Location
Remote, Central London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Competitive salary

About the Role
DISCO is the industry standard for managing, organising and sharing music and other media. We make music and media workflow fast, intuitive and simple, directly connecting people and their work to save time. Our customers include UMG, Sony, Warner Music, Netflix, Amazon, and over 250,000 people interact with DISCO each month. As an Engineering Manager, you combine technical expertise with strong leadership to guide a team of product engineers in delivering impactful outcomes for DISCO and our customers. You will contribute directly to technical design, implementation, and optimisation within your team’s scope and across the engineering organisation, while supporting engineers to grow their skills and careers. You know when to be hands-on in solving technical challenges and when to focus on strategy and people management. You will work closely with product and design peers to prioritise and deliver work that balances feature delivery with quality, performance, and reliability, ensuring technical feasibility and customer value. You will collaborate with technical leaders to drive engineering and architecture excellence and work with data and market-facing teams in the UK to support our biggest enterprise customers. As a leader, you will foster a high-performance culture of ownership, technical excellence, and collaboration, while supporting team autonomy and aligning with broader engineering standards.

Responsibilities
Product & Technical Leadership – Define and track OKRs in collaboration with Product and Design, ensuring alignment with strategic goals. Balance feature development with addressing technical debt and improving system health in a well-structured Agile process. Guide thoughtful adoption of AI tooling to efficiently deliver secure, high-quality engineering work at scale. Technical Oversight – Guide technical discovery, review designs and architecture decisions, and contribute to development when necessary to support the team’s success. Team Development – Mentor and grow engineers of varying seniority through regular 1:1s, career development plans, and structured feedback. Foster a culture of engagement, ownership, and technical excellence. Cross-functional Collaboration – Work closely with Product and Design to ensure technical feasibility, maintain high-quality standards, and deliver impactful solutions. Engineering Standards & Best Practices – Help define and implement engineering standards across teams, ensuring consistency in quality, performance, and reliability. Operational Excellence – Monitor and maintain engineering health metrics (SLOs, error rates, cycle time, operational costs) to drive improvements in processes, system performance and reliability. Incident Management & On-call Processes – Oversee incident response and post-mortems, ensuring effective resolution and long-term fixes for recurring issues. Continuous Improvement – Drive enhancements in development workflows, testing practices, CI/CD pipelines, and overall engineering efficiency.

Experience
Proven experience leading a team of engineers in a high-growth or complex product environment, with a focus on mentorship, team development, and fostering a strong engineering culture. Deep understanding of designing, building, and maintaining scalable web applications, APIs, and distributed systems, ideally in a SaaS or cloud-based environment. Experience working closely with Product, Design, and other engineering teams to align on goals, manage dependencies, and deliver high-quality solutions. Familiarity with monitoring, incident response, and maintaining service reliability at scale, including working with SLOs, observability platforms, and optimising for cost efficiency. Knowledge of modern software development workflows, including CI/CD, testing strategies, and iterative improvement of engineering processes.

About You
Customer-focused with a deep understanding of customer needs, engaging in product strategy and building great solutions that support our biggest customers. Ability to balance business and engineering priorities by making strategic trade-offs between feature development, technical debt, and operational improvements, and articulating a clear, data-driven business case for decisions. Strong communication and influence skills, able to clearly explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Passionate about building a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications
Strong knowledge of modern backend and frontend technologies, system performance optimisation, and architectural best practices for high-traffic applications. Bonus skills include experience with React, Typescript, Python, and Postgres. Hands-on experience with modern DevOps practices, including CI/CD and cloud infrastructure. Familiarity with observability tools, monitoring, and error tracking. Experience working in a high-scale SaaS or cloud-based environment is a plus.