Engineering Manager

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Permanent contract
London
No remote work
Salary: £100K to 110K
Skills & expertise
Career management
Ruby

Trainline
Trainline

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We are champions of rail, inspired to build a greener, more sustainable future of travel. Trainline enables millions of travellers to find and book the best value tickets across carriers, fares, and journey options through our highly rated mobile app, website, and B2B partner channels. 

Great journeys start with Trainline 🚄 

Now Europe’s number 1 downloaded rail app, with over 125 million monthly visits and £5.9 billion in annual ticket sales, we collaborate with 270+ rail and coach companies in over 40 countries. We want to create a world where travel is as simple, seamless, eco-friendly and affordable as it should be. 

Today, we're a FTSE 250 company driven by our incredible team of over 1,000 Trainliners from 50+ nationalities, based across London, Paris, Barcelona, Milan, Edinburgh and Madrid. With our focus on growth in the UK and Europe, now is the perfect time to join us on this high-speed journey. 

Introducing the Engineering Team at Trainline👋

You’ll be leading Supplime — a team of 11 .NET and Ruby engineers, and one of the driving forces behind one of Trainline’s most exciting initiatives. The Supply 2.0 programme is focused on removing scaling limitations in our current Supply stack to unlock Trainline’s next phase of growth. The team’s mission is to make our systems more scalable, resilient, and easier to evolve — enabling us to onboard new integrations faster, serve growing volumes of customer traffic, and maintain our codebases with confidence. It’s a fantastic opportunity to shape a platform that underpins Trainline’s future scaling ambitions and build something our engineers can truly be proud of.

As and Engineering Manager at Trainline you will...🚄

  • Be the manager for your team, constantly supporting them with their career development through coaching and performance management, ensuring they are all engaged and understand how their work contributes to the wider Trainline strategy

  • Engage in technical deliverables, such as features, application monitoring, and bug fixing - although spending less time writing code than engineers

  • Manage hiring, interviews, and onboarding of any new team members

  • Be responsible for identifying bottlenecks in the process and roadblocks to success for your team and clearing these to ensure this success

  • Work with Product to pick the high-value projects to work on and keep your team focused on these projects

  • Own the team’s technical roadmap, negotiate with Product Managers to ensure technical projects are prioritised alongside product features

  • Work with Product to manage project scope, ensure the technical deliverables are met, and communicate delivery progress clearly and frequently to all stakeholders

  • Identify areas of improvement such as strategic tech debt, and more advanced/efficient technologies that will underpin Trainline growth plans

We'd love to hear from you if you...🔍

  • Are a team leader with proven line management experience delivering complex projects successfully

  • Love developing people and have experience growing engineering teams

  • Can inspire your direct reports and create a strong trust-based relationship with them

  • Thrive in a diverse, open, and collaborative environment

  • Have great communication skills

  • Are proactive, focused, supportive, honest, and a team player

  • Have a passion to learn new skills

  • Are a problem solver who can apply their skills to technical issues

  • Advocate for the use of Agile development practices

  • Advocate for best testing practices

More information:

Enjoy fantastic perks like private healthcare & dental insurance, a generous work from abroad policy, 2-for-1 share purchase plans, an EV Scheme to further reduce carbon emissions, extra festive time off, and excellent family-friendly benefits. 

We prioritise career growth with clear career paths, transparent pay bands, personal learning budgets, and regular learning days. Jump on board and supercharge your career from day one! 

Our values represent the things that matter most to us and what we live and breathe everyday, in everything we do: 

  • 💭 Think Big - We're building the future of rail 

  • ✔️ Own It - We focus on every customer, partner and journey 

  • 🤝  Travel Together - We're one team 

  • ♻️ Do Good - We make a positive impact 

We know that having a diverse team makes us better and helps us succeed. And we mean all forms of diversity - gender, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, nationality and diversity of thought. That's why we're committed to creating inclusive places to work, where everyone belongs and differences are valued and celebrated.

Interested in finding out more about what it's like to work at Trainline? Why not check us out on LinkedIn, Instagram and Glassdoor

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