Engineering Manager

Stora is building the operating platform for modern self-storage businesses.

Our software helps operators manage bookings, payments, customers, facilities and day-to-day operations from one place, while automating much of the work that traditionally makes running a self-storage business unnecessarily complicated.

In just over five years, Stora has grown from an early-stage product into a platform used by more than 500 operators.

We’re a product-led, remote-first company with an experienced engineering team and ambitious plans for what comes next.

Now, as the engineering organisation grows, we’re hiring an Engineering Manager to make sure the way we lead, develop and support engineers grows with it.

This is a genuine people leadership role.

You’ll manage approximately 12 engineers working across three product teams, with the team expected to continue growing.

Each product team has a Tech Lead responsible for technical direction, alongside Product and Design. Your focus is different: the engineers themselves.

This isn’t a role for somebody looking to move away from engineering completely, though. You’ll need enough technical depth to understand the work, follow engineering discussions and ask good questions without needing to be the person making every technical decision.

You’ll work closely with our Head of Engineering and have support from People, but you’ll have meaningful autonomy to improve how engineering management works at Stora.

Engineering Management

Performance & Progression

Hiring & Team Development

Team Health

Technical Context

After your first year, we’d expect:

We’re looking for an experienced Engineering Manager, rather than somebody taking their first step into management.

Experience with Ruby or Rails would be useful, but it isn’t essential.

We’re much more interested in whether you can lead engineers well.

What This Role Isn’t

It’s worth being clear that this isn’t:

Technical leadership already exists within the product teams.

We’re hiring you because engineering management itself deserves dedicated ownership.

Our Technology

You won’t be expected to spend most of your time writing production code, but you should be comfortable working around our stack.

Backend: Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis, Sidekiq, TimescaleDB

Frontend: Turbo, React, ViewComponents, Sass

Testing: Minitest, Playwright

Deployment: GitHub Actions, Heroku

Our Hiring Process

We’re reviewing applications as they arrive rather than waiting for a closing date.

If your experience looks like a strong match, we’ll explain the process clearly from the outset and move quickly.

Equal Opportunities at Stora

Stora is an equal opportunities employer.c

We want to build a workplace where people are treated fairly, with dignity and respect, and where different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives are valued.

We welcome applications from suitably qualified candidates regardless of age, disability, gender, gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religious belief or political opinion, or sexual orientation.

Recruitment and employment decisions are based on merit, competence and business need, and we promote equality of opportunity and fair participation in line with our responsibilities under Northern Ireland equality legislation.

If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.