We are partnering with a rapidly growing technology company seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a full-stack engineering team while remaining hands-on with architecture, design, and delivery.
This is an opportunity to join a business at a pivotal stage of its growth as it modernises its technology estate and continues to scale its platform and engineering capabilities.
You will play a key role in shaping technical direction, mentoring engineers, driving engineering excellence, and delivering high-quality software solutions within a complex, data-intensive environment.
The role offers a balance of leadership and hands-on engineering, making it ideal for someone who enjoys building teams while remaining close to technology and product development.
The Role
As an Engineering Manager, you will:
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of software engineers.
- Remain hands-on with architecture, technical design, and delivery.
- Drive engineering best practices, quality standards, and technical excellence.
- Own the delivery of core platform services and customer-facing applications.
- Collaborate closely with Product, Data, DevOps, and Quality Engineering teams.
- Support the evolution of a modern cloud-native technology platform.
- Champion engineering efficiency through automation, tooling, and AI-assisted development workflows.
- Help shape long-term technical strategy and platform architecture.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead delivery across multiple products, services, and engineering initiatives.
- Manage engineers in a player-coach capacity, providing mentorship, guidance, and performance support.
- Design, develop, and optimise scalable backend services using C# and .NET.
- Apply modern software architecture principles, including domain-driven design and event-driven architectures.
- Ensure systems are secure, observable, resilient, and scalable.
- Promote high standards across software development, testing, CI/CD, monitoring, and operational excellence.
- Work closely with stakeholders to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions.
- Drive continuous improvement across engineering processes, tooling, and ways of working.
- Encourage adoption of modern AI-assisted engineering practices where appropriate.
- Previous experience leading or managing software engineering teams.
- Strong hands-on software engineering experience with C# and .NET.
- Experience designing and building distributed, service-oriented, event-driven systems.
- Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices, including:
- Automated testing
- CI/CD
- Observability
- Hands-on experience working with AWS cloud environments.
- Experience working with modern AI-assisted development tools and workflows.
- Ability to translate complex business problems into scalable technical solutions.
- Strong ownership mindset with accountability for delivery and operational reliability.
- Experience modernising or re-platforming legacy applications.
- Front-end development experience using React and TypeScript.
- Experience working within highly regulated or data-intensive industries.
- Exposure to Kafka or similar event-streaming technologies.
- Experience operating within high-growth SaaS or technology businesses.
What We’re Looking For
We are looking for a leader who combines strong technical depth with excellent people management skills. The ideal candidate will be:
- Hands-on and technically credible.
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
- Passionate about mentoring and developing engineers.
- Naturally collaborative and commercially aware.
- Excited by solving complex technical challenges at scale.
- Motivated by building high-performing teams and modern technology platforms.
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