Software Engineering Manager

Company: Yoh, A Day & Zimmermann Company
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Location: Southampton
Job Description:

This isn’t a role for someone who wants to stay hands-on in the code.

It’s for someone who knows how high-performance software gets built — and wants to lead the people and environment that make it happen.

You’d be leading a team of experienced software engineers working on real-time, high-throughput systems. The work sits at the intersection of software and hardware — performance-critical, complex, and very much R&D-led.

You won’t be writing the code.

You’ll be shaping how it gets written.

Why this role exists

The team is growing, and they need someone who can:

  • Bring structure to how software is designed, built and delivered
  • Support and develop strong technical leads
  • Ensure consistency, quality and pace across multiple workstreams

This is about methodology, delivery and people — not micromanaging engineers or owning technical decisions.

What you’ll be doing

  • Leading and developing a team of high-calibre software engineers
  • Working closely with technical leads who own the engineering direction
  • Shaping software engineering practices, workflows and delivery standards
  • Supporting the development of scalable, high-performance software across complex architectures
  • Driving delivery across the full product lifecycle
  • Acting as a bridge between engineering, customers and the wider business

What they’re looking for

  • Experience leading high-performing software teams
  • Background in embedded software, high-performance computing, or software closely coupled to hardware
  • Strong understanding of software development lifecycles, CI/CD and delivery frameworks
  • Ability to take abstract problems and turn them into structured, actionable plans
  • Comfortable operating in an R&D environment with evolving requirements

Experience in wireless communications is useful, but not essential — you’ll be working alongside specialists.

What this isn’t

  • Not a role for someone who wants to stay deeply technical day-to-day
  • Not a role for someone who needs full control over technical direction
  • Not a large corporate environment with layers of process and sign-off

Why it’s worth considering

  • Work alongside genuine subject matter experts in a highly specialised domain
  • Influence how complex, high-performance software is delivered
  • Small enough team to have impact, but established enough to have structure
  • Strong technical culture without unnecessary bureaucracy

If you want to lead high-end engineering teams without stepping away from the detail entirely — but also without being buried in it — this is worth a conversation.

Click apply or get in contact with me directly for more information.

Yoh Solutions Ltd, a Day and Zimmerman Company, are Electronic Engineering and Development recruitment specialists, sourcing high-calibre permanent and interim engineering experts across the globe.

To gain access to my network and vacancies, feel free to connect with me by searching ‘Thomas Bird’ on LinkedIn.

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Posted: May 9th, 2026