Senior Engineering Manager in London

DevRev is building the future of work with Computer – your AI teammate. Computer unifies data from tools like Google Workspace, Jira, and Notion into one AI-ready source of truth: Computer Memory. It provides powerful search, reasoning, action, and extensions for teams and customers, enabling human–AI collaboration and reducing repetition and frustration in daily work. DevRev is backed by Khosla Ventures and Mayfield, with 150M+ raised, and is 650+ people across eight global offices. DevRev’s mission is to unlock team potential through human-AI collaboration.

We have built a native Knowledge Graph capable of syncing structured and unstructured records from external systems, providing semantic search, automations, agentic skills, and deep analytical querying. This is coupled with permission/access management, an agent studio, an execution engine, and a native observability platform to enable agentic applications for enterprises and startups alike.

About the role:

To build agentic applications, we must ingest, index, and serve large data volumes, enable agents and automations to fetch, reason, process events, and analyze and aggregate data to unlock intelligence, while giving customers full control to customize their business on top of DevRev. We seek experienced engineering leaders who are passionate about fast, reliable, and personalizable platforms that delight customers.

You will lead a team of senior to early-career engineers, design and build alongside your team, drive technical direction and execution, and develop the team. You will balance deep technical judgment with empathy for engineers and customers to ensure backend and frontend systems are elegant, scalable, and deliver measurable customer impact.

What You'll Do

• Lead your team to design and build scalable, distributed backend systems and frontend components, taking ownership of clarity and execution.
• Stay hands-on — contribute to architecture, design reviews, and implementation of critical components.
• Be accountable for customer delight, ensuring systems deliver performance, reliability, and simplicity at scale.
• Mentor and coach engineers to solve complex scalability, performance, and multi-tenancy challenges while growing technical depth and ownership.
• Drive technical excellence through distributed systems best practices, API-first design, and CI/CD to ensure high deployment velocity and reliability.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across engineering, product, sales, marketing, and customer success to incorporate customer and market needs, align priorities, and drive clarity.

What You'll Need

• 10–15 years software engineering experience in large-scale distributed systems.
• 5+ years leading teams delivering high-performance, reliable, multi-tenant SaaS backends with frontend components.
• Expertise in defining clean interfaces, distributed systems, databases, message buses (Kafka preferred), and modern cloud-native architectures (Kubernetes, Docker, Serverless).
• Proficiency in Go (preferred), Java, or Python.
• Demonstrated ability to balance technical strategy with execution excellence.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Experience mentoring senior engineers and fostering a culture of ownership and learning.
• BS/MS in Computer Science or related field.

Bonus Points

• Deep understanding of performance tuning and optimization in high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems.
• Experience leading teams building GenAI agentic reasoning engines that leverage memory, skills, and tools for complex task completion.

Why Join DevRev?

DevRev builds an AI-native platform that reimagines how teams and organizations work. Our teams work on cutting-edge technologies with autonomy and purpose. We value transparency, honesty, and doing the right thing for customers, the company, and employees. DevRev is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. As part of our hiring process, shortlisted candidates will undergo a Background Verification (BGV). By applying, you consent to sharing personal information required for this process. Any offer is subject to successful completion of the BGV.

Culture

The foundation of DevRev is its culture — hungry, humble, honest, and with heart. Our vision is to help build the earth’s most customer-centric companies. Our mission is to leverage design, data engineering, and machine intelligence to empower engineers to embrace their customers. That is DevRev!