Software Engineering Manager

Nuvion Tech; Stockport; On-site; GBP 94,000 - 127,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days PTO + statutory holidays (plus

Job summary

Nuvion Tech is scaling its engineering organisation and is creating a new leadership role to line-manage engineers across software, ML and related disciplines. You will report to the Head of Engineering and will shape people strategy through coaching, progression plans and hiring.

The role focuses on performance frameworks, career development and ensuring transparency about progression. You will lead end-to-end hiring and onboarding, monitor morale and drive DORA metrics across teams.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and running engineering progression and performance frameworks.
• Strong people-management instincts and a track record of raising the bar on hiring and onboarding.
• Values honest, early conversations over comfortable ones.

Responsibilities

• Regular 1-1s with documented goals for every direct report.
• Coaching and mentoring on growth, working practices and careers.
• Setting and running the progression framework and making documented, defensible promotion cases.
• Designing the performance framework with the Head of Engineering and assessing every engineer against it.
• Raising underperformance early and running formal processes with HR when required.
• End-to-end hiring for their engineers and building an onboarding programme (including 90-day check-ins).
• Watching morale and acting on flight risks; working with teams to standardise DORA metrics

Skills

People management

Hiring

Onboarding

Performance framework

Coaching

Job description

Our client is scaling their engineering organisation and is creating this new role. Until now every engineer has reported to the Head of Engineering; as the team grows, people need more focused support. The successful candidate will line-manage a group of engineers across software, machine learning and other disciplines, reporting to the Head of Engineering.

This is a people-focused role. Teams own delivery and Product Engineers set technical direction, so the focus is on coaching, hiring, progression and making sure everyone knows where they stand. They will design and run a performance framework that measures value delivered (not hours or lines of code).

Key responsibilities include:

• Regular 1-1s with documented goals for every direct report
• Coaching and mentoring on growth, working practices and careers
• Setting and running the progression framework and making documented, defensible promotion cases
• Designing the performance framework with the Head of Engineering and assessing every engineer against it
• Raising underperformance early and running formal processes with HR when required
• End-to-end hiring for their engineers and building an onboarding programme (including 90-day check-ins)
• Watching morale and acting on flight risks; working with teams to standardise DORA metrics

What they are looking for:

• Someone who values honest, early conversations over comfortable ones
• Experience designing and running engineering progression and performance frameworks
• Strong people-management instincts and a track record of raising the bar on hiring and onboarding

What they offer:

• Competitive salary (£110k)
• Best-in-class share options
• 25 days PTO + statutory holidays (plus birthday off)