Engineering Manager

SF Recruitment; Wolverhampton; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading professional services organization is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team in developing modular applications. This role, based near Birmingham, emphasizes a strong Java background and team leadership experience. Candidates should be passionate about community engagement in tech and have experience in microservices architecture. Offering a salary up to £100,000 with excellent benefits including hybrid working and extensive career progression opportunities.

Benefits

Starting salary up to £100,000

Bonus

Company ownership shares

Electric company car scheme

Flexible working hours

Promotion opportunities

Best in class wellbeing scheme

Private pension scheme

Training and personal development budget

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Qualifications

• Strong Java development background.
• Extensive team leadership capabilities.
• Passion for helping underrepresented groups in tech.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team to design and develop cloud-hosted applications.
• Ensure solutions are robust, scalable and aligned with business goals.
• Foster a culture of high performance and continuous improvement.

Skills

Java development

Team leadership

Microservices architecture

Servant leadership

Commitment to local tech ecosystem

Spring framework

RDBMS including NoSQL, MongoDB

Git version control

Cloud technologies awareness

Job description

Overview

Engineering Manager with a background in Java development, microservices architecture, and team leadership experience. Demonstrated involvement in the local development scene (women in tech, meet ups, community engagement) is sought on a hybrid basis by a market leading professional services organisation with a technical hub based near Birmingham.

Working at the forefront of AI driven financial technology, this Engineering Manager will lead a team tasked with creating bespoke, modular applications within a cloud hosted microservices architecture to deliver robust, highly scalable solutions used by millions daily.

With a real commitment to employee wellbeing and personal development, this role offers long‑term hybrid, flexible working and a clearly defined progression path with multiple promotion opportunities and a companywide wellbeing program.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team to design, develop and deliver modular applications within a cloud hosted microservices framework.
• Collaborate to ensure solutions are robust, scalable and aligned with business goals.
• Contribute to a culture of high performance and continuous improvement.

Qualifications / Key Skills

• Strong Java development background
• Extensive team leadership capabilities (ideally with experience leading teams of 5 or more)
• Passion for helping under represented groups get into tech
• Servant leadership approach with the ability to inspire, motivate and lead by example
• Commitment to the local tech ecosystem (women in tech, tech meet-ups, etc.) is a plus
• Microservice architecture experience
• Historic strong framework exposure – Spring, Hibernate, etc.
• RDBMS experience – NoSQL, MongoDB, etc.
• Git version control
• Awareness of cloud technologies

Benefits

• Starting salary of up to £100,000
• Bonus
• Company ownership shares
• Electric company car scheme
• Long term hybrid working (2 days a week on site)
• Flexible working hours
• Four promotion and salary review opportunities each year
• Best in class physical and mental wellbeing scheme
• Private pension scheme
• Training and personal development budget and time allocation
• Wellbeing protection (death in service, critical illness cover, income protection)
• Extensive career progression opportunities
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays with holiday buy & sell scheme
• Choice of technology
• Season ticket loan / cycle to work scheme

Circa £100,000 plus bonus – Engineering Manager – Java, team leadership, Microservices, AWS, RDBMS, Splunk, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, Git