-Join a collaborative software engineering community across Sweden and the UK, where you’ll shape ways of working and drive continuous improvement together.

-Be empowered to take ownership - this is a role for someone who thrives on autonomy, proactivity, and making tangible improvements.

-Work with experienced, high-performing engineers in a complex product environment that offers both technical and organisational challenges.

-Play a key role in driving adoption of modern practices including AI-enabled ways of working and scalable engineering processes.

-Work for a profitable, fast-growing market leader in the online reward and employee benefits space.

Great benefits:

🧠 ITP1 pension.

❤️ Lifeplan - a leading financial advisory service that offers personalized advice for maximizing your pension savings.

📝 Collective agreement.

💸 Access to our comprehensive benefits portal.

🤸 Generous wellness allowance.

✈️ 30 vacation days / year.

💰 Referral bonuses.

🌟 Enhanced parental pay.

🙂 Volunteer Days – two paid days annually to give back to the community.

Role Overview 🚀

As Engineering Manager, you will lead two teams, one consisting of 6 people and the other of 4, responsible for complex domains within the Benifex platform. Their responsibilities span our mobile app, shared frontend framework, platform look and feel, and employee experience products, as well as Pay Transparency, Total Reward Statements and Projections, and the APIs and services that support employee documents and payslips. The teams combine product development with the ongoing improvement of a large, established codebase, with a focus on reliability, accessibility and continuous improvement. You will drive delivery, coach your teams to improve performance, and ensure smooth collaboration across this distributed setup. This is a leadership role with a strong focus on people, delivery, and continuous improvement. Success in this role means proactively identifying opportunities, removing bottlenecks, and enabling your teams to consistently perform at their best.

Responsibilities 🤘

-Lead and develop two engineering teams, ensuring strong delivery performance, clear accountability, and continuous improvement across teams.

-Act as first escalation point for engineers, guiding work, estimations, removing blockers, and supporting day-to-day delivery.

-Own delivery outcomes across teams, tracking progress, velocity, and ensuring commitments against roadmap and goals are met.

-Partner closely with Product Managers and Tech Leads to align on roadmap, priorities, and execution.

-Coach engineers and tech leads, providing feedback, supporting growth, and strengthening overall team capability.

-Drive agile ways of working, ensuring effective ceremonies, strong execution, and continuous improvement while balancing team autonomy.

-Standardise and evolve engineering practices and processes (e.g. code quality, ways of working) together with other Engineering Managers.

-Use OKRs, metrics, and delivery tracking to measure quality, performance, and progress.

-Champion adoption of AI and modern tooling to improve engineering efficiency and effectiveness.

What are we looking for? 🔎

-Proven experience as an Engineering Manager with strong leadership seniority and a track record of building and leading high-performing engineering teams with a focus on delivery, continuous improvement, and measurable results.

-Strong technical understanding from a software engineering background, with ability to translate product requirements into team plans, capacity, and execution.

-Strong people leadership skills, including coaching, performance management, feedback, and the ability to build trust and motivation in teams.

-Solid understanding of Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban), including sprint planning, estimation, task breakdown, and iterative delivery.

-Ability to drive engineering quality, including high coding standards, maintainability, testing practices, and prevention of technical debt.

-Collaborative and empathetic leadership style with strong communication skills and ability to work closely with engineers, tech leads, product managers, and other stakeholders.

-Strong interest in modern engineering practices, including Generative AI (Prompt Engineering, Fine Tuning, RAG) and adoption of AI/tools to improve efficiency.

-Passion for product and quality, with a focus on both user value and engineering standards and excellence.

We look forward to receiving your application!

If you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage during the recruitment process, please let us know with your application.