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Engineering Manager Jobs in London Area, United Kingdom at Tact
Title: Engineering Manager
Company: Tact
Location: London Area, United Kingdom
Engineering Manager – £140k – London
AI startup working at the frontier of agentic AI is building out their London engineering hub, and they want a founding Engineering Manager to lead it.
Real product, live enterprise customers, AI-native team.
Player-manager role. You won't be writing code full-time, but you'll be technical enough that your team trusts your judgement on the hard calls.
It's client-facing too. You'll be in working sessions with Fortune 500 stakeholders alongside your engineers, running discovery, defending architecture, and turning enterprise workflows into a roadmap your team can actually ship.
Your remit
- A team of 6 to 10 engineers across levels. Hiring, coaching, performance, promotions.
- Delivery for a meaningful product surface inside the AI agent platform
- Operational excellence: incident response, on-call, code review standards, release engineering
- Architecture and technical direction
- Customer working sessions and architecture defence in front of execs
- Helping shape the broader engineering brand in London through hiring and culture
Non-negotiables
- 6+ years in software engineering with a track record of shipping production systems
- 2+ years managing engineers directly, including hiring, performance management, and growing people into more senior versions of themselves
- AI-serious. You've led or contributed to shipping LLM-powered systems in production (agents, RAG, evaluation infrastructure) and have real opinions on what works
- Strong technical foundation across design reviews, production debugging, and AI/ML architecture
- Comfortable in front of enterprise customers
- Strong written and verbal communicator across design docs, customer updates, performance feedback and exec-level summaries
Strong plus
Background at an early or growth-stage startup. Time in a forward-deployed, solutions engineering, or client-embedded org at a B2B company.
Why this one
Real scope and real ownership of a meaningful surface of a live AI platform. Product is proven, customers are already shipping with it. AI-native in how they build, how they work, and what they sell. Early enough that you'd shape how the whole London engineering org grows. Direct exposure to executive leadership and a proper seat at the table with enterprise customers.
📍 London (office-based)
💰 £140,000 base salary
Interested?
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