Engineering Manager

PortSwigger; Knutsford; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company in the UK is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead and support high-performing teams. The role emphasizes technical credibility and exceptional leadership to drive impactful outcomes while fostering a culture of curiosity and collaboration. Ideal candidates will have experience in engineering management and be motivated by coaching and enabling autonomy among engineers.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Share options

8% employer pension contribution

Life assurance

Income protection

Private medical insurance

25 days holiday

Regular team events

Flexible working hours

Qualifications

• Proven experience in engineering management and team leadership.
• Experience with AI technologies and their application in teams.
• Ability to balance urgency with care for sustainable impact.

Responsibilities

• Lead high-performing engineering teams focused on impactful delivery.
• Drive solution discoveries with product teams and prioritize customer needs.
• Foster a culture of autonomy and collaboration within the team.

Skills

Technical credibility

Leadership excellence

Coaching

Curiosity about AI

Collaboration

Job description

Overview

As an Engineering Manager at PortSwigger, you’re not just here to deliver projects, you unlock the conditions for teams to do their best work. You’ll blend technical credibility with leadership excellence to build high-performing teams. You’ll create the conditions where engineers thrive, where outcomes matter, delivery is both fast and sustainable, and people feel safe to stretch, learn, and grow.

Your role is about setting an exceptional bar while also providing mentoring, feedback, and shared leadership. You’ll shape teams that serve real users, strengthen our mission of enabling the world to secure the web, and help shape a culture where people thrive.

What You’ll Do

• Lead by example, balancing technical credibility with people leadership.
• Drive solution discovery with Product and UX, ensuring we solve the right problems.
• Champion customer centricity, grounding decisions in real user needs and feedback.
• Monitor solution success, ensuring delivery leads to adoption, impact, and measurable value.
• Create and nurture high-performing teams that deliver impactful outcomes.
• Approach AI with curiosity, experimenting where it accelerates outcomes, and embedding it thoughtfully into how your team works.
• Provide mentoring, feedback, and structured opportunities for engineers to develop skills and take on more responsibility.
• Make strong decisions under uncertainty while surfacing risks early and seeking input when needed.
• Shape a culture of autonomy, curiosity, and collaboration across engineering, product, and beyond.

About You

• You balance urgency with care, emphasising sustainable impact on users, business value, and team growth.
• You’ve built systems, not just solved tasks, shaping outcomes that outlast you.
• You bring deep technical credibility and pair it with exceptional leadership ability.
• You can be trusted to make sound decisions, even in ambiguity.
• You work transparently, sharing openly, surfacing risks early, and seeking input when needed.
• You balance short-term execution with long-term team and product health.
• You actively seek feedback, reflect, and adapt.
• You thrive on learning, experimentation, and resilience, avoiding perfectionism while striving for excellence.
• You demonstrate a hands-on approach to AI and automation, actively experimenting with and embedding these technologies to accelerate outcomes and improve how your team works. You\'re curious about AI\'s potential and have a clear vision for how to apply it thoughtfully to solve problems. You demonstrate resilience and adaptability, thriving through change or challenge.
• You’re motivated by coaching and enabling autonomy.
• You mentor engineers, fostering clarity and psychological safety.
• You model humility, empathy, and candour, strengthening collaboration across

Why Join PortSwigger

Purpose and Culture

At PortSwigger, high performance comes hand in hand with high support. We expect exceptional outcomes, but we invest just as much in helping you reach that bar. You’ll join a community that values curiosity, radical candour, and genuine care. You’ll have the freedom to experiment, the trust to take ownership, and the support of an organisation that has your back.

Ways We Stay Connected

Our culture thrives on connection. From open, collaborative workspaces designed for connection to regular all-hands, to informal knowledge-sharing, we create spaces, physical and cultural, that keep curiosity alive and ideas flowing.

• We believe in rewarding people generously and offer a competitive salary based on individual skills and contribution.
• We offer share options
• 8% employer pension contribution
• Life assurance
• Income protection
• Private medical insurance
• 25 days holiday (plus public holidays)
• We host regular team events and have fantastic summer and winter parties.
• We foster an inclusive and high-performance culture with a focus on work-life balance.
• You’ll be part of a humble, supportive, and fun team that values collaboration, humour, and a strong sense of belonging.
• Our working hours are flexible, with core hours from 9am to 4pm.