Engineering Manager

Salary: £120,000 - 130,000 per year

Requirements:

• Proven track record managing and developing software engineering teams
• Strong technical background in modern, cloud-native development
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure or GCP
• Experience with Agile and scalable engineering practices
• Familiarity with DevOps, microservices or data-driven architectures
• Experience leading geographically distributed or cross-functional teams
• Background in a high-growth, fast-paced environment
• Strong communication, conflict-resolution and organisational skills
• Ability to align team output with business goals while protecting solid technical foundations
• Experience with backend technologies such as Python, C# or Go, and frontend frameworks such as React or Angular

Responsibilities:

• Lead, coach and mentor software engineers across a range of experience levels
• Run 1:1s, performance reviews and career development planning
• Drive hiring, onboarding and retention
• Oversee architecture decisions and align them with long-term technical strategy
• Contribute hands-on through code reviews, design input and troubleshooting
• Partner with product to define roadmaps, scope projects and prioritise work
• Run sprint planning and delivery, track velocity and remove blockers
• Champion testing, CI/CD, monitoring and observability
• Guide incident response and root cause analysis
• Translate technical concepts into business impact, and business needs into technical direction
• Contribute to budgeting, resource planning and technology strategy

Technologies:

• AWS
• Azure
• Backend
• C#
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• CTO
• DevOps
• Frontend
• GCP
• Support
• Python
• React
• microservices
• Angular

More:

Were evolving our engineering organisation into a modern, high-performing and scalable team. As Software Engineering Manager, youll work between technology, strategy and leadership, shaping our technical culture and long-term technology vision in partnership with senior stakeholders and product leaders across an international organisation. This is a hands-on leadership role reporting to the CTO. The position is permanent and full-time, based in London with hybrid working, and offers a salary of £120,000–£130,000. Our cloud platforms include AWS, Azure or GCP. We offer the opportunity to shape a high-impact engineering organisation, a collaborative culture that encourages new ideas, competitive benefits and professional development support.

last updated 39 week of 2026