Engineering Manager

About us: i6 provides the world’s most advanced end-to-end Aviation fuel management technology - enabling operational efficiency, transparency, and sustainability for airlines, fuel service providers, and suppliers. Our cloud-based solutions digitise the entire aviation fuel lifecycle through real-time fuel inventory and into-plane management platforms, patented electronic refuelling technology, and advanced fuel analytics and insights. With the adoption of our technology, our customers have been able to reduce thousands of tonnes of CO2 and benefited from millions in cost savings.

Your new role: In your new role as an Engineering Manager at i6, you will oversee up to four engineering teams — each with their own Technical Lead. You will be pivotal in scaling i6’s engineering operations, driving technical excellence, accelerating delivery, and fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and operational rigor.

What you will do:

• Technical Delivery: Overseeing architecture and infrastructure decisions for the Biosphere platforms with a specific focus on Cloud-agnostic designs to ensure portability and resilience across cloud providers (GCP/AWS). Upholding engineering best practices—Code Quality, CI/CD, Testing, Performance, Observability and Security Standards. Driving technical innovation. Optimising delivery processes (e.g. Agile/Scrum/Kanban). Establishing robust metrics, monitoring team performance, and driving continuous improvement. Ensuring timely, high-quality releases with reliability and maintainability in mind. Working with Tech Leads to implement patterns that minimize vendor lock-in, leveraging tools to maintain a provider-neutral ecosystem. Augmenting engineering capability by using appropriate AI coding tools.
• Leadership & Management: Line-managing 3–4 Technical Leads. Providing coaching, performance development, and mentorship. Ensuring career growth through planning and regular feedback. Aligning engineering roadmaps with business goals and product direction. Contributing to the creation and implementation of transparent “career ladders” for the roles within Engineering. Driving continuous improvement, by challenging the status quo and fostering a culture of innovation and product and technical ownership.
• Key Stakeholder Relationship Development: Collaborating with Product, Design, QA, and Customer Success to deliver impactful features. Build a strong relationship with our enabling teams from Infrastructure, Data and Integrations, encouraging more direct collaboration between engineers and their engineering colleagues.
• Culture: Championing i6’s values: Improve, Influence, Impress, Innovation, Intelligence, Integrity. Encouraging diversity, inclusion, collaboration, and a remote-first mindset. Fostering cross-team collaboration and removing obstacles to delivery.

Who you are: Proven experience managing multiple engineering teams (preferably 3–4), including line-management of Technical Leads. Bachelor’s degree - preferably in Software Engineering, Computer Science or similar, but other degrees would be considered. At least 10 years experience in the software development realm; at least 3 years leading teams. Note that you are not expected to code in this role, but experience with our primary languages and the ability to review output at a code level and overall quality standards (PHP and Javascript/Typescript) would be beneficial. Strong technical leadership in SaaS, Cloud-based platforms—ideally with real-time, data-driven applications and event-driven architectures. Experience with Agile methodologies and delivery frameworks. Strong grasp of architecture, and an ability to lead architectural decision making. Solid understanding of engineering best practices: CI/CD, code reviews, test automation, observability, performance management, security; and a track record of implementing them. Practical experience of embedding AI tools in engineering teams with measurable results. Demonstrated ability to mentor and grow technical leaders. Excellent communication and collaboration skills across functions. Experience with containerisation and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes, preferably in GCP or AWS environments. Demonstrated success in decomposing monolithic applications into asynchronous, event-based microservices that prioritize performance and fault tolerance. Deep understanding of event-driven design patterns and their application in scaling real-time, data-intensive SaaS platforms. Familiarity with message brokers and event streaming technologies and their operational trade-offs.

A bit more about us: We’ve recently raised our Series B funding. We are a remote first company with offices in Farnborough and Manchester. A number of our team are fully remote and some teams are primarily remote, typically meeting in the office once a month. We aim for all of the company to come together for a day once a quarter. Our benefits include: 25 days annual leave + your birthday day off, private healthcare and 5% pension contribution.