Engineering Manager (Data Team) in London

We’re growing fast and our Engineering team will double in size over the next 3 months. This is a unique opportunity to help shape the foundation of a fast-moving, product-driven startup during a critical phase of growth. In this role, you will lead our Data Engineering team, which is responsible for the pipelines and infrastructure powering our AI-driven commerce intelligence platform. Our systems acquire and process hundreds of millions of synthetic prompts and signals, and the platform is expected to scale significantly as our traffic grows rapidly over the coming months.

A major focus of this role is helping the team evolve our data platform toward a scalable data lake architecture while maintaining reliability for critical production pipelines used by enterprise customers. You’ll lead the charge on execution, quality, and team culture. You’ll help transform early-stage velocity into mature, high-performing teams without losing the edge and pace that define great startups. At the same time, you will help the team move from a highly reactive operational mode toward a more sustainable, scalable engineering model, reducing incidents and freeing engineers to focus on higher-impact work such as platform improvements and new capabilities, while retaining excellent incident response practices.

The role is linked with our location in London, but we are fully remote in the UK.

What you’ll be doing:

• Manage and support a team of 6 Data Engineers distributed across Europe, helping them focus on the most impactful technical initiatives as the platform scales.
• Drive execution excellence, ensuring the team delivers with high velocity, quality, and reliability, while maintaining strong cross-functional alignment.
• Implement and evolve processes, tools, and metrics to support scalable and repeatable delivery.
• Lead efforts to reduce operational incidents and improve pipeline reliability, helping the team move away from reactive firefighting toward proactive engineering.
• Foster a healthy and sustainable team environment by helping the team manage workload, reduce burnout, and focus on meaningful engineering work.
• Help position Data Engineering as a center of excellence for data, promoting best practices around data ownership, data platforms, and data-driven decision making across teams.
• Provide technical capabilities and repeatable patterns to enable the whole organization to use data at scale.
• Contribute in code reviews and establish processes that keep pushing the bar on engineering excellence.
• Identify and address bottlenecks, inefficiencies, or misalignments, always looking for ways to raise the bar.

As our Engineering Manager you will:

• Have experience leading and scaling high-performing engineering teams in multiple organizations.
• Have experience working with data platforms, data pipelines, or data infrastructure, and understand concepts such as data lakes, data warehousing, and large-scale data processing.
• Ideally have a background as a Data Engineer or Backend Engineer working with data systems, with experience in technologies such as Python, TypeScript and cloud-native infrastructure (ideally AWS).
• Have experience operating in environments with high data volume, complex orchestration, rapidly evolving systems, and strong reliability requirements.
• Have a strong understanding of organizational architecture, domain-driven design, and their impact on data flow modelling.
• Lead with humility, clarity, and high standards.
• Have previous experience in a startup environment and thrive in fast-moving, ambiguous situations.

About Bluefish:

Bluefish believes that AI represents the next major chapter of the internet – and that consumers will increasingly use AI to consume information and media online. On this new AI internet, brands will need new tools and technologies to tell their stories to consumers online – and a new marketing ecosystem will be created around AI. Bluefish is building the platform that helps brands engage consumers on this new AI channel, with powerful enterprise tools to manage AI brand safety and engage consumers with thoughtful and personalized AI marketing experiences.

Why Bluefish & Our Values:

• Unique opportunity to join on the ground floor of a fast-moving startup building at the center of AI.
• Tackle challenging and abstract problems while disrupting the $300B legacy mar-tech industry.
• Join an experienced high-performing team where you will have immediate ownership and impact.
• Experience a true meritocracy with significant career growth upside as the business scales.

Our Values:

• Demonstrated grit and resourcefulness – you find creative solutions, adapt quickly, and aren’t afraid to roll up your sleeves in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
• Thoughtful and strategic thinker with the ability to anticipate needs, ask the right questions, and deliver insights that truly drive value.
• Proven ability to collaborate across functions and roles, fostering open communication and shared ownership of outcomes.
• Commitment to craftsmanship – you take pride in delivering high-quality work, paying attention to the small details while keeping the big picture in mind.
• Self-starter with a proactive mindset and a strong sense of accountability – able to drive projects forward independently while staying aligned with team goals.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and learning new tools, processes, or technologies to get the job done.