Head of Engineering, Manchester, £100,000 – £115,000 + Share Options Join a fast-growing SaaS business at the forefront of their sector, building innovative products that help global organisations. The company combines domain expertise, data and modern cloud technology, used by enterprise customers worldwide. With strong growth, a collaborative engineering culture and a genuine focus on innovation, this is an opportunity to shape both technology strategy and team development in a high-impact environment.
As a Head of Software Engineering you’ll lead a team of Software Engineers (functional programming – Java, Scala, Python) and DevSecOps specialists, balancing people leadership with technical direction across a modern microservices platform running in AWS and Kubernetes – remaining hands-on with architectural decisions.
Leading, mentoring and developing engineering teams (functional programming) Driving architecture, engineering quality and technical best practice Strong JVM experience (Scala, Kotlin or Java) Experience with AWS and infrastructure as code A strong testing mindset (TDD, CI/CD) Experience coaching and supporting engineers Java Kotlin, TypeScript, Python AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform React, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB Engineering Culture: Functional programming principles TDD and high-quality engineering standards Private healthcare Hybrid working and flexible hours Enhanced parental leave Pension and wellbeing support
To apply for this Head of Software Engineering opportunity please submit a copy of your CV – feel free to connect with me directly on LinkedIn – Richard Thexton….