Engineering Manager

NMI

Lead engineering teams for NMI, a payments platform, managing their growth and performance. Drive technical decisions while ensuring team productivity and effective collaboration.

Posted 6/8/2026full-timeRemote • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSenior💰 £80,000 - £100,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Manage and develop multiple teams of engineers across a wide seniority range, supporting their growth, performance, and career direction.
Lead blended teams of contractors and full-time staff, keeping each group focused, healthy, and productive.
Lead the teams through change — including driving AI tool adoption and challenging engineers to adapt how they work.
Set and defend direction on technical debt and platform investment, balancing long-term health against delivery pressure.
Act as a sounding board for tech leads — pressure-test their thinking and challenge over-engineering or over-thinking before it costs the teams time.
Partner with Product Owners and tech leads to keep delivery aligned, realistic, and well-prioritized.
Manage stakeholder relationships, communicating team capacity, progress, and trade-offs clearly.
Recruit and retain strong engineers, and build teams people want to work on.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field — or equivalent industry experience.
Proven experience managing software engineers, including senior engineers and a mix of contractors and full-time staff.
Experience delivering software in a regulated, security-conscious environment such as payments or financial services (familiarity with standards like PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOX, GDPR, or CCPA is an advantage).
A track record of leading teams through change, including adopting new tools and ways of working.
Enough technical depth to credibly challenge architecture and engineering decisions — though this is not a coding or code-review role.
A track record of leading through influence: guiding tech leads and POs rather than directing the work yourself.
Experience working with remote and globally distributed teams.
Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Annual salary of £80,000 - £100,000
Annual bonus scheme dependent on individual and company performance
25 days holiday each year (+ bank holidays + 1 day after each year of service with up to a max. of 30 days)
Workplace pension scheme
Private medical insurance (upon 30 days of employment)
7 hours per day, 35 hours per week
A remote first culture
Great work-life balance with our Flexi-time policy
Family Friendly policies (Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Pay and Shared Parental Leave).
A chance to develop with an allocated company training budget
Bike2Work Scheme
Lifeworks, an Employee Assistance Programme which offers wellbeing, family and financial support services, such as assessments, resources and even 1:1 counselling sessions. It also offers interesting perks such as discounts on gyms, restaurants, high street retailers and cinema tickets
A strong commitment to employee wellbeing including mental health first aiders
Employee referral scheme with generous financial reward
Bonusly colleague reward scheme

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Hard Skills & Tools

software engineeringtechnical debt managementAI tool adoptionarchitecture decision-makingteam management

Soft Skills

leadershipcommunicationstakeholder managementinfluenceteam building

Certifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceBachelor’s degree in Software Engineering