Engineering Manager - Energy

Hi! We're UW. We’re on a mission to take the headache out of utilities by providing them all in one place. One bill for energy, broadband, mobile and insurance and a whole lot of savings! We’re aiming to double in size as we help more people to stop wasting time and money—big ambitions, to be delivered by people like you.

Energy is at the heart of UW, with over 95% of our customers taking at least one Energy service. We work in small, fully autonomous teams with real ownership of their products. You will join the Technology & Product function, specifically within the Engineering family. You will co-lead a squad alongside a Product Manager, working in a cross-functional environment with colleagues in UX and Data. Your role is to create clarity, consistency, and momentum within your squad while raising the team's voice to senior leadership. You'll act as a bridge, interacting with stakeholders across the business to provide vital insight and context to your team.

As an Engineering Manager at UW you create clarity, consistency, and momentum in your squad. You set direction, ensure high standards in both delivery and quality, and balance short-term goals with long-term sustainability. You invest in people through coaching, feedback, and development, while fostering a positive team culture. You communicate effectively across levels, manage complexity, and continuously grow as a leader in order to enable your teams to do their best work.

You will have the following responsibilities:

• Technical Mastery: Take responsibility for the technical decisions the squad makes and ensure they align with company and technical strategy. You have a clear understanding of the engineering practices within the team and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Impact: Take an integral role in defining team goals and ensuring proposed work is aligned with them. You drive prioritisation within the team to best achieve goals.
• Operational Excellence: Identify and put in place practices needed to ensure security and operational service level objectives (SLOs) are met.
• Planning & Delivery: Work with the Product Manager and team to set objectives and key results (OKRs) that align with company goals.
• People & Coaching: You ensure the squad is staffed with the technical skillsets to deliver objectives, developing skills within team members and/or hiring as needed.
• Business & Domain knowledge: Understand and communicate company, department, and pillar strategy and goals to your squad.
• Leadership & Culture: Teach our culture to others and foster a healthy dynamic within your team.

We’ve got big ambitions so there’s going to be plenty of challenges. There are also a lot of benefits:

• Competitive salary: We benchmark against the industry and will share the salary openly during our first conversation.
• Performance bonus: An annual discretionary bonus ranging from 15-40%.
• Flexible working: We’re a remote-first business.
• Work-life balance: We offer an optional four-day working week (90% pay for 90% impact).
• Work from anywhere: You can work abroad for up to three weeks, twice every tax year.
• Holiday: 25 days plus bank holidays (increasing with tenure), with the option to trade up to five days each year.
• UW discounts: Save on our services and get a free Cashback Card.
• Future planning: Matched-contribution pension scheme and life assurance (up to 4x salary).
• Family first: Policies designed to help you and your family thrive.
• Flexible benefits: An allowance for private health insurance, dental insurance, or gym membership.
• Sabbaticals: An eight-week paid sabbatical after four years of service.
• Growth: A dedicated learning and development budget and bi-annual promotion cycles.
• Inclusion: Join belonging groups that help shape our culture.
• Events: Company-wide celebrations including the ‘Great Big Get Together’ and our ‘Good Hearted Go-Getter Awards’.

Not sure you meet all the requirements? Let us decide! We provide equal opportunities, a diverse and inclusive work environment, and fairness for everyone. You are welcome to apply no matter your age, disability, gender, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.

Please note, if you are successful and offered a role at UW, you will be subject to a background check. Where checks are unsatisfactory or incomplete and/or a failure to reveal information relating to convictions that you are required to identify as part of the background checks, could lead to withdrawal of an offer of employment.