Lottie

Care sector

EngineeringManager-AIAgents

£95–125k London, United Kingdom FULL TIME Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Engineering Manager - AI Agents at Lottie. Skills: AI Agents, LLMs, product ownership, technical leadership. Owning the technical roadmap for Eliza and our AI agents product line. Coding alongside the team”

What You'll Achieve.

reduce missed calls from 53% to 0%; build her; own the Eliza product line; turning it into a category-defining AI product; build and lead a small team of product engineers; deliver more impact; holding a high bar on both speed and quality; deepening Eliza's integration with Found; scaling a live voice agent; scope discipline is as important as capability; measuring and continuously improving response quality, accuracy, and emotional tone at scale; managing LLM economics; responsible automation; expanding beyond voice into live chat and email enquiry handling; provide clarity and make things happen; focus on impact; decreasing the cost of change; shipping MVPs, then iterating based on real usage

Industry & Context.

Care sector
Problems you'll solve

Building Eliza taught us that great AI agents in sensitive, human contexts are harder than they look

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

7+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, leading technical decisions, mentoring engineers, experience across the stack, real experience building with LLMs, prompt engineering, eval frameworks, observability, extremely product-minded, comfortable shipping MVPs, then iterating based on real usage, Claude Code and AI-assisted workflows, built something from 0 to 1, worked in cross-functional teams

Nice to Have

experience with TypeScript

What You'll Do.

Owning the technical roadmap for Eliza and our AI agents product line

Coding alongside the team

Building and line managing a team of product engineers

Deepening Eliza's integration with Found: real-time availability

Scaling a live voice agent that handles real enquiries

Deciding what Eliza won't do

Measuring and continuously improving response quality

and emotional tone at scale

Managing LLM economics

Ensuring responsible automation

Expanding beyond voice into live chat and email enquiry handling

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

work at the intersection of product and engineering; work in cross-functional teams

Communication Scope

Sharing the product hat with our GM, supported by our CPTO

Process & Methodology

Owning the technical roadmap, technical decisions

Full Job Description

🏷️ Title: Engineering Manager 👫 Department: Engineering - reporting to the CPTO 💰 Salary: £95,000 - £125,000 (depending on experience and seniority) 🎁 Benefits & Culture: Lottie’s careers page here https://careers.lottie.org/, Lottie’s tech careers page here https://lottiehq.notion.site/join-lottie-tech. 🎥 Hear from our CTO here https://supercut.ai/share/lottie/XLE4mAFU4nvQUJLLQLoe8V. Meet Eliza here http://youtube.com/watch?v=j85LK01G2_w&feature=youtu.be. 📈 Equity: A very generous EMI share offering. 🌴 https://emojipedia.org/palm-tree Holiday: 26 days + bank holidays. 💗 https://emojipedia.org/growing-heart Mission: Elevate later life for everybody and build the care sector of the future. 💻 Office Policy: Hybrid (two days in office). 🌍 Office Location: London Bridge, London, UK.   🔍 https://emojipedia.org/magnifying-glass-tilted-left The Opportunity: We built the first version of Eliza — our AI Enquiry Handler for care providers — and she's live. In 50 pilot care homes, she's already reduced missed calls from 53% to 0%. The concept is proven. Now we need someone to really build her. We're looking for a hands-on engineering leader to own the Eliza product line from here — taking a live prototype and turning it into a category-defining AI product. You'll own the technical roadmap, build and lead a small team of product engineers, and work at the intersection of product and engineering. You'll report to the CPTO with a dotted line to the GM for product direction. There's a live product and real users, which means real learnings and real pressure to get things right. But this is still very much a founding role — the foundation is there, and almost everything else is still to be built: deeper integrations with Found, live chat, email, observability at scale, and more. You'll be shaping what Eliza becomes.   💻 What does this role involve? - Owning the technical roadmap for Eliza and our AI agents product line - Coding alongside the team — this is a hands-on le

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