Engineering Manager: Lead Scalable Backend & DevOps

Jobtailor; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor, a London-based tech company, seeks a senior engineering leader to build and mentor high-performing software teams and cultivate a culture of collaboration, ownership, and continuous improvement. You will oversee planning, delivery of complex initiatives, and embed DevOps, ensuring scalable, secure production systems while aligning with business objectives and timelines.

Collaborating with product, design, programme management and operations, you’ll shape roadmaps, set technical

Qualifications

• A strong engineering leader with a passion for building, developing, and empowering high-performing software teams.
• Hands-on senior software engineer with experience across a broad range of technologies, platforms, and architectural patterns.
• Experience delivering highly scalable backend systems, ideally within Java-based environments.
• Extensive software engineering experience across multiple technologies, frameworks, and delivery environments.

Responsibilities

• Build, mentor, and lead high-performing software engineering teams with a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Oversee planning, execution, and delivery of complex software initiatives aligned with business objectives and budgets.
• Collaborate with product management, design, programme management, and operations to shape roadmaps and deliver outcomes.
• Provide technical leadership, guiding architecture, design decisions, and engineering best practices across fulfilment systems.
• Drive adoption of modern engineering standards, tools, and methodologies to improve quality and delivery efficiency.
• Embed DevOps principles and maintain reliable, scalable, secure production systems.

Skills

Technical leadership

Software architecture

Java-based environments

DevOps principles

System design

Job description

Jobtailor, a London-based tech company, seeks a senior engineering leader to build and mentor high-performing software teams and cultivate a culture of collaboration, ownership, and continuous improvement. You will oversee planning, delivery of complex initiatives, and embed DevOps, ensuring scalable, secure production systems while aligning with business objectives and timelines.

Collaborating with product, design, programme management and operations, you’ll shape roadmaps, set technical