Software Engineering Manager

TN United Kingdom; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in the engineering sector seeks an Engineer Manager to lead its backend team in Cambridge. This role focuses on people management, strategy, and mentorship, ensuring the team operates effectively and efficiently. With a diverse team of over 20 engineers, you will play a crucial role in fostering career development and motivation, while also overseeing project leadership. The position offers a hybrid working model, allowing flexibility while maintaining a strong presence in the office. This is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact within a forward-thinking company.

Qualifications

• Strong academic background in engineering, materials, or physics.
• Experience managing software engineers and leading projects.

Responsibilities

• Manage and lead a team of software engineers.
• Provide mentorship and career development opportunities.

Skills

C#.NET

SQL

TypeScript

C++

Python

People Management

Leadership

Education

Degree in Engineering

Advanced Degree (Nice-to-have)

Job description

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Based in central Cambridge, this is a key group within this multinational engineering company. The Cambridge team develop scientific engineering software used by different industries from semiconductor development to space systems, medical devices and green energy. As the group grows, they are looking to install an Engineer Manager to look after their backend team. This consists of over 20 people – most are tied to the Cambridge office, but some others are globally located.

The team produce quality software products and have strong technical ability and competence. What this role would impact is the management and leadership of the people in the team. This includes strategy and processes to enable the team to work well through motivation, career development opportunities and mentorship (from graduates and interns to seniors, leads and principal developers). Writing code would not be expected in this role, but the ability to debug and read code would be.

Requirements:

• Strong academic background including degree in engineering, materials, physics or similar. Relevant advanced degrees would be a nice-to-have.
• Demonstrable past career as a software engineer working on successfully released C#.NET based software products. Further experience with SQL, TypeScript, C++ or Python would be desirable.
• Experience in a management role, leading 10-30 software engineers of different levels. This should include providing people management as well as project leadership. Specifically, this could include mentoring junior members of the team, providing career advice for senior engineers, and providing resources for the team to do their work well.
• Experience managing a geographically distributed team would be desirable.

As this is a leadership role, applicants are expected to be based close to Cambridge and be able to come to the office at least 2 days per week. The role manages this team and reports directly to the Director of Software. Relevant personal characteristics are important (perhaps more so than technical ability).

On offer is an excellent remunerations package and opportunity to make a big impact within the company.

Keywords: Engineer Manager, Software Development Manager, Mentor, People Management, Leadership, Software Product Development, Cambridge, Hybrid

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