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Engineering Manager
Salary: Up to £100,000 base + 15% bonus
Location: Croydon – 2 days per week in the office
Work Type: Permanent
Role
We’re looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to join an established engineering group at an important point in its journey.
This is a newly created role with the opportunity to make a genuine impact on how engineering operates. The business currently has an established desktop application environment and is preparing for its future transition towards SaaS and cloud.
Before that transition begins, there is an opportunity to strengthen engineering effectiveness across the existing environment – improving the SDLC, reducing manual processes, increasing automation and creating a smoother, more predictable approach to delivering quality software.
You’ll inherit leadership responsibilities within a wider engineering group of around 30 people and play a role in building and leading capability in Poland as part of the wider transformation.
This isn't about joining and rewriting everything from scratch. It's about understanding what already works, identifying where engineering can improve and bringing the team with you on that journey.
Responsibilities
As Engineering Manager, you'll combine technical credibility, people leadership and engineering strategy.
Your focus will include:
- Leading and supporting engineers within the wider engineering organisation.
- Improving engineering effectiveness across the software development lifecycle.
- Identifying and removing manual steps from the current release process.
- Improving CI/CD, automated testing and release automation.
- Addressing flaky tests, quality issues and security vulnerabilities as systemic engineering challenges rather than isolated problems.
- Helping engineers understand not only what they are doing, but why engineering processes and practices matter.
- Preparing the engineering environment for the future transition from desktop applications towards SaaS and cloud.
- Considering how AI-assisted development impacts the wider SDLC, particularly testing, security, quality and release processes.
- Bringing greater Product thinking into engineering by understanding how and why customers use the software.
- Playing a role in building and leading the Poland engineering capability as part of the wider transformation.
- Improving engineering practices pragmatically, without unnecessarily replacing existing systems or processes that work.
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Required Skills
We're looking for someone who has started their career in software engineering and progressed into engineering leadership while maintaining strong technical credibility.
Experience we're particularly interested in includes:
- A strong software engineering background, ideally within C#/.NET environments.
- Engineering leadership experience with the ability to challenge, coach and support technical teams.
- Experience working with or leading teams responsible for desktop applications.
- An understanding of the different challenges involved in developing and releasing desktop software compared with SaaS products.
- Experience improving SDLC and engineering effectiveness.
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD, automated testing and release automation.
- Experience tackling engineering quality issues such as flaky tests, manual release processes and security vulnerabilities.
- Strong people leadership skills.
- The ability to balance technical, Product and customer considerations when making engineering decisions.
- A pragmatic approach to transformation and continuous improvement.
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Experience considering or implementing AI-assisted software development practices would also be valuable, particularly where you've looked beyond code generation at the impact increased development velocity has on testing, security, quality and release processes.
Why should I apply?
This is an opportunity to join before a significant engineering transformation begins rather than arriving halfway through one.
You'll have the chance to influence how an established engineering organisation evolves, improve the foundations of the existing desktop environment and help prepare the team for its future move towards SaaS and cloud.
There are tangible engineering problems to solve today – from automation and testing through to release processes and engineering effectiveness – alongside the longer-term opportunity to influence how the organisation approaches modern software delivery.
You'll also have the opportunity to shape teams across the UK and Poland, bringing your own experience into an established engineering group while helping define what the next stage of its journey looks like.
Interview Process
The interview process consists of three stages:
- Stage 1: 45-minute conversation with the hiring team
- Stage 2: Technical test
- Stage 3: Two-hour onsite final interview in Reigate
Interested?
Apply for the role today or send your CV to pierre.rodriguez@wedotech.uk
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