Engineering Manager (Software)

Ocean Infinity; Greater London; On-site; GBP 81,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Ocean Infinity, based in London, is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a group of software engineers within the Core Engineering team (C#/.NET or Node/TypeScript). This senior role focuses on people, capability and capacity, ensuring engineers are developed, performance is strong, and projects align with company priorities.

You will work with team leads to grow a scalable engineering organization, handle recruitment, onboarding, and resource planning, and protect team health and engagement

Qualifications

• Experience leading software engineers in scaling organisations.
• Proven ability to hire, retain and develop engineering talent.
• Strong coaching and feedback skills; fair performance handling.

Responsibilities

• Line-manage a group of engineers; run regular 1:1s and career development.
• Own performance management, recognition and rewards.
• Lead recruitment, onboarding and retention for your group.
• Own capacity and resource planning; allocate engineers to projects.
• Collaborate with product and other leads to balance capacity.
• Build leadership pipeline and ensure a healthy team environment.

Skills

People management

Hiring & onboarding

Coaching & feedback

Capacity planning

Performance management

Tools

C#/.NET

Node/TypeScript

Job description

AtOcean Infinity, we're on a bold mission to subsea data using innovative technology.

Using cutting-edge robotics, autonomous technology and world-class software, we're transforming how complex operations are carried out at sea. Our uncrewed systems are making ocean exploration and operationssafer, smarter and more sustainable, helping unlock the vast potential of our oceans while reducing environmental impact.

This isn't a vision for the future.It's happening right now.

As we continue to push the boundaries of innovation and redefine what's possible in the maritime industry, we're looking for exceptional talent to join our fast-growing team.

Ocean Infinity is looking for an Engineering Manager to own the people, organisational capability and engineering capacity of a group of engineers within our Core Engineering team ( C#/.NET orNode/TypeScript). This is a senior people-leadership role: rather than owning the technical architecture or product priority, your role is to make sure the engineers in your group are well managed, performing to the best of their abilities, and developed and deployed against the organisation’s priorities.

You’ll work closely with team leads to keep technical leadership and people management aligned as the engineering group grows, and hold responsibility for building a scalable engineering team.

What you will do!

• Line-manage a group of engineers: run regular 1:1s, give feedback, and own their career development.
• Own performance management, recognition and reward for your engineers.
• Lead recruitment, onboarding and retention across your group.
• Own capacity and resource planning – decide where engineering resource is deployed and flag constraints early.
• Work with engineers to allocate them to projects, and manage workload to ensure projects can be delivered on time and with a high level of quality.
• Work with the product team and other team leads to resolve resource constraints and balance competing demands for capacity.
• Build the succession and technical leadership pipeline within your group, and identify capability gaps before they affect the team.
• Protect team health, engagement and working environment, and escal...

What we look for!

• Several years’ experience managing and developing software engineers, ideally within a scaling engineering organisation.
• A track record of hiring, retaining and developing engineering talent, including into more senior or lead roles.
• Comfortable balancing competing demands for engineering capacity across multiple concurrent projects or squads.
• Strong 1:1, coaching and feedback skills, with the judgement to handle performance issues fairly and directly.
• Enough technical credibility in engineering to earn the trust of the engineers you manage – you don’t need to own the technology, but you need to know how it works.
• Comfortable with capacity/resource planning and making trade-off calls under constraint.
• Genuine care for people’s development, combined with the willingness to have hard conversations about performance.

Nice to have!

• Experience managing distributed or multi-location teams.
• Previous experience in marine, defence, or aerospace.

*Salary: London up to £135,000 Per Annum*