Engineering Manager
🐦 About Birdie
At Birdie, we’re reimagining care for older adults. We’re building the technology that powers the future of home healthcare, empowering care teams with tools to deliver better, more dignified care, and enabling older people to thrive in their own homes for longer. Our all-in-one solution powers millions of care visits every month, equipping care providers with the tools they need to deliver exceptional, efficient care.
We’re not here to tinker at the edges. We’re here to radically transform a broken system.
That’s why we’ve built an all-in-one platform that supported over 60 million care visits and enabled care for 116,000 individuals everyday in 2025, and we continue to grow our impact. We’re scaling fast, but staying true to our purpose. That’s why we’re proud to be a B Corp, using business as a force for good.
Founded in 2017, Birdie is backed by world-class investors like Index Ventures, Sofina and Omers. In 2023, we ranked #6 in the Deloitte Fast 50, making us one of the fastest-growing tech companies in the UK.
You can check out more about our impact and recognition here. But speed isn’t the point. Impact is.
🤩 Your mission
As an engineering manager, you will build teams that ship great software, fast. You are responsible for keeping delivery moving quickly while maintaining high quality standards – and making sure what you ship helps our partners deliver outstanding care to the 116,000+ people our platform helps support, every day. You will support your engineers' growth and keep them engaged, while pushing the team to achieve ambitious goals and solve hard technical problems. You will be a role model for other Engineering Managers, championing excellence when it comes to shipping quickly and sustainably. Working closely with your product and design partners, you will keep the team focused on delivering real impact.
🤩 How you will contribute
You coach, guide and unblock engineers in their career, personal development, and ability to craft high-quality software.
You invest with product and design peers in your effectiveness as team leaders together.
You work with product and design peers to deliver on a compelling strategy (aligned with company objectives), driving ambiguity out of plans and making tradeoffs explicit.
You use your technical background and ability to empower, mentor and lead engineers, deeply empathising with their challenges.
You take ownership of team services, ensuring your team delivers good software and a high standard of service to users.
You own the shape of your engineering team, collaborating closely with talent acquisition and people chapters to ensure the right composition now and in the future.
🤩 We’d love to hear from you if
You have proven experience as an Engineering Manager with successful people management skills and a bias for action.
You have a strong set of technical skills, able to weigh in on technical discussions and drive good technical practices.
You have applied knowledge of the ins and outs of coaching & growing distributed product teams.
You embrace change, are able to take a step back.
You focus on outcomes over processes, and coach your team to do the same.
You are someone who is inspired by, and seeks to embody our values.
You are humble, and you love learning new things and can mentor or coach others.
You have strong verbal and written communication skills in English.
🌈 What you’ll get from us
We believe people do their best work when they’re supported, trusted and inspired. Here’s how we build a world-class employee experience:
💸 Compensation
Competitive base salary, reviewed against benchmarks annually
Generous stock options - because we’re building this together
Bi-annual performance cycles with individual compensation reviews
🧠 Learning & Growth
Annual personal learning budget and access to training, coaching and mentorship
Time and space for growth - you set your development goals, we back them
🏡 Flexible Working
Hybrid working - 1 day per month in our London HQ
Budget to set up your home workspace
Regular in-person meetups, socials and offsites
🏖 Time Off
33 days holiday (25 days + public holidays)
Extra day off on your birthday (use it whenever you like!)
Company shutdown between Christmas and New Year
2 volunteering days each year to give back to causes that matter
👶 Family-first Policies
Industry leading paid primary and secondary caregiver leave
5 paid days for fertility treatments for those who need it
Private health insurance with AXA
Wellbeing perks via Happl (gym discounts, mental health support, and more)
🚲 Other Perks
Cycle to work scheme
4% employer pension contribution when you contribute 5% (UK)
A deeply human, radically transparent culture
❓Why Birdie?
Because you want to do meaningful work that improves lives - and grow at speed while doing it. We’re building more than a product - we’re building a movement. A movement to show that tech, when built with empathy and integrity, can change lives.
We’re a team of entrepreneurs, dreamers, and doers. Join us to shape the future of care, work alongside ambitious, kind people, and help reimagine how society cares for its older adults. We dream big, act fast, and work collaboratively with one goal in mind: to create a world where we all age with confidence.
⚖️ Equal Opportunities Statement
We’re committed to building a diverse team and inclusive culture. That means creating a hiring process that gives everyone a fair chance regardless of background, identity or lived experience.
Need adjustments or support during the application process? Let us know. We’re here to help.
✨ Ready to build the future of care?
Apply now. Be part of something that matters.