Engineering Manager, Skin + Me
Salary not provided
+ Equity
React
AWS
TypeScript
Python
MySQL
Flask
Senior and Expert level
London
More information about location
3+ days a week in office (Paddington, London)
Personalised Skincare
Posted today
Personalised Skincare
101-200 employees
HealthcareRetailPersonal healthSubscriptionConsumer GoodsD2CBeautyWellbeingeCommerceMedTech
Posted today
Salary not provided
+ Equity
React
AWS
TypeScript
Python
MySQL
Flask
Senior and Expert level
London
More information about location
3+ days a week in office (Paddington, London)
101-200 employees
HealthcareRetailPersonal healthSubscriptionConsumer GoodsD2CBeautyWellbeingeCommerceMedTech
Company mission
To change the face of skincare.
Role
Who you are
- Proven experience managing or leading software engineers
- Strong technical foundation, (e.g. full-stack, backend, or platform background)
- Experience overseeing end-to-end delivery, including infrastructure and operations
- Solid understanding of cloud environments (e.g. AWS) and CI/CD tooling
- Skilled in modern development practices, automated testing, observability, and security
- Excellent communicator and coach who builds trust and drives alignment
- Able to make sound architectural decisions under ambiguity
- A pragmatic leader who empowers others and delivers results
Desirable
- Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot, Claude Code)
- Experience with our core tech stack: Python, Flask, MySQL, Typescript, React
- Background in eCommerce or other product-led environments
- Experience optimising for cost and scalability
- Familiarity with application and network security
What the job involves
- We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to join our growing Technology Team. This is a hybrid role with three days a week in our Paddington HQ (Monday, Tuesday, and Friday), and two days remote
- As an Engineering Manager, you’ll lead and enable one or more of our engineering teams to deliver high-quality, impactful software that powers Skin + Me’s personalised skincare platform
- You’ll balance people leadership, technical direction, and delivery excellence, supporting engineers to grow while ensuring our systems are robust, scalable, and aligned with business goals
- This is a key role at the intersection of product and technology. You’ll work closely with Product Managers, Designers, and other stakeholders from discovery through delivery, ensuring the team builds the right thing, in the right way, at the right time
- End-to-End Ownership:
- Take accountability for the delivery, operation, and reliability of your team’s products and services
- Ensure infrastructure, testing, observability, and security are embedded in everything we build
- Foster a “you build it, you run it” mindset and drive continuous improvement in stability, scalability, and cost-efficiency
- People Leadership & Team Development:
- Manage and mentor up to 10 software engineers across one or more teams
- Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and development planning
- Foster a culture of psychological safety, collaboration, and learning
- Identify growth opportunities and support engineers in achieving their goals
- Encourage autonomy, accountability, and high standards in everything the team delivers
- Technical Leadership & Architecture:
- Define and uphold the technical direction and architectural integrity of your team’s work
- Make pragmatic decisions that balance quality, speed, and long-term maintainability
- Support hands-on technical work when appropriate, especially during early-stage product discovery
- Champion best practices in design, testing, and code quality
- Delivery & Process:
- Partner with Product Managers to align technical delivery with business priorities
- Drive predictable, efficient delivery of features and improvements
- Continuously improve engineering workflows, communication, and release processes
- Use data and metrics to inform decisions and track team performance
- Product Collaboration:
- Work closely with Product and Design teams from early discovery through delivery
- Contribute to roadmap discussions, ensuring technical feasibility and long-term scalability
- Represent engineering in cross-functional planning and prioritisation
- Innovation & Productivity:
- Encourage experimentation, smart use of AI, and emerging tools to improve productivity
- Stay up to date with new technologies and assess their value to our stack
- Balance innovation with pragmatism, focusing on high-impact, high-leverage improvements
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Back in 2018, Skin + Me's founders identified a huge problem in the world of skincare: people don’t just struggle with their skin – they struggle with how they’re supposed to deal with it. With no truly effective solutions available, the company set out to build a pioneering online dermatology service that provides personalised skincare.
Skin + Me takes customers through a simple online medical consultation and work with dermatologists to prescribe a treatment, personalised to the individual. Part of the company's unique selling point is that its made-to-order formulation arrives through a subscription box each month and comes in a ‘Daily Doser’ – a specially designed bottle that dispenses the exact amount of the product needed for daily application.
Skin + Me is supported by a team of dermatologists, pharmacists and direct-to-consumer experts, which allows it to deliver across the business - from skin science to building the technology platform behind it. The company's growth plans include continual development of its services while ensuring it sticks to its ethos: providing desired, effective, and personalised skincare.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Top investors
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Feb 2023
$13.4m
SERIES B
Sep 2019
$10.7m
SEED
Total funding: $24.1m
Company benefits
- 25 Days Holiday (+ all the usual Bank Holidays) - It's important to take a break and recharge, that's why we offer a generous holiday allowance
- Free Breakfast & Lunch - It’s important you are well fueled for the day so we've got your breakfast and lunch covered. Plus drinks and snacks are available too!
- Hybrid Working Policy - We are all remote on Wednesday and Thursday. When we are in the office, our core hours are 10-4. If you're an early bird you can do 7-4, and if you're a night owl 10-7. Need more flexibility around your life? Just let us know
- Equity - We offer a competitive salary and a generous share award package that means every employee has a stake in the business. We really are all in this together
- Healthcare Cash Plan - Taking care of your physical & mental health is important. That’s why you’ll be able to claim money back for dental, optical and physio costs, alongside 24/7 access to mental health support and more
- Culture club – Our culture club team meets every week to make sure we celebrate our big wins and milestones too, with parties, surprises and more.
- Workplace Nursery Benefit - For working parents, we’re proud to offer assistance, helping you save on nursery fees. The workplace nursery benefit allows you to save tax and National Insurance on the full cost of your nursery fees each month
- Development Budget - £500 per person, per year for any learning, training and development opportunities. Courses, books, software – if it helps you in your role, we’ll help you get it
- Plus the usual suspects - You’ll get discounted skincare for you, and 10 friends + family, too. You can also take advantage of our cycle to work scheme, a generous employee referral scheme and a dog-friendly office
Company values
- Honesty, always - We default to open. We’re not afraid of uncomfortable conversations. We stand up for what we believe & don’t shy away from a challenge. We share knowledge and feedback. We’re all about transparency
- In It Together - We treat others the way we want to be treated. We value everyone’s voice. We embrace diversity . We’re not afraid to fail and we’re open about mistakes (we’re all human). We celebrate the successes as a team and we have fun!
- Make An Impact - We make decisions with value and impact in mind. We’re passionate about doing the right thing. We hold ourselves and each other accountable. We stay focused on our goals. We take calculated risks
- Never Sit Still - We are motivated to make a positive difference in our customers’ lives. We embrace the unknown. We’re curious and restless, bringing passion to everything we do. We’re adaptable and open-minded. We’re constantly learning new ways of doing things
Company HQ
2 Eastbourne Terrace, W2 6LG
Articles
Leadership
Horatio Cary
(Co-Founder & CEO)Former engineer at Graze prior to co-founding Skin+Me.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Skin + Me
Georgia Farris (People Manager)
- Championing equality and the gender divide at work is something everyone at Team Skin + Me cares about
- We believe that people from different backgrounds & cultures bring fresh ideas, ways of thinking and approaches which make the way work is undertaken more effective and efficient (as well as more fun & interesting!)
- We believe that everyone should be free to show up as their very best, most authentic self, however they identify
- We believe that equality is about human empathy, continuous education and living our values
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