Engineering Manager

106 Recruitment; Birmingham; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is looking for a Product Engineering Manager to lead a team of developers in the UK, Canada, and Australia. The role involves managing development workflows, mentoring the team, and ensuring alignment between engineering and business needs. Ideal candidates will be strong communicators with experience in software management and a knack for improving collaboration. This full-time position offers a chance to impact software delivery for government applications.

Qualifications

• Experience managing or leading a software engineering team.
• Strong understanding of modern web applications.
• Comfortable translating business needs into technical tasks.
• Confident leading delivery workflows across time zones.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a distributed development team.
• Manage product roadmap aligned with business priorities.
• Run stand-ups, planning sessions, and delivery cycles.
• Ensure development work is well-defined and prioritized.
• Support strong architectural and technical decisions.
• Refine processes to improve delivery speed and quality.

Skills

Team leadership

Software engineering

Business needs translation

Communication skills

Job description

Product Engineering Manager

We’re hiring a Product Engineering Manager to lead a team of 7 developers across the UK, Canada and Australia.

Imagine this:

Your team is waking up across three continents.

By the time you’ve finished your flat white, you’ve aligned a global engineering team on a plan that will ship meaningful improvements to software used in Parliaments and governments around the world.

If that thought feels energising rather than overwhelming - keep reading.

You’ll bring structure, clarity and rhythm to how we plan, build and deliver software.

You won’t be writing code every day, but you will be close enough to the technology to guide decisions, unblock the team and ensure we ship well.

This is a role for someone who enjoys bringing order to complexity - not by being the loudest voice, but by improving how people collaborate.

What you’ll be doing

• Leading and mentoring a distributed development team across 3 time zones
• Managing the product roadmap and aligning it with business priorities
• Running stand-ups, planning sessions, retrospectives and delivery cycles
• Ensuring development work is scoped, prioritised and clearly defined
• Supporting developers in making strong architectural and technical decisions
• Introducing and refining processes to improve delivery speed and quality
• Keeping communication clear between engineering and the rest of the organisation

What we’re looking for

• Experience managing or leading a software engineering team
• A strong understanding of how modern web applications are built
• Comfortable translating business needs into clear technical tasks
• Confident leading delivery workflows (stand-ups, sprints, roadmaps etc.)
• Able to work effectively across different time zones and communication styles
• Clear communicator who values transparency and shared understanding

Nice to have (not required)

• Background in software development (any modern backend language is fine)
• Experience with SaaS products or public-sector / civic tech environments
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (Google Cloud, AWS etc.)
• Experience leading distributed or remote-first teams

Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Information Technology

Industries

Technology, Information and Media