Software Engineering Manager

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

📋 Description

• Oversee a team of approximately 7–8 engineers within Flex.

• Report directly to the Engineering Director.

• Foster a high-performing engineering culture that enables individuals to thrive, develop, and achieve significant customer results.

• Mentor engineers, evaluate technical decisions, enhance engineering standards, and collaborate with Product to design solutions.

• Enhance the collaboration between Engineering and Product teams.

• Contribute to the development of the future team structure as Flex and DSR organizations merge.

• Recruit outstanding talent and support engineers through one-on-one meetings, coaching, and career development paths.

• Manage sprint planning, backlog prioritization, and execution in conjunction with Product.

• Advocate for design, testing, code review, and CI/CD methodologies.

• Influence architectural decisions and work alongside architects and SRE to create scalable, secure, and observable systems.

• Collaborate with Product, UX, Data, and SRE teams on priorities, acceptance criteria, and release schedules.

• Ensure on-call readiness, lead blameless post-incident reviews, enhance runbooks, monitoring, and alerting, and integrate SLIs/SLOs.

• Eliminate obstacles, automate manual processes, and promote experimentation, improvement, and innovation.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 3 years’ experience managing engineers with a proven history of hiring, coaching, and developing teams.

• Experience in deploying production microservices or cloud-native applications utilizing public cloud (AWS preferred).

• Hands-on knowledge of automated pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, and container orchestration (Kubernetes or similar).

• Experience in steering test strategy, automated testing, and code quality initiatives.

• Understanding of monitoring, logging, and incident management processes.

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence stakeholders across product, design, SRE, and senior leadership.

• Proficient coding experience in at least one modern programming language (Java, Kotlin, Python, Go, or C#).

• Knowledge of system design and architectural patterns.

🏝️ Benefits

• 25 days of vacation plus bank holidays.

• Option to purchase or sell 5 additional annual leave days each year.

• Vitality Health Insurance, which includes private healthcare, virtual GP access, mental health support, and wellness benefits.

• 50% discount on gym memberships (Virgin Active, Nuffield, PureGym).

• Pension plan with a 5% matched contribution.

• Regular team and company-wide events.

• Two volunteering days per year for community engagement.

• Remote-first work environment with offices located in London and Nottingham.