Engineering Manager

Intec Select Ltd; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Benefits

Professional development support

Job summary

Intec Select Ltd in London is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead a modern, high-performing engineering organisation. This hybrid, permanent role sits between technology, strategy and leadership, setting technical culture and embedding best practices across the business.

The role is hands-on and involves coaching engineers, shaping long-term tech vision, running sprint ceremonies, prioritising roadmaps with product teams, and ensuring robust testing, CI/CD, monitoring and incident

Qualifications

• Proven track record managing and developing software engineering teams.
• Strong technical background in modern, cloud-native development.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Experience with Agile and scalable engineering practices.
• Familiarity with DevOps, microservices or data-driven architectures.
• Experience leading geographically distributed or cross-functional teams.
• Background in a high-growth, fast-paced environment.
• Strong communication, conflict-resolution and organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and mentor software engineers across a range of experience levels.
• Run 1:1s, performance reviews and career development planning.
• Drive hiring, onboarding and retention.
• Oversee architecture decisions and keep them aligned with long-term technical strategy.
• Stay hands-on where it counts: code reviews, design input, troubleshooting.
• Partner with product to define roadmaps, scope projects and prioritise work.
• Run sprint planning and delivery, track velocity and remove blockers.
• Champion testing, CI/CD, monitoring and observability.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Communication

Hiring

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

CI/CD

Job description

Software Engineering Manager

London (Hybrid) | Permanent, Full-time | Reports to the CTO

Salary: £120,000 - £130,000

The role

Our client is evolving its engineering organisation into a modern, high-performing, scalable team, and needs an Engineering Manager to lead that shift. You'll sit between technology, strategy and leadership: setting the technical culture, building the capabilities the team needs, and embedding engineering best practices across the business.

This is a hands‑on leadership role. You'll work with senior stakeholders and product leaders across an international organisation to shape a long-term technology vision, while coaching engineers and setting the standard for how software gets built.

Tech stack

• Backend: Python, C# or Go
• Frontend: React or Angular
• Cloud: AWS, Azure or GCP

What you'll do

• Lead, coach and mentor software engineers across a range of experience levels
• Run 1:1s, performance reviews and career development planning
• Drive hiring, onboarding and retention
• Oversee architecture decisions and keep them aligned with long-term technical strategy
• Stay hands‑on where it counts: code reviews, design input, troubleshooting
• Partner with product to define roadmaps, scope projects and prioritise work
• Run sprint planning and delivery, track velocity and remove blockers
• Champion testing, CI/CD, monitoring and observability
• Guide incident response and root cause analysis
• Translate technical concepts into business impact, and the reverse
• Contribute to budgeting, resource planning and technology strategy

What you'll bring

• Proven track record managing and developing software engineering teams
• Strong technical background in modern, cloud‑native development
• Hands‑on experience with AWS, Azure or GCP
• Experience with Agile and scalable engineering practices
• Familiarity with DevOps, microservices or data‑driven architectures
• Experience leading geographically distributed or cross‑functional teams
• Background in a high‑growth, fast‑paced environment
• Strong communication, conflict‑resolution and organisational skills
• Ability to align team output with business goals while protecting solid technical foundations

What's on offer

• The chance to build and shape a high-impact engineering organisation
• A collaborative culture where new ideas are encouraged
• Competitive salary, benefits and professional development support