Software Engineering Manager

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead a backend and integration engineering team through a major technology transformation.

You will play a key role in modernising legacy systems, developing scalable backend services and establishing reusable APIs and integration solutions. This position combines technical leadership with people management, offering the opportunity to influence architecture, contribute to development and build a high-performing engineering team.

Working closely with Product, Architecture and Engineering teams, you will help deliver secure, resilient and scalable solutions using modern cloud technologies.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of engineers while remaining hands-on with backend development, architecture and technical delivery.
• Design and develop scalable APIs, microservices and event-driven integrations.
• Drive the modernisation of legacy platforms and integration services.
• Establish engineering best practices across code quality, automated testing, CI/CD and infrastructure.
• Lead technical decisions, resolve complex challenges and ensure solutions are secure, reliable and maintainable.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver reusable services and support wider transformation programmes.
• Oversee service performance, monitoring, incident management and continuous improvement.

• Proven experience leading backend or integration engineering teams, including hands-on technical involvement.
• Strong development background using TypeScript or a similar modern backend language.
• Experience with REST APIs, microservices, event-driven architecture and distributed systems.
• Strong AWS knowledge, including Lambda, API Gateway, EventBridge, SQS/SNS and CloudWatch.
• Experience with Terraform, infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of automated testing, observability, security and production support.
• Experience modernising legacy applications or delivering complex technology transformation projects.
• Strong leadership skills with experience mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction.

Desirable Experience

• Financial services or other regulated industry experience.
• Exposure to data platforms such as Snowflake.
• Knowledge of domain-driven design, contract testing and API governance.
• Experience with legacy migration, system integration and controlled decommissioning.

This is an excellent opportunity for an Engineering Manager who enjoys remaining technically involved while leading a team and helping shape the future of a large-scale engineering platform., * AWS

• Terraform
• API Architecture
• TypeScript