Software Engineer – Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Lead, nurture, and expand a team of software engineers integrated within PureGym’s delivery squads.

• Ensure engineers remain motivated, develop professionally, and consistently achieve business outcomes efficiently and with high quality.

• Serve as the vital link between individual squad members and the broader engineering function.

• Collaborate closely with the Head of Software Engineering and other Software Engineering Managers.

• Conduct one-on-one meetings, development discussions, performance management, calibration, and recruitment.

• Act as one of three leadership roles in the initiative lifecycle alongside the Delivery Manager and Business Analyst.

• Oversee the Discovery phase for initiatives and lead or support the acceptance of these initiatives.

• Provide reactive technical assistance, review pull requests, and address any technical debt.

• Contribute as an engineer for one sprint equivalent each quarter, rotating among squads.

• Engage in large-scale planning, cross-functional efforts, non-functional requirements oversight, compliance and access governance, and operational cost management.

• Offer line management, pastoral support, performance discussions, and career progression guidance.

• Establish development objectives, monitor progress, and assist in promotion cases through the engineering growth framework.

• Conduct performance evaluations and objective-setting in alignment with the Head of Software Engineering and the broader calibration process.

• Integrate engineering standards and adopt AI-first methodologies.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in managing software engineers in a direct line management role, including conducting one-on-ones, leading performance discussions, and facilitating career advancement.

• Strong engineering foundation and technical credibility, preferably at the Technical Lead level or higher.

• Competence in providing clear, direct, and honest feedback while creating effective development plans.

• Good judgment regarding when to intervene within a squad and when to take a step back.

• Ability to analyze incidents and obstacles to drive root cause resolution effectively.

• Experience in upstream technical work, pre-delivery workshops, shaping delivery missions, and collaborating with the Principal Software Engineer.

• Familiarity with working in a matrixed or self-organizing engineering team structure (preferred).

• Experience in a direct-to-consumer digital business (app, website, or e-commerce) (preferred).

• Experience in supporting engineers through significant structural or cultural transformations (preferred).

• Practical experience with AI coding tools and agentic engineering workflows (preferred).

• Knowledge of .NET, Azure, or event-driven microservice architectures (preferred).

• Technical expertise in .NET, Kafka, Postgres, GraphQL, Kubernetes, Azure, GitHub workflows, Grafana, Astro, .NET MAUI, Payload, Braze, authentication flows, internationalization, and agile Kanban-style delivery.

🏝️ Benefits

• Complimentary nationwide gym membership for you plus one.

• Hybrid working arrangements.

• A genuinely flexible working culture.

• Personal private healthcare, including access to a digital GP.

• Life insurance at four times your salary.

• Company pension contributions.

• 25 days of annual leave, plus one personal day.

• Option to purchase additional holiday (up to five days).

• Excellent learning and development resources.

• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.