Engineering Manager
Software Engineering Manager
London (Hybrid) | Permanent, Full-time | Reports to the CTO
Salary: £120,000 - £130,000
The role
Our client is evolving its engineering organisation into a modern, high-performing, scalable team, and needs an Engineering Manager to lead that shift. You'll sit between technology, strategy and leadership: setting the technical culture, building the capabilities the team needs, and embedding engineering best practices across the business.
This is a hands-on leadership role. You'll work with senior stakeholders and product leaders across an international organisation to shape a long-term technology vision, while coaching engineers and setting the standard for how software gets built.
Tech stack
Backend: Python, C# or Go
Frontend: React or Angular
Cloud: AWS, Azure or GCP
What you'll do
What you'll bring
What's on offer
London (Hybrid) | Permanent, Full-time | Reports to the CTO
Salary: £120,000 - £130,000
The role
Our client is evolving its engineering organisation into a modern, high-performing, scalable team, and needs an Engineering Manager to lead that shift. You'll sit between technology, strategy and leadership: setting the technical culture, building the capabilities the team needs, and embedding engineering best practices across the business.
This is a hands-on leadership role. You'll work with senior stakeholders and product leaders across an international organisation to shape a long-term technology vision, while coaching engineers and setting the standard for how software gets built.
Tech stack
Backend: Python, C# or Go
Frontend: React or Angular
Cloud: AWS, Azure or GCP
What you'll do
- 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 keep them aligned with long-term technical strategy
- Stay hands-on where it counts: code reviews, design input, 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 the reverse
- Contribute to budgeting, resource planning and technology strategy
What you'll bring
- 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
What's on offer
- The chance to build and shape a high-impact engineering organisation
- A collaborative culture where new ideas are encouraged
- Competitive salary, benefits and professional development support