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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Software Engineering Manager - **Company:** Hargreaves Lansdown - **Location:** Bristol, UK - **Experience:** Experienced - **Salary:** £62,199.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Code Review, Continuous Integration, Distributed Systems, Performance Tuning, Software Engineering, Cloud Platform System, ReactJS, Backend, Kubernetes, React Native, Front End Software Development, Api Design, Docker, Microservices - **Published:** August 9, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5832267204 ## About the Role * 7+ years of experience building full-stack applications, with 2+ years leading engineering teams. * Strong technical background across frontend, mobile, and backend systems, including React, React Native, and modern API-driven architectures. * Solid experience with AWS and cloud-native platforms (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes), with a focus on scalability, resilience, and distributed systems. * Good understanding of full-stack architecture, including API design and integration, performance optimisation, security, and microservice or event-driven patterns. * Experience with CI/CD, modern development workflows, and observability practices. * Proven track record of leading high-performing teams in fast-paced, complex or regulated environments. * Passion for mentoring and developing engineers through coaching, feedback, and code reviews, fostering a culture of continuous improvement. * Ability to connect engineering, product, and business needs to deliver seamless, end-to-end client journeys. * Strong communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills, with the ability to influence and build alignment across teams. ## Description As an Engineering Manager, you will lead across four core areas: people, delivery, technical decision-making, and strategic alignment. You will act as a key bridge between engineering and the business, ensuring that technical direction supports product outcomes and client needs. While this is not a hands-on coding role, a strong technical foundation is essential to effectively guide your team and shape solutions. * Co-own the product roadmap with your Product Manager, defining clear outcomes, shaping scope, and making data-informed trade-offs across value, effort, and risk. * Drive technical decision-making by setting engineering standards, guiding architecture, and reviewing solutions across web and mobile (React / React Native) applications. * Forecast delivery using capacity and flow metrics, communicating timelines, dependencies, and risks early and transparently. * Establish engineering guardrails across scope, quality, and non-functional requirements, enabling teams to design optimal solutions within them. * Champion observability and operational excellence, ensuring system health, SLOs, and alerting are visible and actively managed. * Partner with Tech Leads and Architects on system design and evolution, bringing structured thinking to complex, distributed environments. * Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement, helping teams navigate technical and product challenges with clarity and purpose. * Grow and develop engineers through coaching, feedback, hiring, and creating an environment that supports autonomy, mastery, and purpose. * Remove blockers, drive cross-functional alignment, and maintain a sustainable, predictable delivery cadence. ## Related Videos - [Developing the Backend with Stefan Lingler, CTO at Shpock](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100360-developing-the-backend-with-stefan-lingler-cto-at-shpock) - [Watch Tests Go Brrrr! : Getting Started with Cypress in ReactJS](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/282-watch-tests-go-brrrr-getting-started-with-cypress-in-reactjs) - [Docker Compose: Rediscovered](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1978-docker-compose-rediscovered) - [Navigating the Corporate Jungle: Life as a Developer in a large Company](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/621-navigating-the-corporate-jungle-life-as-a-developer-in-a-large-company) - [Nest.js - TypeScript in the backend can also be clean](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1033-nest-js-typescript-in-the-backend-can-also-be-clean) - [Next Level Enterprise Architecture: Modular, Flexible, Scalable, Multichannel and AI-Ready?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1017-next-level-enterprise-architecture-modular-flexible-scalable-multichannel-and-ai-ready) ## Related Articles - [Software Engineer Salary London](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/252-software-engineer-salary-london) - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [Frontend Developer Salary in The UK](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/233-frontend-developer-salary-in-the-uk) - [Fullstack Developer Salary UK](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/251-fullstack-developer-salary-uk) - [Is Software Engineering Over-Saturated?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/418-is-software-engineering-over-saturated) - [Where To Find Software Engineering Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/396-where-to-find-software-engineering-jobs)