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Software Engineering Manager
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Software Engineering Manager – Hands-On + Leadership
📍 Remote (Midlands, UK) | Occasional travel to UK & European sites
💰 £80,000 - £100,000
We're working with a client who is looking for a Software Engineering Manager who combines strong technical leadership with genuine hands-on delivery, taking ownership of both software architecture and cloud infrastructure across critical, high-reliability systems.
This is a true 50/50 role. You'll spend real time leading, growing and supporting a team of 6 (and counting), while also staying hands-on with architecture, code and infrastructure decisions. You're as comfortable in a 1:1 or planning session as you are in a code review or design discussion.
Leadership & Management
- Lead and grow a small but expanding engineering team, providing clear technical direction and day-to-day management
- Own team performance, development plans and career growth for your direct reports
- Run planning, prioritisation and delivery cadence for the team, balancing technical debt against feature delivery
- Act as the escalation point for technical and delivery risks, communicating clearly to stakeholders
- Set and uphold engineering standards and best practices across the team
- Mentor engineers, conducting code reviews and pairing to raise the bar on quality
- Work cross-functionally with a multi-disciplinary team to translate customer and regulatory requirements into delivery plans
- Contribute to hiring and onboarding as the team continues to grow
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Hands-On Technical Work
- Own software architecture decisions across critical business systems
- Take responsibility for AWS cloud infrastructure, including ongoing security hardening aligned with Secure by Design principles
- Design, build and maintain scalable applications using Python and React
- Architect and deliver Progressive Web Apps with React, Flask and Python backends
- Build and integrate REST APIs and contribute to event-driven, microservices-based systems
- Apply resilience patterns (retries, timeouts, failover strategies) and think critically about performance, latency and scalability
- Embed secure development practices and support regulatory and customer security requirements
- Champion observability through robust logging and monitoring
- Own and improve CI/CD pipelines for build, test and deployment
- Produce clear technical and user documentation as standard practice
What You'll Bring
- Proven experience managing or leading a small engineering team, with a track record of growing team capability
- Strong hands-on technical background in Python and React, ideally including Flask
- Experience owning software delivery end-to-end, from concept through to production and ongoing support
- Solid grounding in software development lifecycles, requirements management and traceability
- A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent hands-on experience
- Comfortable operating in a highly regulated, safety-critical environment
- Eligibility for UK SC clearance is essential
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The Setup
This role is remote-first, with an expectation to be in the Midlands office around once a month, plus occasional travel to sites across the UK and Europe (roughly 2-3 times a year). You'll be joining a team working on systems where reliability, security and quality aren't optional extras.
If you're an engineering leader who still wants to write code, solve real problems, and shape a growing team's technical culture, we'd love to hear from you.
📩 Apply now or send a message to find out more.
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