Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager – £90,000–£110,000 – Fully Remote UK

A high-impact Engineering Manager hire inside a technology business undergoing a major platform transformation.

A rare opportunity to lead teams modernising a large, mission-critical product while helping shape future architecture, platform strategy and engineering culture.

⚡ Real scale | Technical leadership | Meaningful ownership

The Opportunity 💻

Join a high-performance technology company building complex, real-time platforms used globally at significant scale.

The product is widely adopted and commercially critical — the engineering organisation is now investing heavily to modernise architecture, raise standards and accelerate delivery.

You'll step into a deeply technical environment spanning distributed systems, evolving microservices and large-scale platform change.

A leadership role where you shape both people and platform.

About the Role 💼

You'll lead multiple engineering squads responsible for core product domains.

• Manage and mentor engineers across seniority levels
• Drive planning, delivery and technical direction
• Partner closely with product and senior technical leadership
• Improve engineering processes, quality and developer velocity
• Stay technically credible through design input, PR reviews and guidance
• Help define future technology and architecture direction

You'll own outcomes, team health and technical standards.

What You'll Be Working On 🚀

• Modernising legacy services into scalable cloud platforms
• Microservices powering high-scale real-time systems
• Performance, scalability and reliability improvements
• Platform evolution and roadmap planning
• Hiring and growing strong engineering teams

Skills and Experience 📈

• Experience leading engineering teams building high-scale backend products
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and modern architecture
• Previous people leadership across multiple squads
• Comfortable operating through ambiguity and change
• Strong communicator aligning engineering and product
• Cloud platform experience (AWS)
• Exposure to C#/.Net environment

Nice to have:

• Exposure to platform modernisation or large technical transformation
• Background in SaaS or complex product environments

📍 Location: Fully Remote UK 💰 Compensation: £90k–£110k + strong benefits 🏢 Team: High standards, collaborative, delivery focused 🌱 Stage: Established product, major modernisation underway

If leading strong engineers while shaping complex systems at scale sounds like your kind of challenge, this one is worth a look.