Engineering Manager, Welcome to the Jungle (formerly Otta)
£84-100k
2+ days a week in office
Matching candidates to relevant jobs at exciting companies. Formerly Otta.
Be an early applicant
Matching candidates to relevant jobs at exciting companies. Formerly Otta.
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
£84-100k
2+ days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help candidates and companies find their people.
Role
Who you are
- You have at least 5 years of coding experience (back-end / full stack)
- You have at least one significant prior experience managing a full-stack engineering squad (2-3 years)
- You demonstrate strong leadership to guide your team, backed by extensive technical expertise for coaching and a pragmatic mindset for identifying clear, effective solutions
- You’re comfortable: *Building, running and continuously iterating on squad rituals that fit your squad’s context and foster efficiency & velocity *Collaborating with cross-functional counterparts: PM, Product Designer *Supporting and coaching your IC direct reports, and giving them regular feedback to help them grow in alignment with wider company goals *Managing in both French and English, in a remote context
- You’re comfortable being eyes on in a full-stack context, through code and design document review or code contributions outside of the team’s critical path
- You’re product-minded: not content with executing on pre-defined tasks and roadmap, you’re directly in touch with business challenges and customer pains, and use this to inform your focuses, prioritization calls, and the direction you provide your team
What the job involves
- Technical & Architectural Leadership: Provide technical guidance, architectural oversight, and selective hands-on coding (20-30%); oversee code reviews, define technical direction, ensure clean code practices, manage technical debt, and guarantee project delivery with quality/velocity targets
- People Management & Development: Lead and grow 4-5 engineers through regular 1:1s, performance reviews, individualized development plans, recruitment, and retention; foster high-performance culture with psychological safety while delegating leadership opportunities to senior engineers
- Quality & Operations Excellence: Champion best practices (TDD, CI/CD, unit testing), oversee monitoring/observability for KPIs, manage support workflows, ensure proper documentation, and balance feature delivery with system health
- Product & Design Collaboration: Partner with PM & Designer on roadmap and strategic planning; analyze requirements, assess technical feasibility, identify risks early, and orchestrate solutions to blockers
- Stakeholder Communication: Translate business requirements into technical strategy; communicate progress, risks, and trade-offs to leadership; represent team in planning cycles and cross-functional meetings while maintaining transparency
- Engineering-Wide Leadership: Collaborate with Staff Engineers, other leads, and Engineering Director on cross-team technical strategy, architectural decisions, scalable processes, and organization-wide initiatives; champion engineering culture and values
Application process
- Phone Screen with Fattoum, our TAM
- Job Skills Assessment with our Staffs
- Value Interview with your Manager, Flo, Head of Engineering
- Value Interview with Louis, our VP Product
- Good luck !
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Looking for a job is a frustrating experience. It’s incredibly hard to find a good match. Job adverts lack useful information like salary and diversity data. Companies sometimes never respond. Welcome to the Jungle aims to make finding a job in tech less soul crushing.
In January 2024, Otta merged with Welcome to the Jungle. Our ambition is to become a global leader in the world of work, and help candidates and companies find each other through our job matching, recruiter solutions including employer brand, and media.
Welcome to the Jungle believes in a future of work based on the power of matching and is obsessed with helping people find exciting and meaningful work.
Caroline Fischer
UK Country Manager
Meet the team
6 people
Wendy Danso, Senior Operations Analyst
Our mission
Provide an exceptional experience for customers and candidates, across Customer Care, Jobs, Companies and ContentInsights
Company
Employee endorsements
Meaningful work
"Everyone is driven towards the same mission and feels a sense of purpose and alignment towards our goals. It's really fulfilling to work together to..."
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2023
$54m
SERIES C
Oct 2019
$22.3m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $86.9m
Company benefits
- 24 days of annual leave + bank holidays
- In addition, we have a winter break where the office closes from 25 December to 1 January, so everyone can recharge
- 4 day weeks after your first month, with Fridays off
- Universal parental leave - 13 weeks' full pay, 13 weeks' half pay, 13 weeks' statutory pay (if you have been with us for at least 6 months), 13 weeks' unpaid (optional)
- Health insurance with Vitality, including dental and optician cover
- Breakfast, snacks and drinks at the office every day
- Lunch at the office every second Wednesday
- Cycle-to-work scheme with GCI (no £1,000 limit)
Company values
- You're Welcome - Individually we are our true selves. As a team we are united by purpose. It means we prioritise team success over personal achievements while staying authentic. We create a welcoming, inclusive environment where we're ready to help others and demonstrate humility, building a culture of mutual trust and support.
- Place Your Bets - We believe in taking chances. We’ll always choose a bold decision with great potential rewards over playing it safe. This value is about decision making and the fight against inertia.
- What would it take to learn faster? - Speed of iteration typically beats quality of iteration. We move fast when it helps us learn faster - we feel safe taking risks, finding smart shortcuts, or shipping experiments
- What could exceptional look like? Our standards are high, and there are moments where it's worth pushing them further. We're comfortable asking hard questions to explore how to make something exceptional
Company HQ
Old St, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Jeremy Cledat
(CEO)Previously worked in venture capital firms, then created Welcome to the Jungle in 2015.
Caroline Fischer
(UK Country Manager)Grew her career in commercial, operational and leadership roles in big and small tech companies in London.
People progressing
Lauren joined in 2022 as a CSM. She demonstrated skill and passion, and set the standard for excellence. Over time she coached her peers. Today, she is Head of CS leading the team and strategy.
Josie joined as an Ops Analyst and was promoted for her diligent work. She wanted to broaden her scope and joined our Marketing team. She did so well, she has since been promoted to Marketing Manager!
People breakdown
11%
16%
9%
64%
Asian
Black or African American
Multiracial / Multiethnic
White
Last updated on 08 October 2024
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Welcome to the Jungle (formerly Otta)
Claudia Gallon (People Partner)
- Though we’re quite early in our journey, our employees are starting to roll out initiatives that help us to better understand and empathise with each other and the world around us. We collect meaningful data in our onboarding survey, conduct privilege awareness workshops as part of employee onboarding, and anonymise tasks during interview processes to eliminate bias. Diverse employees make for an inclusive product.
- We’re committed to a feedback-driven and transparent culture, as we work to make a workplace where everyone feels welcome and all voices are heard. An environment where conversations between socially different people are seen as opportunities to learn, anticipate alternative viewpoints, and generally grow our business.
- We’re continually iterating our product to do better. We collect meaningful diversity data from companies to inform candidates about gender split and we create transparency through sharing salary ranges. We’re thankful for the opportunity to listen to and learn from our candidates.
- Our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) are integral to fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace. Our Women’s Group, LGBTQIA+ Group, Disability Group, and Black Employee Network provide vital support and advocacy, creating spaces for connection, growth, and empowerment. Through these ERGs, we celebrate diversity and ensure every employee can bring their whole self to work.
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