Engineering Manager

Software Engineering Manager London (Hybrid) | Permanent, Full-time | Reports to the CTO Salary: £120,000 - £130,000

The role Our client is evolving its engineering organisation into a modern, high-performing, scalable team, and needs an Engineering Manager to lead that shift. You'll sit between technology, strategy and leadership: setting the technical culture, building the capabilities the team needs, and embedding engineering best practices across the business.

This is a hands-on leadership role. You'll work with senior stakeholders and product leaders across an international organisation to shape a long-term technology vision, while coaching engineers and setting the standard for how software gets built.

Tech stack Backend: Python, C# or Go Frontend: React or Angular Cloud: AWS, Azure or GCP

What you'll do

• Lead, coach and mentor software engineers across a range of experience levels • Run 1:1s, performance reviews and career development planning • Drive hiring, onboarding and retention • Oversee architecture decisions and keep them aligned with long-term technical strategy • Stay hands-on where it counts: code reviews, design input, troubleshooting • Partner with product to define roadmaps, scope projects and prioritise work • Run sprint planning and delivery, track velocity and remove blockers • Champion testing, CI/CD, monitoring and observability • Guide incident response and root cause analysis • Translate technical concepts into business impact, and the…