Engineering Manager: Scale, Design & DevOps Lead

Jobtailor; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a senior software engineering lead in Greater London to build and mentor a high-performing team. You will supervise planning, execution, and delivery of complex software projects, aligning with business objectives and timelines.

You will promote DevOps practices, drive architectural standards, and ensure quality across products. The role demands a hands-on leader comfortable shaping technology strategy and delivering high-quality software at scale.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading multi-disciplinary software teams.
• Strong background in scalable web/backend systems.
• Deep knowledge of software design patterns and architectures.

Responsibilities

• Build, mentor, and manage a high-performing software engineering team.
• Oversee planning, execution, and delivery of software projects.
• Drive adoption of standards and methodologies for software development.
• Establish and enforce quality standards for performance, reliability, and usability.

Skills

Polyglot leadership

Java backend & web

Cloud architecture

DevOps mindset

Team leadership

System design & architecture

Job description

• Build, mentor, and manage a high-performing software engineering team.
• Oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of software projects, ensuring alignment with business objectives and timelines.
• Drive the adoption of standards and methodologies for software development.
• Establish and enforce quality standards, ensuring software products meet performance, reliability, and usability requirements.

Requirements

• Previous polyglot hands-on software engineer lead or manager
• Experience working on highly scalable software solutions across web or backend - java
• Extensive background in software engineering with several years’ experience in a variety of systems and technologies
• Experience building and leading teams of highly skilled, senior software engineers that deliver high-quality software.
• Excellent understanding of system design, software architecture, cloud, and software engineering standard methodologies,
• Promoter of DevOps: you build it, you run it.

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Hard Skills

• Software Engineering
• Scalable Software Solutions
• Cloud Technologies
• Quality Standards
• Software Development Methodologies

Soft Skills

• Mentoring
• Collaboration
• Communication