Engineering Manager (Remote)

Engineering Manager

Company Overview

Who is Bridebook anyway? 💙Bridebook is a SaaS and Marketplace scale-up business revolutionising the wedding industry. We are proud to be the UK’s number one wedding planning app and the ONLY global provider! Our mission is to make the wedding planning journey as happy as possible for engaged couples everywhere!With over 90% of the world’s 7.5bn population expected to get married in their lifetime, the wedding industry is massive. It is 50% larger than the global taxi and food delivery markets combined, yet it sadly lags in digitalisation and lacks solutions for the modern-day needs of both couples and businesses.So here's Bridebook, set to disrupt the wedding industry🎉Our innovative platform is designed to make wedding planning effortless and stress-free. From personalised wedding checklists, budget management tools, a vast selection of venues and suppliers, and endless inspiration – you can access it all at your fingertips, on your mobile device! After recently becoming the first app of its kind to launch globally, Bridebook now enables couples to plan destination weddings anywhere in the world. This exciting expansion makes it a truly fantastic time to join us on our journey!Our team is made up of talented creative, analytical, and tech-focused minds! We’ve collaborated with some fantastic partners including the Natural History Museum, Hilton, the Ritz, Etsy and Jimmy Choo, and have been featured 12 times on the App Store as well as been rated the number 1 app by Apple. Our investors are well known for supporting some previous successful unicorns such as Airbnb, Pinterest, Skyscanner and Tesla.Bridebook is the leading wedding planning app and website, created to save couples from endless spreadsheets, folders bursting with brochures and, probably, parental interference. You’re welcome.The state-of-the-art wedding planning toolkit allows couples to plan their whole wedding from any device, anytime, anywhere, together, all in one place. Whether it is shortlisting florists, juggling your guestlist, handling RSVPs, managing quotes and balancing your budget, Bridebook is your trusty wedding planning sidekick and the long awaited update to the industry. Welcome to the world wide wed.Bridebook also has leading experts on hand, from beauty guru Bobbi Brown, to advise on your wedding look, to Britain's favourite baker, Mary Berry, who has your wedding cake questions dusted. The UK's top wedding providers also impart their wisdom - think George Clooney's wedding stationer, Kate Moss’s wedding florist, Kate Middleton’s wedding hair stylist.The wedding 'dashboard'​ gives real-time updates and guidance on the planning progress and what to tackle next, who should pay for what, and how to delegate to the unsuspecting bridal party. The Bridebook budget guide is an industry first, based on the budget analysis of thousands of previous weddings, guiding couples as to how to make the most of their budget. Bridebook will soon even allow multiple logins with restricted view, so family and friends can be kept informed and at bay in equal measure!

Job Summary

What will I be doing? 👩 💻👨 💻We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead and grow a high-performing engineering team while delivering meaningful product outcomes that drive value for our customers and business. You will play a critical role in shaping how we build, scale, and operate our technology platform, working closely with Product and Technical leadership to ensure we deliver with quality, speed, and confidence.This role combines people leadership, delivery ownership, and technical stewardship. You’ll create an environment where engineers can thrive, continuously improve how we work, and ensure our platform remains scalable, reliable, and fit for the future as Bridebook continues to grow globally.

Key Responsibilities

• Leading and developing a high-performing engineering team: Providing coaching, mentorship, and clear expectations to support career growth, engagement, and retention while fostering a collaborative, psychologically safe team culture.
• Driving predictable, valuable delivery: Partnering closely with Product to plan and prioritise work, ensuring initiatives are well-scoped and delivered in small, valuable increments that balance speed with long-term quality.
• Owning team processes and continuous improvement: Establishing and evolving delivery rituals, engineering practices, and feedback loops that improve throughput, reliability, and team effectiveness over time.
• Raising engineering quality and operational excellence: Setting standards across testing, code review, CI/CD, and release management while coaching engineers to strengthen technical practices and reduce repeat issues.
• Supporting platform architecture and scalability: Collaborating with the Technical Architect to guide technical decisions, manage technical debt, and evolve our platform across our stack (Typescript, React, NextJS, AWS, GCS, Firebase/Firestore).
• Aligning stakeholders and communicating clearly: Translating technology priorities into clear trade-offs and plans, ensuring leadership understands the state of engineering and is aligned on key decisions and investments.

Requirements / Qualifications

• Has strong experience leading and developing software engineers, ideally within a fast-paced product or start-up/scale-up environment.
• Demonstrates excellent people leadership skills, including coaching, performance management, and creating high-engagement team cultures.
• Has a proven track record of delivering complex software projects in collaboration with Product teams, balancing delivery speed with technical quality.
• Brings solid technical credibility, with experience working across modern web technologies and cloud platforms, and the ability to contribute to architectural discussions.
• Understands and applies modern engineering practices such as CI/CD, automated testing, and iterative delivery.
• Is highly collaborative and able to influence stakeholders across technical and non-technical teams, including senior leadership.
• Is pragmatic and outcome-focused, capable of making thoughtful trade-offs between short-term delivery and long-term sustainability.
• Communicates clearly and confidently, particularly when navigating ambiguity, incidents, or complex decisions.

Preferred Qualifications

What if you’re a partial fit?🌱We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the wedding industry and welcome candidates with different backgrounds and experiences! We prioritise grit, positivity, and the willingness to get stuck in, and encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn’t exactly match this job description.

Location

Fully Remote - Europe.

Employment Type

Please note we can only offer contracts to those based in Europe as a full time contractor.

Application Process

So what’s next? 🕓You’ll hear from our team within 2 weeks regarding your application. We believe in efficient and meaningful conversations, so you’ll be happy to hear there isn’t a whopping 7 stage process!That's all for now - see you on the dancefloor! 🕺💃

Equal Opportunity Statement

Equal employment opportunity 🌈Research shows that women, neurodiverse individuals, and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, in fact, they often do! At Bridebook we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.