Amiqus

Senior Engineering Manager

Amiqus

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: 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 & Tools
software engineering managementtechnical specifications writingarchitectural decision makingdelivery roadmap ownershipresource and capacity planningincident responsecode quality standardsperformance optimizationsecurity best practicesobservability
Soft Skills
coachingcollaborationempathyinfluencingcommunicationproblem solvingtrust buildingadaptabilitypsychological safetyaccountability