We're hiring an Engineering Manager to lead our frontend engineering organization - two development teams and a frontend QA team, totalling ~16 engineers. This is a people-first leadership role for someone with deep technical credibility: you'll spend approximately 60% of your time on people management (coaching, development, team building) and 40% on technical oversight (architecture, code reviews, technical strategy). You don't need to write production code daily, but you should be comfortable diving into technical discussions, reviewing complex pull requests, making informed architectural decisions, and debugging critical issues when needed. Hands-on coding ability is a strong plus. You'll own the evolution of our frontend platforms (React-based Rhino Play and Next.js-based Rhino Next) while building a culture of quality, velocity, and continuous improvement across all brands. Work Arrangement: Candidates based in Malta or Bitola will work in a hybrid arrangement. Remote candidates from other European locations are welcome and expected to work aligned with Central European Time (CET) You'll Be Responsible For People Leadership & Development (60%) - Lead, mentor, and develop ~12 frontend engineers and 4 frontend QA engineers across distributed locations (Malta, Bitola, and remote) - Conduct regular 1:1s, provide actionable feedback, and create personalized career development plans that help engineers reach their potential - Build a high-trust, high-performance culture where engineers feel challenged, supported, and excited to grow - Manage the frontend QA team, focusing on their professional development, test strategy, automation, and integration with development workflows - Own recruitment, onboarding, and retention for frontend and QA roles - Foster a culture aligned with Rhino's values: Community, Curiosity, and Achievers - Support diverse, dynamic teams and ensure fairness in career development opportunities Technical Strategy & Oversight (40%) - Shape the future of Rhino's frontend architecture in partnership with Product, Design, and Backend leadership - Make informed technical decisions on Next.js architecture, Server/Client Components, SSR strategies, and performance optimization - Review complex technical designs and pull requests; provide technical guidance and unblock challenging problems - Champion modern practices and tools: component libraries, Storybook, Redux Toolkit, Jest, service workers, CI/CD pipeline enhancements, performance monitoring - Ensure consistent approaches to authentication/authorization, session handling, and secure SSR patterns across brands - Guide decisions around build systems (Webpack, Turbopack, Turborepo) and monorepo architecture - Stay technically credible enough to earn respect from senior engineers and guide technical direction effectively - Debug complex frontend and server-side issues when your expertise is needed Delivery & Quality - Drive predictable delivery through clear goals, effective processes, and team rituals - Elevate code quality through strong review culture (acting as a gatekeeper when needed), testing standards, and automation - Partner with frontend QA team to strengthen test coverage (Jest, integration testing), reduce regressions, and increase release confidence - Oversee and optimize the release process to ensure smooth product deployments across all brands - Establish and track metrics that matter: team health, velocity trends, quality indicators, deployment frequency, and player-facing performance - Proactively identify patterns in production errors and drive systematic improvements Cross-Functional Collaboration - Translate product priorities into clear, achievable technical plans - Facilitate smooth collaboration between frontend, backend, design, product, and QA teams - Communicate technical tradeoffs, progress, and risks to both technical and non-technical stakeholders - Act as the voice of frontend engineering in leadership discussions - Bridge gaps and resolve blockers across teams

• Own execution for the Connect engineering team and deliver high quality connectors and platform improvements • Lead, coach and grow a team of 6 to 10 engineers while building a culture of ownership and continuous improvement • Work closely with product management and senior engineering leaders to contribute to roadmap planning and technical direction • Drive improvements in connector reliability, performance and operational excellence across cloud environments • Stay close to system design and architecture and step in hands on when needed to guide or unblock the team • Help evolve shared frameworks, tooling and development patterns so that building new connectors becomes faster and more consistent • Collaborate with SRE and support teams to improve observability, on call experience and overall operational health • Explore and introduce AI assisted engineering practices to improve developer productivity and workflows • Balance delivery of new features with investments in technical debt, scalability and long term maintainability

