Engineering Manager – Portal Systems & Data Platform

RealityMine; Stretford; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Free parking

Secure bike shed

Team lunches

Job summary

RealityMine in Manchester is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a small team in the Panel Systems area, building dashboards and APIs for client integrations.

You will shape technical direction, manage people, and work with a Tech Lead on architecture, pipelines, and trade-offs. Hybrid work with office 2 days a week.

This role suits an experienced Team Lead or senior engineer ready to grow into people management.

Qualifications

• Experience managing or mentoring software engineers, with hiring, performance, and career development.
• Solid technical background in modern web and backend systems, including APIs and cloud platforms such as AWS, Serverless, Lambda, PHP, Laravel, Angular, React.
• Experience and confidence in using AI tooling for general purpose and software engineering tasks.
• Experience contributing to or delivering customer-facing or internal product platforms.
• Knowledge of agile software development methodologies and delivery practices.
• Clear, direct communicator, able to work effectively with a range of stakeholders.
• Comfortable engaging with architecture, system design, and engineering trade-offs alongside your Tech Lead.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery for your team within Panel Systems (Portal) – scope, sequencing, and trade-offs – keeping work aligned with product and business priorities.
• Line-manage a small team of engineers building and maintaining Portal applications, APIs, and supporting services used by internal teams and panellists, including regular 1:1s, feedback, and career development.
• Work with your Tech Lead and senior engineers on the evolution of the Portal architecture, improving scalability, maintainability, and consistency across systems.
• Support automation, tooling, and platform improvements that increase delivery speed and quality.
• Hire and onboard engineers, and run fair, well-calibrated performance reviews against RealityMine’s framework.
• Help establish and maintain good engineering practices within the Portal domain, including observability, testing, documentation, and incident response.
• Ensure your team delivers reliable, secure, and performant systems, supporting panel engagement and data collection.
• Represent your team’s work to Product and other Engineering teams, translating business priorities into technical plans and vice versa.
• Collaborate with your Tech Lead to shape a balanced roadmap of technical improvements, debt, and feature work.
• Uphold RealityMine’s policies on security, quality, data privacy, and compliance (e.g. ISO 27001) within your team.
• Adhering to Company Policies and Procedures with respect to Security, Quality and Health & Safety.

Skills

People leadership

Software engineering

APIs

AWS

Serverless

Lambda

PHP

Laravel

Angular

React

Agile

CI/CD

Job description

RealityMine in Manchester is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a small team in the Panel Systems area, building dashboards and APIs for client integrations.

You will shape technical direction, manage people, and work with a Tech Lead on architecture, pipelines, and trade-offs. Hybrid work with office 2 days a week.

This role suits an experienced Team Lead or senior engineer ready to grow into people management.