Team Leadership: hiring exceptional talent, developing engineers through meaningful 1:1s, coaching and career pathways, and creating a culture of ownership, accountability and high standards.
Delivery & Planning: Drive clarity and predictability. Own sprint planning, backlog prioritisation and execution in partnership with Product, ensuring the team consistently delivers valuable, high‑quality features and fixes at pace.
Engineering Excellence: Raise the engineering bar. Champion best‑in‑class design, testing, code review and CI/CD practices to ensure the team ships maintainable, dependable and well‑engineered software.
Technical Ownership: Provide strong technical leadership. Shape architectural decisions, make pragmatic trade‑offs, and partner with architects and SRE to build scalable, secure and observable systems.
Cross‑Functional Collaboration: Work seamlessly with Product, UX, Data and SRE to align on priorities, define clear acceptance criteria and coordinate smooth, confident releases.
Operational Responsibility: Ensure operational excellence. Support on‑call readiness, lead blameless post‑incident reviews, strengthen runbooks, monitoring and alerting, and embed SLIs/SLOs for the services your team owns.
Continuous Improvement: Remove friction, automate manual processes, embed learning loops, and foster a culture where experimentation, improvement and innovation are the norm.

Proven engineering management experience: 3+ years managing engineers with a track record of hiring, coaching and developing teams.
Software delivery at scale: Experience shipping production microservices or cloud‑native applications using public cloud (AWS preferred).
DevOps & CI/CD: Practical understanding of automated pipelines, Infrastructure as Code and container orchestration (Kubernetes or equivalent).
Quality & testing: Experience driving test strategy, automated testing and code quality initiatives.
Observability & incident response: Familiar with monitoring, logging and incident management practices to support reliable operations.
Stakeholder management: Strong communicator able to influence across product, design, SRE and senior leadership.
Technical background: Strong coding experience in at least one modern language (e.g. Java, Kotlin, Python, Go, C#) and familiarity with system design and architecture patterns.

25 days’ holiday + bank holidays
Option to buy or sell 5 extra annual leave days per year
Vitality Health Insurance, including private healthcare, virtual GP access and mental‑health support
Pension with 5% matched contribution
Regular team‑wide and company‑wide events
2 volunteering days per year
Remote‑first working environment with offices in London and Nottingham

Software Engineering Manager

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