Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager – £100,000–£110,000 – Fully Remote UK

A high-impact Engineering Manager hire inside a technology business undergoing a major platform transformation.

This is a rare opportunity to lead teams modernising a large, mission-critical product while helping shape the future architecture, platform strategy and engineering culture.

Join a high-performance technology company building complex, real-time platforms used globally at significant scale.

The product is widely adopted and commercially critical, but the engineering organisation is now investing heavily to modernise architecture, raise standards and accelerate delivery.

You’ll step into a deeply technical environment spanning distributed systems, evolving microservices and large-scale platform change.

This is a leadership role where you shape both people and platform.

The Opportunity

About the Role

• Manage and mentor engineers across seniority levels
• Drive planning, delivery and technical direction
• Partner closely with product and senior technical leadership
• Improve engineering processes, quality and developer velocity
• Stay technically credible through design input, PR reviews and guidance
• Help define future technology and architecture direction

You’ll own outcomes, team health and technical standards.

What You’ll Be Working On

• Modernising legacy services into scalable cloud platforms
• Performance, scalability and reliability improvements
• Platform evolution and roadmap planning
• Hiring and growing strong engineering teams

Skills and Experience

• Experience leading engineering teams building high‑scale backend products
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and modern architecture
• Comfortable operating through ambiguity and change
• Strong communicator aligning engineering and product

Nice to have

• Exposure to platform modernisation or large technical transformation
• Background in SaaS or complex product environments

Location: Fully Remote UK

Team: High standards, collaborative, delivery focused

If you enjoy leading strong engineers while shaping complex systems operating at scale, this is a role worth exploring.

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