Adele Carr Recruitment
Engineering Manager (Player-Coach) - £80,000-£85,000 + 10% Bonus & Good Benefits
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Engineering Manager (Player-Coach) - £80,000-£85,000 + 10% Bonus & Good Benefits - Manchester - 1 day a week onsite / 4 from home
The Role
We're looking for a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead one or more software engineering teams delivering business-critical platforms and services.
This is a player-coach role. You'll be responsible for building and developing a high-performing team while remaining actively involved in technical design, architecture and engineering delivery.
We're not looking for someone who has stepped away from technology. We want an engineering leader who still enjoys solving technical problems, reviewing designs, improving developer experience and helping teams deliver quality software at scale.
What You'll Do
- Lead, mentor and grow a team of software engineers.
- Drive delivery across multiple workstreams and projects.
- Contribute to architecture and technical decision-making.
- Remain close to the codebase and support engineers with complex technical challenges.
- Improve engineering processes, tooling and automation.
- Work closely with Product, Delivery and Architecture teams.
- Support recruitment, onboarding and career development.
- Foster a collaborative, high-performance engineering culture.
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What We're Looking For
Leadership
- Experience leading engineering teams in fast-paced environments.
- Track record of developing engineers and building strong teams.
- Strong coaching and mentoring skills.
- Experience balancing delivery, technical quality and people leadership.
Technical
- Skills in JavaScript OR Java
- NodeJS would be ideal
- JavaScript / TypeScript
- AWS or other cloud
- Serverless and microservices architectures
- Docker and Kubernetes
- PostgreSQL / MySQL
- Messaging technologies such as RabbitMQ
- CI/CD and automated testing
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Ideal Background
You'll likely come from a Senior Engineer, Tech Lead, Engineering Lead or Engineering Manager background and still enjoy being technically involved day-to-day.
You'll have experience designing scalable systems, improving engineering practices, and using automation to remove friction for development teams.
Why Join?
You'll have the opportunity to shape technical direction, build strong engineering teams and remain hands-on with technology, rather than becoming purely people-management focused.
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