Software Engineering Manager

Verum Recruitment
Bs12Ph, BS1 2PH, United Kingdom
Yesterday
£80,000 – £90,000 pa

Salary

£80,000 – £90,000 pa

Posted
16 Jul 2026 (Yesterday)

Are you an Engineering Manager who cares more about the people you grow than the tickets you close? If so, read on!

My client is a fast-growing, product-led business building cloud-native software that actually matters to its customers. They've invested seriously in engineering culture, not just talked about it, and now they need someone to lead two engineering squads and make sure both the people and the delivery are firing on all cylinders.

As an Engineering Manager, the following will apply:

  • You've managed and grown engineers before, and you're genuinely good at it, hiring, career development, and the honest performance conversations included
  • You can run delivery across more than one team without things quietly falling apart
  • You've got enough technical grounding (modern web stack, ideally something like .NET/React, cloud platform experience such as Azure) to ask the right questions and earn trust, even though you're not the one writing the code
  • Rotas and escalation paths don't scare you, you know how to make on-call something people don't dread
  • You care about psychological safety and continuous improvement, not as buzzwords, but as things you actually build into how a team works

As an Engineering Manager, you'll own the people side and the delivery side of two squads, while partnering closely with each squad's Tech Lead on architecture and direction. This is a deliberately hands-off-the-keyboard role: your impact shows up in the engineers you develop, the team you build, and the delivery system you put around them, not in your commit history.

You will be a strong communicator who can move comfortably between engineers, tech leads, and non-technical stakeholders, with a genuine interest in where AI-assisted development is heading and how it fits into modern engineering practice.

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