Software Engineering Manager / Team Lead

Salary: £95,000 - 95,000 per year

Requirements:

• Experience leading multi-disciplinary Agile, product engineering teams delivering complex, maintainable and commercially valuable software solutions
• Hands-on engineering background, ideally with C# .Net, and experience across the full software development lifecycle
• Good understanding of modern software engineering principles, including maintainable architecture, automated testing, CI/CD, secure-by-design practices, observability and reliability
• Experience growing teams and leading transformation initiatives across engineering effectiveness, Agile or flow-based delivery, people development, cloud/SaaS adoption, DevSecOps and technology modernisation
• Strong leadership skills, with an enthusiastic, motivational, proactive, decisive, collaborative and inclusive approach
• Ability to use engineering metrics thoughtfully to improve delivery flow, quality, reliability, developer experience and team health without unnecessary measurement overhead

Responsibilities:

• Lead highly skilled, multi-disciplinary teams delivering insurance and reserving solutions used by customers globally
• Create the environment for teams to deliver secure, reliable and scalable software
• Continuously improve engineering effectiveness, developer experience and ways of working
• Lead the development, release and continuous improvement of products
• Collaborate closely with Architects, Senior Engineers, Product, Platform, Security and Operations to shape robust technical solutions and support the evolution to cloud and SaaS
• Use engineering, quality, reliability and customer metrics to improve delivery flow, identify bottlenecks and drive continuous improvement
• Build high performing, inclusive teams by recruiting and developing engineers, coaching technical leaders, supporting career progression and evolving team structures and operating models
• Champion modern engineering practices including automation, DevSecOps, secure development and responsible AI assisted software delivery
• Improve developer experience through better tooling, documentation, reusable patterns and self-service practices

Technologies:

• AI
• C#
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevSecOps
• Flow
• Support
• Security
• ASP.NET
• Azure

More:

We are a global InsurTech business delivering market leading insurance and reserving solutions used by customers globally. This is a broad engineering leadership role with technical credibility, people management and operational leadership, based in Reigate with a flexible hybrid working model. You will work in the office twice a week for team meet-ups and stakeholder meetings, with the other three days working from home. We offer a range of perks and benefits including up to £95k salary plus bonus, enhanced parental leave, 25 days holiday plus buy days and your birthday off, pension up to 10% contribution, health care and life assurance, training and career development, social events and other perks.

last updated 39 week of 2026