Senior Engineering Manager

. Lead and grow multiple engineering teams and their managers, building a culture of continuous learning and technical excellence .

Posted 10/16/2026full-timeLeicester • United KingdomSenior💰 £60,000 - £70,000 per yearWebsite

Tools & technologies

CloudMicroservices

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead and grow multiple engineering teams and their managers, building a culture of continuous learning and technical excellence
Set long-term technical strategy with the architecture team and senior leadership, aligning engineering with company goals
Own roadmaps for complex, distributed, high-traffic systems with resilience, observability and performance at scale
Raise AI maturity across teams, progressing from prompt, context and harness practices to agentic loops and multi-agent workflows
Build with new AI development tools and drive adoption of AI development standards, including quality controls for AI-generated code
Manage AI tooling spend against delivered value and escalate tooling gaps
Manage cross-team dependencies and handoffs as agentic workflows change how work moves between teams
Lead hiring, performance management and leadership development, including managers' AI fluency
Maintain security and compliance, including governance of data accessed by AI tools and models

What you’ll need

8+ years in software engineering, including 4+ years in leadership, ideally managing managers
A degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent experience
A track record of scaling engineering organisations and landing new practices across multiple teams
Deep knowledge of large-scale system design, microservices and cloud-native architecture
Recent hands-on experience building working apps or tools with AI development tooling, and a clear view of its cost, security and quality tradeoffs
Experience balancing tech debt, reliability and feature delivery
Experience managing budgets, headcount and resourcing, including AI tooling and token spend
The influence to shape executive decisions and product strategy, and the coaching skills to grow strong leaders
Experience leading agentic workflows
eCommerce experience, especially with Shopify

Comp & perks

Private Medical Insurance with Vitality from day one - including private GP access, a 24/7 medical helpline and advanced cancer cover
Dental, optical and hearing cover
Mental health support - unlimited CBT (first 8 sessions without GP referral) and a confidential Employee Assistance Programme
20 days PTO and 6 bank holidays - plus the full week off between Christmas Eve and New Year's Day
Hybrid working
Your birthday off - a full paid day, just for you, every year
Give Back Day - a paid day each year to volunteer for a cause you care about
Bonusly peer recognition - real-time shout-outs tied to our values, with points that convert to real rewards
Clearer Together - each quarter, one employee who exemplifies our values wins a fully-funded 5-night trip to one of our global offices (Sydney, Berlin, Leicester, Irvine or Ho Chi Minh City)
Stopover - travelling near one of our offices? Once a year we'll fund a day with the local team