Engineering Manager

Company Overview

Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas. These include airborne ISR, electronic warfare, secure communications, aerial refuelling, special air missions, aerial firefighting, and advanced simulation. We own the whole stack: designing, building, and operating turnkey capabilities that give our partners decisive, asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats.

Our operating model is built around three interlocking pillars. The Support Groups provide a global shared-service – spanning people, finance, platform, operations, legal, and engagement. This frees up our Core Groups, who develop and own mission capabilities end-to-end, to focus entirely on delivery. The Market Groups apply a regional lens, ensuring that our agile and adaptable capabilities remain aligned to the wicked problems that matter most to our partners across the Americas, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific.

At the heart of our model is a simple but powerful idea: be a true partner with skin in the game. Our partners need effects, not just equipment. By owning the full stack – from the lab to the field – we are able to drive a continuous cycle of innovation that keeps our partners ahead. It's a fast-moving, intellectually demanding environment where talented people are given real responsibility, work on problems that matter, and contribute to an enterprise that is growing quickly and deliberately.

Headquartered in Washington, DC, with facilities across the United States, the United Kingdom, as well as Continental Europe and Asia-Pacific.

Group Overview

This role sits within the Digital and Synthetic Group (D&S). The D&S Group is committed to providing mission-driven information solutions that seamlessly bridge the digital and physical realms. Leveraging cutting-edge technologies and advanced platforms, we empower operational readiness and elevate situational awareness across diverse domains—including air, maritime, and space.  

Position Summary

We are looking for a Engineering Manager to provide leadership for our internal knowledge management product as part of a product-led cross-functional software development team. Candidates should have solid knowledge and experience of best practices across the software development lifecycle, as well as excellent people leadership skills; they can be relied upon to build and maintain an engineering culture which is sustainably professional and positive, in which high-performing engineers can grow and thrive. 

Metrea is a people-first organisation and candidates should have strong communication skills and the desire to proactively elevate their team through continuous knowledge sharing, collaboration, feedback, and mentorship. 

What You'll Do

• Leading and coaching a team of highly talented engineers, taking responsibility for both their career and personal development


• Conducting regular catch-ups and check-ins with the team to help to support their day-to-day engineering activities


• Supporting product management and the technical leadership in refining requirements and shaping the deliverables the team will work on


• Helping to align team efforts with the broader strategic goals of the organisation, helping to plan for future resource requirements and technology adoption


• Developing and maintaining a deep relationship with the team’s Tech Lead and Product Manager to ensure team alignment and support delivery


• Unblocking the team by identifying and resolving technical or operational bottlenecks, helping to keep them productive


• Supporting initiatives across the business to improve engineering processes, code quality, release management and documentation


• Assisting with project scoping, capacity planning and resource allocation within your product development team


• Take responsibility for the hiring, onboarding and integrating new teammates into the product development team

What You Bring

• We are looking for someone with experience leading software development teams in fast-growing companies where you play a part in shaping ways of working, rather than follow pre-defined ones


• Experience in people leadership, having previously mentored and helped to develop the careers of software engineers


• Experience in employing agile methodologies in software development processes whilst working in a matrix organisation to help support the team establish and develop their ways of working


• A deep passion for personal development with a drive to be constantly learning and furthering your professional knowledge


• Strong organisational skills with an ability to work independently whilst planning, prioritising and managing your workload


• Great interpersonal skills, a servant-leadership mindset and the ability to confidently communicate with others, conveying technical content clearly and articulately to non-technical team members


• A background as a software engineer is a plus. You won’t be writing code yourself but it’s important that you understand the underlying purpose of our solutions and the typical challenges they will encounter, so you can effectively support and guide your team

Benefits

• Private Medical Insurance    


• Subsided gym membership / plans through Wellhub    


• Electric Car scheme    


• Cycle to work scheme    


• Pension scheme    


• Free lunch on office days   


• Enhanced Parental Leave   


• 30 days annual PTO plus b/h  


• Bonus Scheme  


• Personal development opportunities 

Work Authorization / Security Clearance

The employee will have the legal right to work in the United Kingdom and will be able to produce right to work documentation.  

AAP/EEO Statement

Metrea (MMD) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or other characteristics protected by law.   

Position Type and Expected Hours of Work

This is a full-time non-exempt position with typical working hours of Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Hours and work shifts may change in accordance with department and business needs. Exempt Employees must have the ability to be on-call and available, as business needs require. Non-Exempt employees may be required to work over 40 hours per week with approval from the department manager.    

Work Location

London

Work Environment

This job operates in an office setting.   

Travel

This role may require occasional travel to other Metrea offices, both in the UK and Europe.