Senior Engineering Manager, Moonpig
9-10 Month FTC
Salary not provided
+ Bonuses
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Senior and Expert level
London
Manchester
1-2 days a week in office
Online company for personalised cards, gifts and flowers
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Online company for personalised cards, gifts and flowers
501-1000 employees
B2CRetailFlowerseCommerce
Be an early applicant
Salary not provided
+ Bonuses
React
AWS
TypeScript
GraphQL
.NET
Node.js
Terraform
Grafana
Senior and Expert level
London
Manchester
1-2 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
B2CRetailFlowerseCommerce
Company mission
To help people connect and create moments that matter.
Role
Who you are
- Experience leading software engineering teams as an Engineering Manager, Senior Engineering Manager or in a comparable people-leadership role
- Strong people leadership experience, including coaching, career development, feedback and performance management
- Engineering expertise with enough technical depth to contribute credibly to full-stack and cloud system design, architecture, engineering quality and operational conversations
- A collaborative leadership style that enables engineers and Engineering Leads to own decisions rather than relying on the manager for every answer
- Experience building strong Product and Engineering partnerships and involving engineers in discovery, problem shaping and roadmap decisions
- Experience sharing accountability for customer or business outcomes and translating these into clear engineering priorities
- Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices, including automated testing and TDD principles, CI/CD, observability and production ownership
- Experience facilitating technical decisions, bringing the right people and evidence together and constructively challenging thinking when needed
- Comfortable balancing feature delivery and experimentation with reliability, technical quality and sustainable engineering investment
- Ability to collaborate and influence across disciplines while communicating technical decisions, risks and trade-offs clearly
- Commitment to creating an inclusive environment where engineers can grow, challenge ideas, give and receive feedback and take meaningful ownership
- Available to start in November 2026 for the fixed-term maternity cover period
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to join Moonpig on a fixed-term maternity cover contract of around 9–10 months, with availability to start in November 2026
- You’ll provide people and technical leadership across teams within our Top of Funnel area, helping millions of customers navigate, discover and explore Moonpig’s product catalogue. It’s a role for someone who enjoys building strong engineering teams while staying connected to the technology, product direction and decisions that shape what we build
- People leadership will be a big part of your role. You’ll coach and support engineers, foster an inclusive and collaborative environment, and help people grow their skills, confidence and ownership
- Alongside this, you’ll partner closely with Product, Design and Engineering Leads to shape roadmaps, explore opportunities and make thoughtful decisions about our technical direction
- You’ll stay close enough to the technology to contribute meaningfully to conversations around architecture, engineering quality and delivery, while empowering engineers to make decisions at the right level
- Building culture: “Culture eats process for breakfast” and we wholeheartedly believe this. As an Engineering Manager you are responsible for fostering a growth culture and contributing to our management best practices
- You help us become an exceptional place to work for the ambitious, highly motivated people we hire. Your team of engineers are responsible for various services and you advocate the mantra “You build it, you run it”. At the end of the day, you have a massive influence on our overall engineering quality and culture and you actively work to continuously improve this
- People progression: As an Engineering Manager you are also expected to focus on the progression of people. Fifty percent of your time will be focussed on coaching, 121’s, mentoring and driving a high performance engineering culture
- You need to be empathetic towards an individual’s needs and ensure we support and grow our engineers. You’ll identify which skill sets are required for the successful delivery of projects, coaching or recruiting engineers to cover any skill shortages
- Driving good Engineering: As an Engineering Manager you’ll lead by example, demonstrating best practices, working with your engineers through regular pairing sessions or providing technical leadership to help deliver new features, ensuring that the design and development of our systems adhere to good engineering principles
- Lead and support engineers through regular 1:1s, coaching, timely feedback, career development and performance conversations
