Software Engineering Manager

Salary: £73,000 - 94,000 per year

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years in a management or technical lead role delivering distributed systems and cloud-native services.
• Proven experience in software architecture and system design for high availability, scalability, performance, and resilience.
• Strong track record with microservices, event-driven architecture, RESTful APIs, and gRPC.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration.
• Solid background in CI/CD pipeline implementation and tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, and GitHub Actions.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK) and distributed tracing (Jaeger, Zipkin).
• Proficiency with databases and data modeling: SQL, NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra), and performance tuning.
• Familiarity with messaging systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ) and asynchronous architectures.
• Strong programming experience in one or more languages (Java, C#, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Go) and build tools (Maven, Gradle).
• Experience implementing test automation strategies, TDD/BDD practices, and load testing (JMeter).
• Practical knowledge of DevOps/SRE principles, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation), and cost/capacity management in cloud environments.
• Understanding of security best practices including OAuth, SAML, and OWASP recommendations.
• Excellent communication skills and experience collaborating with product, QA, and operations teams.
• Proven ability to influence technical direction and deliver results.
• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Preferred: experience with frontend frameworks (React, Angular, Vue) and familiarity with tools like Git, Gradle, and release & incident management processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow multiple engineering teams; hire, coach, conduct performance reviews, and promote career development.
• Define and own technical direction and architecture for scalable, high‑availability systems and microservices.
• Set standards for design, code quality, testing, and release practices.
• Partner with product managers and stakeholders to translate roadmaps into delivery plans and reliable production services.
• Drive system design and architecture reviews, including distributed systems patterns, event‑driven architectures, gRPC and RESTful APIs, and data modeling for SQL and NoSQL stores.
• Own the SDLC and Agile/SCRUM delivery processes, including sprint planning, backlog grooming, estimations, and continuous improvement.
• Champion CI/CD and DevOps practices and pipeline orchestration to accelerate safe delivery and automated releases.
• Collaborate with SRE and Ops on monitoring, observability, logging and tracing to ensure SLAs, incident response, and release & incident management.
• Drive performance tuning, capacity planning, and cost optimization for cloud environments and container orchestrations.
• Design and enforce testing strategy, including unit, integration, end‑to‑end, TDD/BDD, test automation, and load testing.
• Advocate and enforce security and compliance best practices, including OWASP guidance and identity standards.
• Manage infrastructure‑as‑code and cloud automation using Terraform, CloudFormation, and related tooling across AWS, Azure, and GCP environments.
• Oversee messaging and data architectures and optimize for throughput and resilience.
• Lead code review practices, technical debt management, and architectural and process improvements to increase developer productivity.
• Drive observability of business and technical metrics, build runbooks, and improve incident postmortems and remediation processes.

Technologies

• AWS
• Angular
• Azure
• C#
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• Cassandra
• DevOps
• Docker
• ELK
• Frontend
• GCP
• Git
• GitHub
• GitLab
• Gradle
• Grafana
• Incident Management
• Java
• JavaScript
• Jenkins
• JMeter
• Kafka
• Kubernetes
• Maven
• MongoDB
• NoSQL
• OWASP
• OAuth
• Prometheus
• Python
• RabbitMQ
• React
• SAML
• SQL
• Security
• TDD
• Terraform
• TypeScript
• Vue
• gRPC
• microservices

More

Backed by industry leaders in the fitness world, our company has created a platform that enables anyone in the world to track their athletic performance and sign up for athletic events. We are actively growing our team and are hiring a Software Engineering Manager for Canadian residents. This is a remote role with one in‑office day per month. We offer a healthcare package, profit sharing bonus, company discounts, and a base salary of CAD $170,000 to $185,000.

last updated 36 week of 2026