Growth Engineering Manager

Job Description

About Flash Pack:

When was the last time you made a new friend? The quality of your relationships is the single most important factor for your mental health. Travel has a unique ability to fast-forward the friendship-making process, which is why we’re on a mission to create one million meaningful friendships using the power of travel and technology as a platform for human connection.

We create curated social adventures for solo travellers in their 30s, 40s and 50s. Since launching in 2014, we’ve seen impressive year-on-year growth and become the category leader in a thriving, rapidly expanding market with the majority of our business now in the US.

We’re well-funded, we’ve shaken up an outdated industry, and we see ourselves as a friendship company far more than a travel company. Our culture is down-to-earth, hard-working and compassionate, built by exceptional people who care deeply about doing work we’re proud of.

You can find out more about our culture and life at Flash Pack here.

The Role:

We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Growth engineering work, supporting and coaching engineers while remaining hands-on as a player-coach. You’ll be working closely with Product and Marketing to shape, build, and learn from growth initiatives that drive acquisition, conversion, and retention.

You’ll help turn ideas into momentum: shaping experiments, shipping full-stack changes quickly, and using real customer behaviour to decide what to double down on or drop. You’ll write production code alongside the team while guiding technical direction, unblocking progress, and translating messy growth problems into focused, high-leverage work.

If you’re motivated by experimentation, measure success by outcomes rather than output, and enjoy balancing hands-on building with enabling others to do their best work, this role offers autonomy, fast feedback loops, and a direct connection between what you ship and how the business grows.

In line with our salary framework, the salary for this role is £90,000 to £110,000 p.a. depending on experience. We also offer stock options after your first year with the company.

Where you will spend your time:

• Build and ship growth features end-to-end as a hands-on contributor (roughly 50% of the role), primarily using React and TypeScript, alongside the team.

• Line-manage a small group of Growth Engineers, supporting delivery, coaching, and ongoing development through regular feedback and clear expectations.

• Lead the technical execution of growth initiatives: shaping experiments, scoping work, sequencing delivery, and keeping the team aligned on outcomes.

• Partner closely with Product, Marketing, and Design to turn growth hypotheses into shippable experiments and learn quickly from results.

• Set and uphold standards for code quality, experimentation, analytics, and maintainability across the growth codebase.

• Act as the connective tissue for the team: removing blockers, resolving trade-offs, and ensuring knowledge, ownership, and context are shared rather than siloed.

What we'd love to see from you:

• Hands-on engineering background, with experience line-managing engineers or a strong desire to move into a player-coach role.

• Strong technical judgement across a modern web stack, with the ability to contribute production code, review critically, and guide technical trade-offs.

• Comfort translating ambiguous growth problems into focused execution, aligning engineers and non-technical partners around clear outcomes.

• Proven ability to support and develop engineers, through regular 1:1s, feedback, coaching, and setting clear expectations.

• Product and impact-minded, with a desire to influence what gets built — not just how — while encouraging the same mindset in others.

• Calm, empathetic, and direct communicator, able to build trust across engineering, product, marketing, and design.

• (Optional) Experience leading growth-oriented work, including experimentation, measurement, and AB testing is a bonus.

Interview Process 🛠️:

Our interviews take place on Google Meet and usually consist of the following stages:

• Introductory chat with our talent team to see if there is a match between your skills and values and that of Flash Pack (30-45 mins)

• A competency and skills-based interview with the hiring manager and a key stakeholder to hear more about your background and experience and to give you a deep dive into the role (45-60 mins)

• A take-home task relating to the role with the hiring manager and a key stakeholder to see how you’d solve a problem and present this back to the team (~60 mins)

• Meet with one of our founders for any final questions you or we have (45-60 mins)

Benefits, Perks and Ways of working

🌎 Diverse and Inclusive Team: We are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all employees feel supported, respected, and empowered to reach their full potential.

💰 Competitive salaries, Pay transparency, Growth opportunities: Our progression, levelling and compensation framework is designed to offer career path progression opportunities for both individual contributor and manager tracks. Pay is completely transparent.

🕰 Generous Matched Pension: Flash Pack contributes up to 5% in the UK pension scheme. We're committed to helping you plan for retirement and achieve financial security.

📈 Stock Options: We believe that everyone should share in the success of Flash Pack as we grow. As a contributor to that success, stock options are available after your first year of employment.

🌴 Generous Annual Leave and Flexible Bank Holidays: Enjoy 25 days of annual leave and Bank Holidays to rest, recharge, and explore. ➕ We close between Christmas and New Year. ➕ If you celebrate different holidays you can always trade them out! ➕ You’ll enjoy an additional day off for your birthday. ➕ You’ll earn an additional day for each year at Flash Pack, up to 5 days accrued.

👪 Enhanced Parental Leave: No matter how your family gets started, we are here to celebrate and support by offering enhanced and inclusive parental leave. If you’re the primary caregiver you’re supported by 16 weeks full pay. If you’re the secondary caregiver you’re supported by 4 weeks full pay.

❤️‍🩹 Life-Change Care Plans: We are aware that there are life changes that affect us all. Our Care Plans focus on personalised accommodations, flexibility and understanding in order to provide the right level of support for each individual.

🧠 Unlimited Mental Health and Wellbeing Support: Your mental health and wellbeing matter to us. Access to therapy and counselling services through Oliva is available to ensure you feel supported and empowered to thrive.

💻 Remote-Flexible Workplace: We are a remote-flexible company. Whether you prefer the comfort of your home, a cozy cafe, or a beachside retreat, you'll have the flexibility to work where you're most productive - so long as you have lightning-fast WiFi access. You should be available to meet every 6-8 weeks in our central London office.

⚡️ Flexible Work Hours: We know everyone works better at different times. You are free to work when you are most productive as long as you fulfil your responsibilities and are available for at least 3 hours of overlap per day with your team. (Some teams vary based on nature of the role)

✈️ Work from Abroad: Expand your horizons with the opportunity to work from abroad 45 days throughout the year.

🥳 Socials and Company-wide Events: Our culture of connecting is key in a remote-flexible environment. From team outings to company-wide events, we believe in nurturing strong bonds and creating memorable experiences together.

🖥️ Home Office Budget: We provide each employee with a budget of up to £300 (or the local equivalent) to purchase your own choice of home office equipment, as deemed necessary.

🤗 Refer a friend or family member: If you help us fill one of our positions and they pass their probation you will get a £1000 bonus!!

Diversity and Inclusion

We’re led by a BAME, female CEO and building a diverse and inclusive team is incredibly important to us which is why we are building diversity and inclusion into the company hiring, performance and progression framework.

We see our diversity as a key competitive advantage which is why we are committed to hiring top talent regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age or status as an individual with a disability.

If you have an additional accessibility or other requirement we haven’t considered, we will do our best to adapt and make sure your needs are met. Once you apply, you will be sent a short Equality, Diversity & Inclusion survey, it would help us immensely if you can complete it.

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