Software Engineering Manager

La Fosse; Chesterfield; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A tech scale-up is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a platform team focused on enabling developers and improving workflows. This role involves collaboration with various teams to streamline processes and enhance the developer experience. Candidates should have strong leadership and technical skills, combined with experience in software engineering and platform development.

Benefits

Equity-like schemes

Flexible working

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineering teams (5-10 people ideally).
• Background in software engineering with exposure to cloud-native tooling.
• Familiarity with distributed systems and backend-heavy environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team focused on developer experience and enablement.
• Drive engineering effectiveness by improving tooling and processes.
• Collaborate with Product and Technical Leads to shape roadmaps.

Skills

Leadership

Technical Architecture

Developer Enablement

Cloud-Native Tooling

Tools

GitLab

Kafka

Grafana

Job description

Engineering Manager - Platform / Developer Enablement

Location: Remote (UK-based) Salary: Up to £100,000

Help shape the future of global IoT connectivity.

Our client is a fast-growing tech scale-up operating at the heart of global IoT infrastructure. With millions of connected devices across 165+ countries and integration with hundreds of networks worldwide, they’re enabling organisations across industries to connect, manage and scale their devices with confidence.

Following a period of rapid international growth and team expansion, they’re evolving how engineering and product teams operate - moving to a more customer-centric, product-led model that’s already driving tangible outcomes. To help power this next phase, they’re hiring an Engineering Manager to lead and grow one of their platform teams focused on developer experience and enablement.

What You’ll Be Doing

As an Engineering Manager, you'll be responsible for leading a squad working on internal platforms and tooling that empower product teams to build, ship and scale software more efficiently. This includes streamlining CI/CD pipelines, standardising observability practices, and supporting the wider engineering organisation with secure and scalable development environments.

You'll also:

Line manage a team of software engineers, supporting their growth through coaching, feedback and regular career development check-ins. Collaborate with Product and Technical Leads to shape roadmaps, balance priorities, and ensure alignment with broader strategic goals. Drive engineering effectiveness by removing bottlenecks, improving tooling, and enabling teams to move fast without compromising quality or security. Contribute to architectural discussions and be a key voice in technical decision-making – especially where cross-cutting concerns are involved. Partner with Delivery Managers and Engineering Leadership to ensure goals are met and value is delivered sustainably and predictably.

About You

We’re looking for someone who brings a mix of technical depth and people leadership. You don’t need to be hands-on day-to-day, but you should feel comfortable engaging in conversations about architecture, system design, and trade-offs - especially within distributed systems and backend-heavy environments.

You’ll bring:

Experience leading engineering teams (5-10 people ideally), particularly in platform or developer enablement roles. Experience in/leading teams within DevEx/Developer Enablement/Developer Experience. A background in software engineering, with exposure to cloud-native tooling, microservices, and event-driven architectures. Familiarity with tools like GitLab, Kafka, and monitoring solutions like Grafana (or similar). A strong understanding of building internal platforms that improve developer workflows, CI/CD processes, and observability. A thoughtful, empathetic leadership style that balances performance with people development. Previous involvement in hiring, onboarding, and career progression of engineers.

Bonus if you’ve:

Helped build or scale a new function (e.g. Data or AI Engineering). Experience with telecoms, connectivity platforms, or IoT ecosystems.

Why Join?

Play a key role in shaping the engineering culture and structure within a high-growth international company. Lead meaningful projects that improve how software teams work and deliver. Join a company on the cutting edge of IoT, PE-backed and set-up for long-term impact. Remote working – typically 1 day/month in the office (based in the South East, moving to Reading soon). Competitive salary up to £100,000 (plus access to long-term value creation via equity-like schemes).