IT & Software

Engineering Manager (Java & Spring Boot)

Legal & General Investment Management

London · Greater London · United Kingdom

Overview

In this Engineering Manager role, you will lead a high-performing team to deliver secure, scalable software while staying hands-on. You will shape technical direction, drive engineering excellence, and partner with product, architecture and business stakeholders to create customer value. You’ll foster quality, testing and security practices and use metrics to improve delivery. This is a chance to impact the technology stack and help the business meet its ambitions in a large UK financial services group.

Pay / Benefits
  • annual bonus plan
  • share schemes
  • generous pension contribution
  • Life assurance
  • Healthcare Plan
  • electric car salary sacrifice
Responsibilities
  • Lead and develop a team of engineers to deliver high-quality, secure software
  • Prioritize, plan and oversee delivery to achieve predictable outcomes
  • Design and build scalable, maintainable software while remaining hands-on
  • Coach and mentor engineers with structured development plans
  • Embed a culture of quality, testing and security in daily engineering practices
  • Drive continuous improvement using delivery metrics and observability data
  • Manage operational readiness, incident response and technical debt to keep systems resilient
  • Collaborate with product, architecture and business stakeholders to remove blockers and deliver customer value
Key requirements
  • Significant hands-on Java engineering experience with Spring Boot microservices
  • Understanding of modern software architecture (domain-driven and event-driven design)
  • Experience leading engineering teams and mentoring people
  • Strong knowledge of test-driven development and automated testing
  • Experience with CI/CD, version control workflows, and software delivery pipelines
  • Understanding of secure software development, operational readiness and observability
  • Ability to balance technical, commercial and delivery considerations while influencing stakeholders
  • Passion for inclusive, collaborative environments
  • collaborative
  • leadership
  • mentoring
  • Java
  • Spring Boot microservices
  • Domain-driven design

Reference: WJ-747_30974934

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