Software Engineering Manager

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

📋 Description

• Lead a high-performing engineering team through the transition from a closely integrated monolith to a contemporary, domain-driven, product-oriented organization.

• Recruit top-tier talent and nurture engineers via individual meetings, coaching, and career pathways.

• Facilitate sprint planning, backlog prioritization, and execution in collaboration with Product.

• Advocate for design, testing, code review, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) methodologies.

• Influence architectural decisions and make pragmatic technical trade-offs.

• Collaborate with architects and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams to create scalable, secure, and observable systems.

• Work alongside Product, UX, Data, and SRE teams on priorities, acceptance criteria, and product releases.

• Assist in on-call readiness and lead post-incident reviews without placing blame.

• Enhance runbooks, monitoring, alerting, and service level indicators/service level objectives (SLIs/SLOs).

• Eliminate barriers, automate manual tasks, and promote continuous improvement and innovation.

⛳️ Requirements

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

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

• Hands-on experience with automated pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, and container orchestration (such as Kubernetes or similar).

• Proven ability to drive test strategies, automated testing, and initiatives focused on code quality.

• Knowledge of monitoring, logging, and incident management practices.

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

• Strong programming experience in at least one modern programming language (e.g., Java, Kotlin, Python, Go, C#).

• Understanding of system design and architectural patterns.

🏝️ Benefits

• 25 days of holiday plus public holidays.

• Up to 25% bonus based on both company and personal performance.

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

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

• Pension plan with a 5% matched contribution.

• Regular team-wide and company-wide events.

• 2 volunteering days annually.

• Remote-first working environment with office locations in London and Nottingham.