Engineering Manager, Lottie
May 2025
£87.5-125k
Offers Equity
2+ days a week in office (London Bridge, London)
A family's trusted guide to later life care
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A family's trusted guide to later life care
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
£87.5-125k
Offers Equity
2+ days a week in office (London Bridge, London)
21-100 employees
Company mission
To elevate later life for everybody.
Role
Who you are
- You are a self starter. You thrive in a fast-paced environment and are comfortable working on challenges with many unknowns. You provide clarity and make things happen
- You have 7+ years of hands on experience in software engineering, including leading technical decisions and mentoring engineers and have worked across the stack
- You are both product minded and conscious of what great looks like from an engineering point of view. You focus relentlessly on impact and decreasing the cost of change
- You have embraced AI. You use cursor, windsurf or similar and try AI for all kind of productivity improvements while understanding the limitations of existing LLMs
- You have partnered with PMs and Designers before, ideally on web products
- You value diversity and inclusion and are passionate about creating a space where everyone’s voices are heard, respected, and celebrated
- You’re someone who brings joy and enjoys building meaningful work relationships
What the job involves
- Reporting to the CPTO
- We are seeking a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead a high-impact product engineering team focused on Lottie's marketplace (lottie.org)
- This is a critical role where you will play a key part in enhancing the experience for families navigating the later living sector, while helping our partners (care home and home care providers) maximise their reach
- Your team will drive significant marketplace improvements by boosting conversion rates and organic traffic, while also building exciting new capabilities from the ground up
- You and your team will refactor and simplify code for scalability and maintainability, enrich listings for a personalised user experience, and ultimately guide customers toward the best possible care for their loved ones
- A significant portion of your time will be spent coding alongside your team, leading by example on technical best practices. This is a genuinely hands-on role
- Driving the product decisions and roadmap alongside the Product Manager and Designer
- Managing a team of 3-4 engineers; helping them grow and deliver more impact
- Helping the team operate effectively by breaking problems down into simpler ones for fast delivery and impact
- Make key architectural decisions with other tech leaders
- Rebuild our search engine to provide more personalised results
- Build a chatbot to help users find the best care
- Provide a self-service platform so our Marketing team can build new landing pages autonomously
- Improve tracking of user flows to identify drop off
- Run many experiments to improve conversions
- Among many others!
Application process
- Screening interview led by Lottie’s Talent Acquisition Lead
- First round interview led by Hiring Manager
- Technical assessment interview with the Hiring Manager and one member of Lottie’s Senior Management Team
- Behavioural interview with Hiring Manager
- Final interview with Will Donnelly (Lottie’s Co-Founder & CEO)
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Choosing a care home is often a hugely daunting, complex, and expensive process, coming at a time that's already stressful enough. What's more, the UK's ageing population is growing at an increasing rate, putting more strain on social care than ever before. The result is that 44% of care seekers often ultimately regret their choice of care home, something that has had increasing attention since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lottie aims to address this in part by simplifying the process of finding the perfect care home for every individual's specific needs. Its online marketplace gives users all the tools to select and compare the UK's best-performing care homes, taking into account CQC reports, facilities, treatment methods, and location.
Having received investment, Lottie aims to continue its growth to reshape the future of the care industry. It is doing so with a strong emphasis on data and real-time information, collecting datasets that will be vital not just to its business operations, but potentially to the UK government and healthcare policy too.
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Autonomy
"Everyone is encouraged and empowered to use their own experiences and ideas to add value to the team in their respective departments. Lottie is very..."
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Oct 2023
$21m
SERIES A
Jul 2022
$8.1m
SEED
Total funding: $33.2m
Company benefits
- 26 days holiday + Bank holidays
- Flexible working hours
- Everyone owns equity
- Private Medical Insurance
- Cashplan
- Wellness budget
- L&D budget
- A 3-night stay at Unplugged
- 2-weeks Work from anywhere
- 20-weeks full pay for Primary Parental Leave
- 8-weeks full pay for Secondary Parental Leave
- 2-weeks unpaid Carers Leave
- 5-days paid leave for those going through the IVF process
- Workplace Nursery Scheme
- Compassionate Leave
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to Mental Health First Aiders
- Quarterly team events
Company values
- Ownership
- Impact
- Nimbleness
- Kindness
Company HQ
Bermondsey, London, UK
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Leadership
Will Donnelly
(Co-Founder & CEO)Prior to Lottie, Will spent 5-years at CBRE, where they advised on £2.5bn of healthcare transactions, supported the NHS during COVID-19, and established themself as a leading global later living expert.
Chris Donnelly
(Co-Founder)Before Lottie, Chris founded and successfully grew Verb into one of the world's most recognised luxury digital agencies with a global client base including Bugatti, Jimmy Choo & Net A Porter.
People progressing
Hannah joined Lottie as the company's first Care Expert (Customer Care) following spells in the charity and tech sectors. Since joining, Hannah has been promoted a number of times and is now the Customer Care Lead.
Ruby started as a 4-week Care Expert Intern during University, which was extended. After 1.5 years in the Care Expert team, Ruby moved over to the Marketing team to pursue her career in Social Media!
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Lottie
Holly Leckenby Rye (Senior People Manager)
- Fostering an inclusive atmosphere where everyone feels valued and respected
- A wide range of inclusive benefits and policies
- Religious and cultural practices and holidays celebrated
- Job descriptions with inclusive language
- Quarterly anonymous employee engagement surveys
- Bias-free Performance Reviews with quantitive measures in place
- Employee Assistance Programmes
- A diverse social calendar to be inclusive of all employees
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