About Noon

Noon's mission is to radically change the way people learn, with a primary focus on the Middle East, where the company has its roots and where the need and urgency to improve education are highest.

We have taught over 12 million students successfully with our remote learning products. Our next big challenge is to build a network of schools, supported by top teachers and driven by technology and innovation, to positively impact even more lives.

Why work at Noon?

• The opportunity to have a real impact on millions of students.

• A strong leadership and engineering team to learn from.

• A solid runway: we recently closed our Series B and have substantial recurring revenue.

• We're building a new operating system for learning. If you're a builder who wants to solve hard problems in education—and create something students talk about 10 years later—we want to talk to you.

About the role:

As an Engineering Manager at Noon, you’ll combine technical leadership with hands-on impact. You’ll actively contribute to system design, development, architecture, code reviews, and feature development while also mentoring engineers, driving execution, and shaping team culture. This is a hands-on leadership role, ideal for someone who wants to stay technically sharp while amplifying their impact through others. We believe the best engineering leaders stay close to the code and we’re looking for someone who enjoys rolling up their sleeves, stays close to the technical details, and leads by example. You’ll have full autonomy while owning one of our products.

This is a hybrid position based in our central London office, where the core of our tech and product teams is located. You’ll be expected to come join us in person twice a week. 

Responsibilities:

• Manage highly talented professionals, mainly consisting of backend, frontend, and infrastructure, but not limited to

• Scale impact through hiring, shaping the future of the team, and raising the technical bar

• Contribute to product strategy, setting team-level OKRs, and tracking progress and accountability

• Grow a diverse, highly skilled, and motivated team of engineers

• Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and knowledge sharing

• Play a key role in improving and implementing processes and values

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product, design, operations, and learning teams

• Contribute hands-on code to non-blocking features and technical debt to alleviate team workload when needed

• Maintain technical context and aid delivery by picking up lower-urgency tickets, PR reviews and/or data analysis, ensuring the core team remains focused on the critical path

• Support the team’s momentum by rolling up your sleeves to handle non-critical path coding tasks, bug fixes, PR reviews, or data analysis

Requirements

• 2 years of experience as a people manager, with a desire to learn, improve, and jell with the team and successfully lead, manage, and coaching a team in a high-growth tech/product company.

• Strong technical skills, architectural knowledge, problem-solving abilities, and experience setting strategic direction.

• Hands-on experience with React Native and React Web for Frontend, and Java and Springboot for Backend

• A passion for mentoring and supporting the career development of engineers.

• Experience building cross-functional teams, including recruiting, promoting, and onboarding

Benefits

In addition to a competitive base salary, we offer:

• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)

• Performance-based bonus

• 25 days annual leave and Christmas office closure days on top

• 5% contribution to your Pension Scheme

• Private Medical Scheme including Family cover

• Income Protection and Life Assurance to help you to protect your future

About Diversity & Inclusion

We understand that everyone has a unique set of skills and experiences. If you’re passionate about making a real positive impact through education, even if you don’t meet all the requirements above, we encourage you to apply.

At Noon, we respect and value differences. We know that when people from different backgrounds and with different points of view work together, we create the most value – for our clients, our people, and society. We’re so lucky to live in a society where differences are celebrated, so we’d expect nothing less from our teams. That means whatever your race, religion, sexual orientation, or gender, this is a place to feel at home, express yourself freely, and make your mark. Noon is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of age, disability, gender identity, marital status, race, colour, ethnicity, religion, sex, national origin, or sexual orientation. We aim to be truly representative of the world and for each and every employee to feel respected.