Engineering Manager

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# Engineering Manager > Abtrace · London, United Kingdom (Hybrid) · Full-time · Posted 2026-05-08 **Workplace:** hybrid ## Description Abtrace is transforming primary care by enabling proactive, preventative healthcare at scale. We support 500+ practices and 4.5M patients across the UK, helping teams identify risk earlier, act sooner, and deliver care efficiently - without extra burden. Our Engineering team builds robust, scalable, and high-impact software that drives real outcomes. As we scale, we're evolving our culture to move fast, raise the bar, and deliver at startup speed. **What You’ll Do** As an Engineering Manager, you will...: - **Lead&Scale:** Grow, mentor and manage high-performing engineering teams, with a focus on speed, rigor, and accountability. - **Mentor&Grow:** Coach engineers to improve technically and professionally, creating a clear growth path. - **Set the Bar:** Implement engineering best practices and raise the quality bar across code, architecture, and delivery. - **Transform Culture:** Help transition the team from early-stage startup to an elite engineering organization with structure, pace, and intensity. - **Own Delivery:** Ensure projects are delivered rapidly, always putting customer needs at the heart of what we do - **Drive Performance:** Cultivate a high-output, high-trust culture where engineers take full ownership and move quickly without sacrificing quality. - **Hire A+ Talent:** Recruit, onboard, and retain top engineers who are drawn to a fast, demanding, high growth environment. - **Collaborate Cross-Functionally:** Work closely with Product, Design, and Ops to prioritize and execute. **You Might Be a Fit If You…** - Have **3+ years of engineering leadership experience** in high-growth startups or scale-ups. - Have **seen scale before and be hungry to build it again** - Cultivate and support engineering in high-velocity environments with clear KPIs and performance expectations. - Know how to **balance speed with engineering rigor**—shipping fast, but (rarely) breaking things. - Are hands-on enough to jump into code or architecture discussions but know how to delegate and empower. - Have a strong **product mindset**—you care about outcomes, not just output. - Are relentless about **raising the bar** on execution, hiring, and accountability. - Have some hands-on experience with Python, React, public cloud environments (AWS preferred), distributed systems (such as Kubernetes), and infrastructure as code. ## Benefits - Private Pension - Share Options scheme - Generous sick and maternity/paternity leave - As much freedom and independence as you earn, and a chance to grow rapidly as the company does. - Flexi and hybrid working - Company's office in Paddington - easy commute and comfortable surroundings - Motivated, highly functioning, multi-disciplinary team ## Apply [Apply at Abtrace](https://apply.workable.com/abtrace/j/0E4AC080D0/apply) --- Powered by [Workable](https://www.workable.com)