Senior Engineering Manager

Engineering has changed, and we're changing with it. We're looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead multiple teams into AI-native, agentic software delivery — building products used by thousands of eCommerce merchants worldwide. We're not hiring for where engineering was.

We're hiring for where it's going. your impact You'll lead several engineering teams and their managers, and shape how we build software as AI reshapes the craft. From spec to delivery, you'll move us toward agentic and multi-agent workflows — with the quality, security and cost controls to back them up.

We build on and around Shopify, which moves just as fast, so staying current isn't a nice-to-have here. It's the job. You'll work from our Leicester city centre office three days a week, with two days remote

What you'll do

Lead and grow multiple engineering teams and their managers, building a culture of continuous learning and technical excellence. Set long-term technical strategy with the architecture team and senior leadership, so engineering moves in step with company goals. Own roadmaps for complex, distributed, high-traffic systems — with resilience, observability and performance built in at scale.

Raise AI maturity across your teams against our maturity model, moving from prompt, context and harness practices to agentic loops and multi-agent workflows. Keep building with new tools yourself so you stay sharp. Drive adoption of our AI development standards, including quality controls for AI-generated code.