Remote Front-End Engineering Manager: Lead Teams & Elevate Delivery

McCabe & Barton; England; Remote; GBP 85,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job description

A leading Financial Services organisation is looking to appoint an experienced Engineering Manager on a permanent basis. The role is remote-first with occasional travel into the office and offers a base salary of circa £90,000 plus an excellent benefits package.

The organisation is investing in its engineering capability and is looking for a manager who can combine strong technical understanding with a genuine focus on people and engineering culture. You will lead and develop software engineers, raise engineering standards and work with senior stakeholders to improve the way technology is delivered across the organisation.

This is an opportunity to play a key role in shaping the engineering function, working closely with Product, Architecture and Technology teams to deliver modern digital products and scalable customer-facing applications.

Role remit

• Lead, coach and develop a team of software engineers
• Set and improve engineering standards, practices and ways of working
• Drive continuous improvement across software delivery and automation
• Work with Product and Architecture teams to deliver strategic technology initiatives
• Improve CI/CD, deployment automation and overall engineering efficiency
• Support the delivery of scalable applications and API driven platforms
• Help build a strong, high-performing engineering culture

Experience required

• Previous experience leading and developing software engineering teams within an Agile environment
• Strong software engineering background with experience of modern web application development using React or React Native
• Experience working with cloud platforms, ideally Azure, alongside modern engineering tooling
• Strong understanding of CI/CD, build automation and deployment pipelines using Azure DevOps, Jenkins or similar
• Experience with GitHub, Agile delivery methodologies and modern software engineering practices
• Good understanding of distributed architectures and API driven applications
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana or Dynatrace would be advantageous