Amiqus

Senior Engineering Manager

Amiqus

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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Salary

💰 £90,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Line-manage up to 10 engineers through monthly 1:1s, coaching and progression support, helping them grow into confident, high-performing problem solvers rather than simple executors of requirements
  • Partner closely with product managers to understand client value, anticipating needs and shaping the technical approach before problems arise
  • Write, review and champion clear, pragmatic technical specifications that align with product goals
  • Guide engineering standards and architectural decisions that balance scalability with speed
  • Collaborate with other engineering managers and technical leads to deliver cohesive, cross-functional outcomes
  • Work across multiple teams across our Adoption Pillar (building and supporting capability that will help us attract and retain new and existing clients)
  • Ensure engineering alignment, shared standards, and cohesive delivery across our platform/products
  • Contribute to technical discussions and support engineers in finding sustainable, scalable solutions
  • Own the end-to-end delivery of the engineering roadmap, ensuring work is well defined, prioritised and shipped predictably
  • Optimise delivery velocity and flow, improving how the team plans, scopes and executes work without sacrificing quality
  • Proactively identify, surface and remove blockers and risks, whether technical, organisational or product-related
  • Own resource and capacity planning for the team, including skills coverage, workload balance, hiring needs and succession planning
  • Set and maintain high engineering standards across code quality, performance, security, observability and operational resilience
  • Act as the technical escalation point for complex delivery challenges and architectural trade-offs
  • Support incident response and production issues when required, ensuring learnings translate into concrete platform and process improvements
  • Develop engineers through coaching, feedback and structured growth, building a high-trust, high-accountability, cross functional and team culture

Requirements

  • Several years’ experience managing software engineers and have previously worked as a hands-on developer (ideally at a senior or staff level before moving into management)
  • Helped teams evolve from delivery-focused to outcome-driven, developing high-performing engineering cultures
  • Worked in a start-up/scale-up or product-focused environment where delivery pace and pragmatism matter
  • Proactive, technically fluent and confident writing and reviewing specs, proposals and architecture decisions
  • Think in systems, connecting engineering choices directly to product outcomes
  • Collaborate instinctively – “product vs. engineering vs everyone else” isn’t how you operate
  • Lead with context, empathy and trust, helping your team move fast without chaos
  • Comfortable influencing across teams and shaping the technical direction of the product
  • Thrive in ambiguity and see change as an opportunity to learn and improve
  • Experience leading teams through meaningful growth or change, whether scaling a product, evolving an architecture, or leveling up engineering maturity
  • Commercially aware, understanding how engineering decisions directly impact revenue, user experience and time to value.
  • Worked closely with clients, partners or previously been part of a client-facing team, and value fast feedback loops.
  • Comfortable operating between strategy and delivery, zooming out when needed but never losing sight of execution.
  • Communicate with clarity, calm and credibility, especially when things are uncertain or under pressure.
  • Prefer outcomes over process, and are suspicious of ceremony for its own sake.
  • Happy getting into the real-world detail when required, even when that means rolling up your sleeves.
  • Build psychological safety and accountability in equal measure.
  • Enjoy learning, sharing context and making the people around you better.
Benefits
  • Competitive salary plus share options – build your career and make progress as we scale
  • 12 development days each year, designed for up-skilling and meaningful growth – plus a learning budget to support relevant courses and development opportunities
  • Quarterly in-person meetups and team events to celebrate successes, review team performance and implement change linked to our growth plans
  • Private health cover with Vitality and a suite of insurance benefits for peace of mind
  • 34 days of annual leave to rest and recharge
  • 5% matched pension contribution on qualifying earnings – look after your future self

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
software engineering managementtechnical specifications writingarchitectural decision makingdelivery roadmap ownershipresource and capacity planningincident responsecode quality standardsperformance optimizationsecurity best practicesobservability
Soft skills
coachingcollaborationempathyinfluencingcommunicationproblem solvingtrust buildingadaptabilitypsychological safetyaccountability