SaaS Platform Engineering Lead (Hybrid/Remote)

Spectrum IT Recruitment; England; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid/remote work

Salary up to 100k+ benefits

Job summary

Spectrum IT Recruitment is seeking a Software Development Manager to lead the engineering standards behind a high-growth UK SaaS platform. This role blends leadership with hands-on engineering influence across NestJS/NodeJS and Vue environments.

You will drive code quality, DevOps maturity and scalable systems while shaping platform evolution, architecture and delivery in a hybrid/remote UK setup. The successful candidate will have strong SaaS experience, proven team leadership and the ability

Qualifications

• Significant SaaS or product-led experience.
• Hands-on software engineering background (C#/.NET or JS/TS).
• Proven leadership of engineering teams.
• Experience building and operating systems at scale.
• Understanding of automated testing and QA practices.
• Familiarity with modern DevOps approaches.
• Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills.
• Ability to pick up new tools quickly and solve complex problems.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering standards for a high-growth UK SaaS platform.
• Balance people leadership with technical direction and delivery.
• Ensure maintainability, security and performance of systems.
• Shape platform evolution and architectural direction.

Skills

Leadership

Architectural thinking

Code quality

DevOps maturity

QA practices

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Tools

NestJS

NodeJS

Vue

Redis

SQL Server

Snowflake

Job description

Spectrum IT Recruitment is seeking a Software Development Manager to lead the engineering standards behind a high-growth UK SaaS platform. This role blends leadership with hands-on engineering influence across NestJS/NodeJS and Vue environments.

You will drive code quality, DevOps maturity and scalable systems while shaping platform evolution, architecture and delivery in a hybrid/remote UK setup. The successful candidate will have strong SaaS experience, proven team leadership and the ability