SaaS Engineering Manager - Hands-on Leader and Team Growth

Lead Forensics; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Lead Forensics is seeking a Software Development Manager to lead a section of our engineering department, delivering high quality customer-facing SaaS products.

You will coach developers, drive DevOps discipline, and ensure clean, scalable code; promoting performance, learning, and collaboration across teams in a fast-growing company.

Excellent interpersonal skills and a track record of building maintainable systems in SaaS are essential.

Qualifications

• Significant leadership experience in a SaaS engineering environment.

Responsibilities

• Set, monitor, and improve performance metrics for engineers and the team.
• Line management and mentoring of developers, with regular 1:1s and performance reviews.
• Lead recruitment efforts and support retention initiatives to reduce turnover.
• Foster a high-trust, collaborative engineering culture and drive continuous improvement.

Skills

SaaS experience

DevOps

SOLID principles

Design patterns

Hands-on coding

Interpersonal skills

Education

BSc in Computer Science

Tools

NestJS/NodeJS

Vue

Redis

SQL Server

Snowflake

Job description

Lead Forensics is seeking a Software Development Manager to lead a section of our engineering department, delivering high quality customer-facing SaaS products.

You will coach developers, drive DevOps discipline, and ensure clean, scalable code; promoting performance, learning, and collaboration across teams in a fast-growing company.

Excellent interpersonal skills and a track record of building maintainable systems in SaaS are essential.