Engineering Manager Scrum in London

About the job As a Software Engineering Manager, Travel & Expense, you will lead the engineering squad building Spendesk's travel and out-of-pocket expense experiences.

You will own team objectives and delivery against clear KPIs and SLOs across trips, hotel and travel booking, budgets and approvals, expense claims, mileage, per diems, compliance, and connected spend workflows.

You will grow and engage a cross-functional team of fullstack and mobile engineers, while providing technical leadership on architecture, reliability, security, production issues, code quality, and integrations with travel suppliers and Spendesk's financial platform.

The Engineering Manager is expected to demonstrate leadership, initiative, customer obsession, operational excellence, and commitment to Spendesk's values and objectives.

As we are an international team, please submit your application and CV in English.

Key Responsibilities Lead, mentor, and develop a team of around 10 software engineers, including feedback, performance management, progression, recruitment, and onboarding.

Set objectives and deliver the Travel & Expense roadmap with the Product Manager, Product Designer, and Tech Leader on a quarterly basis planning divided in 2 weeks sprints Improve customer experiences across trips, hotel booking, travel approvals, expense claims, mileage, per diems, reimbursement, and compliance.

Guide architecture and integrations across travel suppliers, cards, payments, invoices, accounting, identity, and security services.

Maintain high standards for code quality, testing, security, observability, SLOs, incident response, and production ownership.

The product area focuses on two connected customer needs: helping employees manage business travel and helping employees submit and receive reimbursement for out-of-pocket, policy-based spend.

Travel management: trips, hotel booking, travel budgets, approvals, travel policies, booking, and post-booking experiences.

Expense management: expense claims, mileage, per diems, reimbursement status, and local compliance requirements.

Spend connectivity: links between trips, cards, expense claims, invoices, accounting, and financial reporting.

Platform and integrations: external travel suppliers and internal payment, identity, security, and financial services.

Engineers participate in quality assurance, production support, documentation, and continuous improvement.

The team works in short iterations, uses customer and product data to guide decisions, and maintains a focus on reliability, security, compliance, and measurable business impact.

Trusted by thousands of companies, Spendesk supports over 200,000 users across brands such as Payfit, Accor, Welcome to the Jungle, Swile, Big Mamma, Malt and Yousign.

With offices in the United Kingdom, France, Spain and Germany, Spendesk also puts community at the heart of its mission.

Flexible on-site and remote policy Latest Apple equipment — the tools you need to excel Access to Moka. care — for emotional and mental health wellbeing Great office snacks — to fuel your day A positive team to work with daily!

We also offer location-specific benefits tailored to each market, including health insurance, wellness allowances, commuter support, meal vouchers, and gym memberships — ensuring you're well supported wherever you're based.

Diversity & Inclusion At Spendesk, we're committed to fostering an environment where all differences are encouraged, supported and celebrated.

We're building our culture for everyone, with everyone.