Engineering Manager

Who We Are

At Omaze, we give our community in the UK and Germany the chance to win luxury homes and other life-changing prizes — all while raising money for the causes they love.

Thanks to our Omaze Community, we’ve raised over £100 million for UK charities in just five years. That’s millions helping organisations like Age UK, the RSPCA, British Heart Foundation and Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity deliver life-saving work.

And the best part? We’re only just getting started. Omaze is building a business and culture committed to growth and creating significant social impact on a global scale.

🔑 About The Job

We're looking for an Engineering Manager who is passionate about building high-performing, empowered teams. You'll lead a group of talented engineers, guide them through technical challenges, and work collaboratively with Product and Design to deliver customer-focused solutions at scale for a global business.

You’ll also drive Engineering resource planning, budget management, engineer growth development and the definition and delivery of SLAs for internally developed systems and services.

This role requires a unique blend of technical acumen, people leadership, and strategic thinking. You’ll play a key role in shaping our Engineering culture, scaling our systems, and developing the people around you.

🔧 What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead, mentor, and support a multidisciplinary engineering team, including software engineers, QA and mobile engineers - with a focus on quality, performance, timely delivery and collaboration

Drive the delivery of high-impact features from planning through to production

Deliver scalable solutions for a global customer base

Hold relationships with other teams, ensuring alignment, effective collaboration and consistent output

Plan and manage team capacity, headcount, and budget to support business goals

Define, track, and meet SLAs for internally developed systems and services

Foster a collaborative, inclusive, and growth-oriented environment

Partner with Product, Design, and other relevant stakeholders to shape the roadmap

Develop our Engineering processes and practices as we scale, including setting code quality standards and ensuring adherence to engineering excellence

Contribute to hiring, onboarding, and ongoing career development of engineers

Balance strategic technical guidance with people leadership - you won’t be hands-on every day, but you’ll stay close to the technology

🤩 About You

Organisational & People Leadership

• Proven experience leading high-performing engineering teams, ideally across multiple disciplines in a fast-paced environment

Comfortable operating in environments subject to regulatory, compliance, and risk-based security requirements

Experience designing and building products or major features from concept to launch.

Experience with (or similar) our client side tech stack: TypeScript / JavaScript, React, Shopify and Vue.js

Experience with (or similar) our server-side tech stack: Typescript, DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, API Gateway, and Serverless Framework.

🙌 What’s In It For You

• Generous stock options scheme
• 25 days annual leave PLUS Bank Holidays
• Private medical and dental insurance
• 9% employer pension contributions, when you contribute at least 2%
• A generous personal learning and development budget each year to use on training courses, conferences and professional memberships
• Personal equipment budget to work from home
• Enhanced family leave policies
• Life assurance of 4x your salary
  
  

DEI Statement

We actively seek out diversity of thought and experience to drive innovation. We welcome all backgrounds, identities, and perspectives and work hard to ensure that every Omaze employee can bring their authentic self to work at all times.