Senior Engineering Manager - Platform

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Multiverse is the upskilling platform for AI and Tech adoption. We have partnered with 1,500+ companies to deliver a new kind of learning that''s transforming today’s workforce. Our upskilling apprenticeships are designed for people of any age and career stage to build critical AI, data, and tech skills. Our learners have driven $2bn+ ROI for their employers, using the skills they’ve learned to improve productivity and measurable performance. In June 2022, we announced a $220 million Series D funding round co-led by StepStone Group, Lightspeed Venture Partners and General Catalyst. With a post-money valuation of $1.7bn, the round makes us the UK’s first EdTech unicorn. We’re building a world where tech skills unlock people’s potential and output. Join Multiverse and power our mission to equip the workforce to win in the AI era.

The OpportunityAt Multiverse, we\''re on a mission to build the next generation of our product, and we need a strategic and forward-thinking Senior Engineering Manager to lead and manage multiple teams on our internal platform. If you are a leader driven by a passion for cutting-edge technology and empowering people, who thrives in dynamic, evolving environments, and is eager to balance rapid delivery with robust, scalable architecture, we encourage you to apply. You will be a key driver of innovation, particularly in how we leverage AI to enhance our products and create efficiencies in our engineering processes. Your leadership will directly contribute to our mission by ensuring your team is healthy, productive, and positioned for success in a fast-paced, ambitious environment.

Key Responsibilities

Team Leadership and Development: Lead, mentor, and foster high-performing engineering teams, cultivating a culture of ownership, trust, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Strategic Alignment and Delivery: Partner closely with Product, Design, and Data counterparts to define and execute your team\''s roadmap, ensuring tight alignment with Multiverse\''s strategic objectives.

Technical Vision and Architecture: Drive the technical direction and architectural decisions for your team\''s services, ensuring they are scalable, reliable, maintainable, and easy for other teams to adopt.

Complex Migrations: Lead critical technical migrations, minimising toil for consuming teams adopting new changes.

End-to-End Ownership: Own the complete development lifecycle for your team\''s commitments, from planning and execution through to deployment and monitoring.

Performance and Quality Metrics: Establish and track key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics to measure team performance, product quality, operational excellence, and the impact and adoption rate of new initiatives.

Talent Acquisition: Actively participate in hiring and onboarding top engineering talent to effectively scale the team.

AI Innovation Champion: Champion the adoption and implementation of AI tools and technologies to drive innovation, enhance developer productivity, and deliver intelligent features for our users.

About You

Technical Capability :

Leadership Experience: Demonstrable experience leading and managing multiple software engineering teams, ideally within dynamic, evolving, or high-growth environments where adaptability and rapid iteration are key. Proven history of shipping high-quality products and services.

Technical Management Depth: You have significant experience in software engineering and have successfully managed engineering teams that build and operate foundational services or internal developer platforms.

AI / ML Experience: Direct experience or a strong, demonstrable passion for leveraging AI, machine learning, or advanced data tooling to drive product innovation and improve internal efficiencies.

Complex Initiative Delivery: Track record of iteratively delivering and sustaining large, long-running technical initiatives through ambiguity and complexity.

Architectural Acumen: Solid understanding of modern software architecture principles, with experience building and scaling cloud-native applications and microservices.

Customer Empathy: Deep customer empathy, able to understand developer pain points and translate them into impactful platform features.

Communication and Influence: Excellent communication and influence skills.

Critical Thinking: Ability to think critically, navigate complex technical challenges, and make effective, data-informed decisions.

How You’ll Contribute

Commitment to Excellence: Sets a high bar for self and team, with a proven history of driving towards long-term goals and a passion for quality and impact.

Adaptability and Problem-Solving: You effectively navigate ambiguity and complexity, maintaining a focus on solutions and guiding your team through challenges with a positive, can-do attitude.

Impact Driven: Persistent focus on driving measurable results, using metrics to guide decisions and demonstrate the impact of your team\''s work.

Collaborative and Ethical: Acts with integrity and a collaborative spirit, contributing positively to the team and the wider work environment.

People Development: Passion for developing people and building inclusive, high-performing and empowered teams.

Growth Mindset: Demonstrates genuine eagerness to learn, develop, and grow. Believes that skills are developed through effort and sees setbacks as learning opportunities.

Curiosity (Especially in AI): Naturally curious and proactive in staying current with technological advancements, particularly in Artificial Intelligence, and thinks critically about its application.

Receptive to Feedback: Actively seeks, accepts, and implements feedback as a critical tool for personal and team improvement.

Self-Awareness: Demonstrates ability to reflect on own performance and personal growth, understanding strengths and areas for development.

Benefits

Time off - 27 days holiday, plus 7 additional days off: 1 life event day, 2 volunteer days and 4 company-wide wellbeing days and 8 bank holidays per year

Health and Wellness- private medical Insurance with Bupa, a medical cashback scheme, life insurance, gym membership and wellness resources through Gympass and access to Spill - all in one mental health support

Hybrid work offering - we collaborate in the office 3 days per week

Work-from-anywhere scheme - you\''ll have the opportunity to work from anywhere, up to 10 days per year

Team fun - weekly socials, company-wide events and office snacks!

Our commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: We’re an equal opportunities employer. And proud of it. Every applicant and employee is afforded the same opportunities regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. This will never change. Read our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion policy here.

Safeguarding: All posts in Multiverse involve some degree of responsibility for safeguarding. Successful applicants are required to complete a Disclosure Form from the Disclosure and Barring Service ("DBS") for the position. Failure to declare any convictions (that are not subject to DBS filtering) may disqualify a candidate for appointment or result in summary dismissal if the discrepancy comes to light subsequently.

Details

Seniority level: Mid-Senior level

Employment type: Full-time

Job function: Engineering and Information Technology

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