flexible on specific tech stacks but a Java background and at least some experience with React/Typescript are a plus.
• Bias for action. You default to doing, not deliberating. You would rather ship something imperfect and iterate than wait for the perfect plan.
• People and growth focus. You believe high-performing teams start with people who feel supported, challenged, and trusted.
• AI-native mindset. You don't just use AI tools. You have changed how you and your teams work because of them. You have strong opinions on where AI genuinely accelerates delivery and where it is a distraction.
• Comfort with ambiguity. You can operate in a fast-moving environment where priorities shift and things aren't always neatly defined. You figure it out.

Why work with us?
At HeliosX, we want to improve healthcare for everyone, and to do this we need a team of brilliant people who share that ambition. We are currently a diverse team of engineers, scientists, clinical researchers, physicians, pharmacists, marketeers, and customer care specialists committed to our mission - but we need more talented folks to join us, if we want to achieve our global ambitions!

Aside from working with our all-star team, here are the other benefits of coming on board:

• Generous equity allocations with significant upside potential
• 25 Days Holiday (+ all the usual Bank Holidays)
• Private health insurance, along with extra dental and eye care cover
• Employee Pension with Smart Pensions
• Enhanced parental leave
• Cycle-to-work Scheme
• Electric Car Scheme
• Free Dermatica and MedExpress products every month, as well as family discounts
• Home office allowance
• Access to a Headspace subscription, discounted gym memberships, and a learning and development budget (alongside a free Kindle and audible subscription)

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