Engineering Manager: Lead High-Impact, Scalable Systems

NatWest Boxed; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

NatWest Boxed in London is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team of talented engineers, shaping the product roadmap and delivering high-quality software.

You will own technical stewardship across one or more product mission areas, mentor engineers, collaborate with Product Managers and staff engineers, and ensure the platform remains scalable, secure, and operationally reliable.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading software engineering teams.
• Strong understanding of modern software development practices.
• Experience with cloud-based, event-driven or microservice architectures.

Responsibilities

• Managing software and quality engineers in a matrixed product engineering organisation, across empowered squads
• Owning technical stewardship of one or more NW Boxed product mission teams
• Ensuring your direct reports are motivated, happy and engaged to achieve high performance
• Providing engineering support and guidance to mission Product Managers, Product Owners and squad tech leads
• Working with our staff engineers and architecture function, to ensure your squads deliver the highest standards of technical design and implementation and that our platform is operationally excellent

Skills

Leadership

Team management

Software engineering

Cloud architecture

Microservices

Job description

NatWest Boxed in London is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team of talented engineers, shaping the product roadmap and delivering high-quality software.

You will own technical stewardship across one or more product mission areas, mentor engineers, collaborate with Product Managers and staff engineers, and ensure the platform remains scalable, secure, and operationally reliable.