SaaS Engineering Manager: Lead Teams, Drive Quality

Lead Forensics; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Company culture

Volunteer days

Job summary

Lead Forensics is seeking a Software Development Manager to lead a section of our engineering team, shaping delivery of customer-facing products built on a modern stack (NestJS/NodeJS, Vue, Redis, SQL Server, Snowflake). You will own performance and career development for line reports and drive engineering excellence.

You should bring hands-on coding experience, DevOps discipline, and strong interpersonal skills to mentor engineers, improve processes, and recruit top talent, while maintaining a

Qualifications

• Significant leadership and management experience in a SaaS engineering environment.
• Strong background in DevOps, clean code practices, and architecture of scalable systems.
• Experience with mentoring, performance reviews, and talent development.

Responsibilities

• Lead performance management for developers and ensure productivity targets are met.
• Line manage a section of the engineering department and drive personal development.
• Oversee recruitment, retention, and onboarding of engineers, fostering continuous improvement.

Skills

Leadership

Performance mgmt

People mgmt

Recruitment

Culture

DevOps

SOLID

Clean code

Distributed systems

Security

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Testing frameworks

Monitoring tools

Job description

Lead Forensics is seeking a Software Development Manager to lead a section of our engineering team, shaping delivery of customer-facing products built on a modern stack (NestJS/NodeJS, Vue, Redis, SQL Server, Snowflake). You will own performance and career development for line reports and drive engineering excellence.

You should bring hands-on coding experience, DevOps discipline, and strong interpersonal skills to mentor engineers, improve processes, and recruit top talent, while maintaining a