Engineering Manager (Hands-on)

At Ledgy, we’re on a mission to make Europe a powerhouse of entrepreneurship by building a modern, tech-driven equity management and financial reporting platform for private and public companies. We are a value-based company with a core focus on being humble, transparent, ambitious and impactful, all in order to deliver the best experience for our customers and end users.

As a hands-on Engineering Manager of one of our feature teams at Ledgy, you'll lead the engineers who build the features that help companies offer, manage, and communicate compensation and savings vehicles: from equity plans to pensions, carry, and beyond. Your team works on the products employees and companies use to make sense of complex compensation structures, while you stay close enough to the work to help the team make strong technical and product decisions.

You’ll combine hands-on engineering leadership with thoughtful team development. The role is about staying close enough to the work to guide decisions, while creating the conditions for engineers to lead within their areas. AI-assisted engineering is a critical part of that leadership: you’ll help the team use AI tools deliberately, with strong judgment about when they accelerate delivery, improve quality, or require human oversight.

We hire remotely across the UK, Spain, Germany, Poland, and Romania. For candidates based in London, we use a hybrid model with 2 days in the office per week.

Teams we’re hiring for:

• Share & Fund Plans — Expands the product beyond classic equity compensation into broader ownership and executive compensation.
• AI Systems — Develops Ledgy’s AI foundations and product experiences, from AI agents and AI-assisted workflows to the platform capabilities that help other teams embed AI safely in their domains.
• Tax — Ensures taxes are correctly reflected throughout equity operations, especially moments such as exercising, selling, mobility, and other taxable events.

What You'll Do

• Lead and coach a team of engineers, including regular 1:1s, feedback, and performance conversations.
• Set technical and product direction with your team, rather than defining every answer yourself.
• Stay involved in execution through code reviews, architecture discussions, and selective hands-on contributions.
• Partner with Product and Design to turn complex domain needs into clear, usable product experiences.
• Model responsible AI-assisted engineering practices and help the team apply them in day-to-day work.

You'll Thrive in This Role If You

• Have 2+ years in Engineering Management and 6+ years as a Software Engineer, with meaningful time in product-focused or domain-heavy roles.
• Enjoy developing people and creating an environment where engineers can do their best work.
• Prefer leadership roles where you can stay technically engaged rather than manage from a distance.
• Use AI tools in your own engineering work and think critically about their strengths, limitations, and responsible use.
• Are energised by features that have a direct, visible impact on end users.
• Care deeply about correctness in domains where getting things wrong has real financial consequences.
• Are comfortable with evolving scope as Ledgy expands into new forms of compensation.

Our Tech Stack

• Language: TypeScript
• Frontend: React, Tailwind CSS, tRPC
• Backend: tRPC, Node.js, MongoDB, Temporal
• Infrastructure: Docker, GitHub Actions, GCP, Terraform Cloud, Kubernetes

What Your Journey Could Look Like

• First 30 Days - Build relationships with your direct reports and develop a solid understanding of the compensation domain.
• First 3 Months - Own the team’s delivery rhythm: roadmap reviews, sprint health, and unblocking engineers.
• 6–12 Months - Be recognised as the technical leader for compensation and savings features at Ledgy.

The Interview Process

• Getting to know you (30 min): Meet with someone from our people team to talk about your experience and to answer questions about the role.
• Live Coding (60 min): An equity domain problem to solve collaboratively using your preferred language and IDE.
• System Design (60 min): A system design session where you will design an architecture for a problem from the Ledgy domain.
• Mock 1:1 (45 min): A mock coaching conversation with one of our engineers.
• Culture & Vision (30 min): A chance to meet one of our founders and your hiring manager for a chat about Ledgy’s mission and values.

Being part of Ledgy means:

• Recharge and re-energize with flexible working hours, 25 days of vacation, and up to 40 days of remote work from outside your home country.
• We make space for your own professional development, with a generous yearly learning & development budget.
• This role will receive a competitive salary + benefits + equity.