- Foster an inclusive, collaborative and learning-focused engineering culture where people feel comfortable sharing ideas, challenging decisions and learning from each other
- Partner with Product and Design to shape roadmaps and product direction, bringing an engineering perspective to discovery, prioritisation and trade-offs
- Help engineers get involved early in discovery and problem shaping rather than Engineering operating solely as a downstream delivery function
- Stay close to system design, architecture and technical direction, helping teams make high-quality decisions without becoming the default decision-maker
- Encourage pragmatic technical choices that favour simplicity and make effective use of existing software and shared capabilities
- Support Engineering Leads and teams with planning, estimation, sequencing, dependencies, risks and transparent communication around delivery
- Balance customer and business outcomes with appropriate investment in reliability, maintainability and longer-term engineering quality
- Champion strong engineering practices, including test-driven development and automated testing, helping teams build quality into the development process
- Support strong operational ownership through CI/CD, observability, production support and the principle that teams own the systems they build and run
- Help teams identify and address technical debt sustainably while maintaining appropriate technical and operational documentation
- Build technical leadership throughout the teams, using the experience and strengths of engineers at different levels rather than concentrating technical authority in one role
- Collaborate across Product, Design, Data/Data Science, CRM, Commercial and specialist functions where relevant, creating clarity around priorities, risks, dependencies and trade-offs
- Support team capability planning, identifying opportunities to develop skills and strengthen engineering capability
Application process
- Stage 1: Recruiter Screening Call 15-30mins
- Stage 2: Hiring Manager Call 30mins
- Stage 3: System design interview 60mins
- Stage 4: Culture/team fit interview with Key Stakeholder 30mins
- Stage 5: Final culture/team fit interview with Senior team/Hiring Manager 30mins
- Offer!
Our take
When Moonpig was founded in 2000, it bought into the idea that a personalised gift is always more meaningful, whether sent from the sofa, the commute, or the gym. Customers quickly bought into this vision, and Moonpig saw rapid growth culminating in its 2011 acquisition by Photobox for £120M.
Since then, Moonpig has seen continued success. Through expansion into new products such as flowers (Moonpig is now a top-3 online flower seller) and the development of its own app, Moonpig has established its place within the market for personalised gifts.
And it doesn't plan on slowing down anytime soon, as it looks to expand even further. Recent innovations have included the introduction of giant cards, and the company has also secured the ability to create exclusively branded ranges alongside Disney and Warner Bros. This commitment to innovation positions Moonpig to capture even more market share and strengthen its leadership in the industry.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Led by a woman
Company
Company benefits
- Annual reviews
- Attractive annual bonus scheme - with increased earning potential based on business and individual performance
- Pension scheme where we match up to 5%
- Referral scheme with cash bonus available
- Interest-free travel loan
- Sharesave Plan - Save as you earn
- Generous staff Moonpig, Red Letter Days and Buyagift products
- Private medical insurance
- Private dental plan
- Life assurance paying 4x your salary
- Eye care vouchers
- Cycle to work scheme
- Free access to 24h mental health and wellbeing resource as well as one to one therapy sessions via Spill
- Dog-friendly offices
- Access to a broad range of training workshops and courses
- Technical and professional qualifications policy, allowing individuals to apply for a more formal professional qualification, using allocated individual allowance
- Career Conversations with your manager to create your Career Development Plan
- 25 days’ holiday plus 1 day per year of service (up to 30 days)
- Growing Your Family - 8 weeks paid supporting caregiver leave and 24 weeks full pay primary caregiver leave (based on qualifying criteria)
- Flexible working opportunities based on our Ways of Working - inclusive of Hybrid and Remote
- Summer Hours - We finish at 4pm on Friday's during the months of June, July and August
- Volunteering - 1 day - the equivalent of 8 hrs of time to give back - through a chosen charity or our MP Group Foundation
- Matched Funding Scheme - This scheme provides colleagues with a fundraising allowance to support causes close to their hearts
Company HQ
Farringdon, London, UK
Leadership
Catherine Faiers
(CEO)Previously Non-Exec Director at Allegro and COO of Auto Trader and Addison Lee. Was also Corporate Development Director at Trainline and a Director at DC Advisory.
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