Engineering Manager

Our Recognition & Celebrations team is at the heart of how Workhuman helps our customers build and sustain cultures of gratitude. The team comprises multiple squads dedicated to designing and delivering innovative market‑leading solutions that enable our customers to spread a culture of recognition and celebration within their workplaces.

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• An opportunity to guide influence strategy and own delivery within your product area, collaborating across engineering, architecture and product to ensure successful execution of deliverables
  
• An opportunity to lead a high‑performing team, bringing together individuals with diverse backgrounds, skills and expertise to build great products
  
• An opportunity to guide your team in driving impactful outcomes in an environment where organisational, strategic and technical ambiguity and change is common
  
• An opportunity to lead and contribute to strategic & technical initiatives, driving continuous improvement across the Technology department
  
• An opportunity to drive the full talent lifecycle for your functional area, championing a culture of growth and development through a rich set of facilitation, coaching and mentorship skills
  

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• Communication & Influencing: You have excellent communication skills, which you use to create a collaborative high‑trust environment where the expression of diverse ideas and opinions is valued
  
• Thinking Strategically: You help your team understand, align and deliver to strategic goals
  
• Agile mindset: You own and facilitate your squad’s software development lifecycle and agile practices, coaching individuals and teams using agile & lean values & principles while fostering continuous improvement to maximise delivery effectiveness and team health
  
• Leading people: You have experience recruiting and evolving existing teams into high‑performing, collaborative teams with high trust, where people can do their best work
  
• Problem solving: You can analyse situations, diagnose problems, identify key issues and act decisively and promptly
  
• Adaptability & Resilience: You have the ability and flexibility to embrace change and work with ambiguity, supporting others throughout the change process
  
• Technical Accountability: You take ownership of your squad’s technical capabilities, operational excellence, and code quality, ensuring the team maintains high engineering standards
  
• Technical Foundation: You have 5+ years of hands‑on software development or technological experience. Experience with SaaS cloud‑based platforms, Android, iOS, or similar technologies would be advantageous
  

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• You have experience leading a team of engineers, enabling them to achieve key business results through their design and software development activities in an agile development environment
  
• You have confidently influenced and guided your team’s execution aligned to product strategy across six‑to‑twelve‑month time horizons
  
• You have guided your team in proactively driving impactful outcomes in the face of significant organisational and technical ambiguity and change
  
• You have led a product delivery team throughout the entire end‑to‑end product development life cycle
  
• You cultivate an environment of accountability, trust and psychological safety where people are able to do their best work
  
• You have built world‑class teams and a culture for scale through hiring, developing and retaining talent
  
• You have led and contributed to cross‑cutting initiatives that drive continuous improvement across Engineering
  
• You have driven the full‑talent lifecycle for your team, championing a culture of growth and development through extensive coaching
  

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• 25 days annual leave (increasing with tenure)
  
• VHI health & dental cover for employee + dependents
  
• Pension scheme (post‑probation)
  
• Income protection & life assurance
  
• Employee recognition programs
  
• Tuition reimbursement & access to Workhuman University
  
• Perks: free breakfast & lunch options, catered events, wellness activities, onsite gym, travel discounts, car parking
  

At Workhuman® our mission is to bring more humanity to the workplace. We recognise and embrace individuals’ differences and believe that workforce diversity and inclusion are essential to our long‑term growth and success. Even if you don’t think you “check every single box” above, please still consider applying. We love what we do because we’re shaping the future of work through our people and our technology. Our cloud‑based applications help the world’s leading global brands connect culture to shared purpose, enabling employees to thank, talk and celebrate each other, which sparks gratitude, human connection and increases engagement and productivity.

We are proud of our culture across EMEA and North America. We were named in the Great Place to Work Awards and recognized as Best Workplace for Women and for Technology in multiple years. Our core values are Respect, Determination, Innovation and Imagination.

Workhuman is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees. xcfaprz We provide a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. Employment decisions are based solely on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by law.