Software Development Manager

Salary: £80,000 - 110,000 per year

Requirements:

• Proven experience leading software engineering teams.
• Strong software development background, ideally with hands-on experience in Golang and modern web technologies.
• Experience building and deploying applications on AWS.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, cloud-native development and engineering best practices.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to bridge technical and business priorities.
• A passion for coaching, mentoring and developing engineering talent.
• Experience designing scalable, distributed applications and working within modern Agile development environments would be highly beneficial.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and deliver our software development strategy, balancing technical leadership with people management.
• Manage, mentor and grow our team of software engineers.
• Drive best practices across software engineering, architecture, code quality and delivery.
• Work closely with stakeholders across the business to ensure technology supports commercial objectives.
• Champion innovation, continuous improvement and R&D initiatives.
• Help shape our future engineering function, including recruitment, team expansion and development processes.
• Combine strategic thinking with hands-on technical leadership as part of our senior leadership team.
• Support the growth of the team as the business continues to scale.

Technologies:

• AWS
• Cloud
• Golang
• Support
• React
• TypeScript
• Web

More:

We are an ambitious and growing technology company based in Greater Manchester, offering a competitive salary, flexible and hybrid working, and the opportunity to influence technology strategy in a growing business. We are looking for a hands-on Software Development Manager to help shape our technology roadmap, strengthen our engineering team, and play a key role in driving technical excellence and business growth. Our technical environment includes Golang, AWS, React, and TypeScript.

last updated 31 week of 2026