Company Description At S&W, we help our clients thrive by simplifying the complex, illuminating new paths, and shaping solutions that make a difference. As one of the UK’s top 10 fastest-growing accountancy firms, we have been a trusted partner since 1881—helping businesses and individuals meet challenges and seize opportunities across generations. Built on expertise and driven by ambition, we provide a comprehensive range of services, including tax and accountancy, advisory and assurance, corporate finance, and restructuring. We are defined by our purpose—to help navigate challenges, unlock potential, and achieve the extraordinary. S&W acquired ClearViewIP in September 2025 to complement the existing advisory services that S&W currently offers its clients including corporate finance, valuations, transaction services and forensic services, along with business tax, audit, consulting and business outsourcing services. The ClearViewIP team comprises experienced IP professionals, with decades of experience in managing, protecting and commercialising innovation and ensuring best practice IP approaches are deployed to help clients win in the market. Job Description We are transforming IP research workflows into an AI-first, scalable platform architecture. Our mission is to convert complex, knowledge-intensive IP workflows—prior art search, patent landscape analysis, FTO, competitive intelligence—into modular, explainable, enterprise-grade AI systems. The Head of Engineering will lead AI-driven digital transformation across our IP research operations. This role will own the engineering vision, architecture, and execution of intelligent IP workflows—translating deep domain expertise into robust, scalable, production-ready systems & processes. We are seeking a senior engineering leader to architect and execute the transition from expert-centric workflows to scalable, AI-native platforms. This role owns the engineering delivery of the next-generation IP intelligence systems—transforming prior art search, patent landscaping, Freedom-to-Operate (FTO), and technology benchmarking from manual, analyst-driven processes into robust, explainable, AI-first architectures. The role is based at our India office location. Skills & Experience • 12–15+ years in engineering leadership roles with platform ownership • Proven experience building and scaling AI/NLP-powered platforms • Background in IP analytics, legal tech, compliance, or other knowledge-intensive domains • Deep familiarity with patent data structures, citation networks, and IPC/CPC classifications (strongly preferred) • Expertise in LLMs, embeddings, vector databases, and RAG architectures for AI agents • Experience designing evaluation and quality measurement frameworks for AI systems • Strong background in semantic search and information retrieval • Experience operationalizing AI systems in secure, enterprise environments • Proven ability to design scalable systems handling large structured and unstructured datasets • Ability to operate at both strategic and execution levels. • Comfortable operating in ambiguity during frontier AI adoption • Product-oriented, outcome-driven approach to engineering leadership. • Comfort balancing rapid innovation with robustness, governance, and explainability. • Able to attract and mentor senior engineering talent Key Competencies • Customer focus –core to your role is to provide an excellent service to clients. • Judgement – the firm relies on your judgement in the services supplied to clients. This has to be delivered as per the client’s needs, technically excellent, commercial and on time. • Technical expertise – strong technical leadership and maintaining your technical competence is critical to ensuring clients receive an excellent service. • Networking – you are skilled at developing and growing relationships in the wider market and leveraging these to create opportunities for the business. • Communication – you communicate both verbally and in writing in an engaging and purposeful manner. • Leadership – you will help drive and lead a culture of continuous development, be able to identify future talent and act as mentor and sponsor. Qualifications • Educated to degree level or equivalent. • A relevant qualification (such as qualifications in IP) is desirable, although not essential. - Office Location: Homebased

This is a remote position. We are seeking a seasoned Engineering Manager who remains a technologist at heart. This is a "player-coach" role designed for a senior back-end engineer who has successfully transitioned into leadership without losing their technical edge. You should be someone who makes sound, high-stakes decisions quickly, acts as technical authority and understands that great software is built by people who truly care about the product’s mission. Key Responsibilities - Lead & Mentor: Manage a high-performing squad of engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and professional growth. - Architect & Execute: Leverage your deep Python expertise to guide architectural decisions and provide hands-on technical leadership on complex back-end challenges. - Product Ownership: Work closely with stakeholders to understand the "why" behind the "what," ensuring engineering efforts align with the broader business vision. What You Bring - Python Mastery: An extensive background in senior-level Python back-end engineering. You should still feel at home in a codebase and be hands-on. - Proven Leadership: Experience managing direct reports or mentoring engineering teams. - Senior Engineering Judgment: The ability to make fast, reliable decisions based on experience and technical maturity. Bonus Points For: - The Tech Stack: Hands-on experience with Django or FastAPI. - Ops Fluency: A background in Infrastructure and DevOps (AWS, CI/CD, K8s).