Engineering Manager - London

Back to jobsEngineering Manager - LondonLondon, United KingdomApplyAbout InstaLILY InstaLILY is an AI products and infrastructure company that puts execution at the frontier of enterprise AI. That work begins with Lily™, the world's first AI Forward Deployed Engineer, which learns how a business works, builds the software it needs, and goes live in days. It does not leave when the work ships; it stays and keeps the software working as the business changes. Lily runs wherever the work happens, in the cloud, on-premise, or at the edge, through InstaLILY's Small Data Center, built with NVIDIA technology. Founded in 2023 by Amit Shah and Sumantro Das, InstaLILY has raised nearly $100 million from Energize Capital, Insight Partners, and Home Depot Ventures. Headquartered in New York, with offices in San Francisco, London, and Toronto, InstaLILY serves leading companies across construction, industrial distribution, logistics, healthcare, and other operationally intensive industries. Learn more at https://instalily.ai/. The Traction Revenue grew 5x over the past year, and Lily has driven over $200M in new annual sales for a single customer. We serve some of the largest operators in our industries, including SRS Distribution (part of The Home Depot family), United Rentals, and Henry Schein, and we work closely with the Google DeepMind and NVIDIA ecosystems. How We Work We work in small teams with real ownership: clear problems, direct access to the customers whose work you're changing, and room to ship. Your code runs in live production systems inside billion-dollar operations, so you see your impact directly. People who do well here want that proximity to the work. We're growing fast, and the people who join now shape what this company becomes. Everything runs on three principles: Customers, Culture, and Code.About the Role As the founding Engineering Manager for the London office, you will also be the sole Lead Engineer in the UK, leading the technical direction and a team of engineers building and shipping the AI agent platform that runs inside our enterprise customers' workflows. We're now building out our London engineering and sales hub, bringing New York AI energy to your city, and it's going to be electric. You'll partner closely with Engineering, Product, and Growth to set direction, deliver on the roadmap, and grow the people on your team. You'll own a meaningful surface of the product, from architecture decisions to release quality to the careers of the engineers building it. This is a player-coach role. We're at the stage where the best managers still read PRs, jump into hard problems, and have opinions about system design. You won't be writing code full-time, but you'll be technically deep enough that your team trusts your judgment on the hard calls. This role is client-facing. You'll be in working sessions with enterprise stakeholders alongside your engineers, running technical discovery, defending architecture, and translating customer needs into a roadmap your team can execute. The best managers here can walk a Fortune 500 VP through a system design in the morning and run a thoughtful 1:1 with a struggling engineer in the afternoon. Responsibilities People Manage, coach, and grow a team of 6–10 engineers across levels: set clear expectations, run effective 1:1s, give honest feedback, and develop careers Communicate and work closely with the New York based Lead Engineers and VP of Engineering Own performance management end-to-end: hiring, leveling, ramp, promotions, and the hard conversations when they come Build a low-ego, high-bar engineering culture that mirrors the broader Instalily team: sharp, curious, customer-obsessed Be a multiplier: your team should ship more and better because you're there Delivery Own delivery for a meaningful product surface; partner with Product to scope, sequence, and ship Drive operational excellence: incident response, on-call rotation, code review standards,...