Engineering Manager – Software Engineering
Albany Growth are exclusively partnered with an established technology business developing specialist, business-critical software used by customers internationally.
They’re hiring an Engineering Manager to lead a team of talented software engineers, helping shape engineering culture, improve delivery processes and maintain high standards across a business where software quality, reliability and performance are critical.
This is a people-focused Engineering Manager role, with a strong emphasis on coaching, developing engineers and building high-performing teams. A hands-on software engineering background is highly valued, as you’ll need the technical credibility to challenge decisions, drive engineering standards and improve processes, tooling and overall team effectiveness.
What you’ll be doing:
- Leading and developing a team of approximately 6–8 software engineers, including senior engineers
- Owning coaching, 1:1s, career progression, performance management and hiring
- Improving engineering processes, delivery effectiveness and team productivity
- Challenging senior engineers on technical standards, testing, quality and engineering best practices
- Taking ownership of engineering tooling, infrastructure practices, CI/CD and automated testing standards
- Helping introduce and scale AI-assisted and agentic engineering practices
- Working closely with Product, Design and Technical Leads to ensure teams deliver effectively
- Building a culture of accountability, continuous improvement and consistently high engineering standards
- Multiple years’ experience as a dedicated Engineering Manager, managing software/senior engineers, and ideally Technical Leads
- A strong software engineering background, with the technical credibility to challenge decisions without needing to code day-to-day
- Proven experience coaching engineers, developing talent and managing performance
- Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, automated testing and Infrastructure as Code
- Someone comfortable challenging engineering standards and driving improvements across teams
- Exposure to AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot or similar, ideally with experience introducing them into engineering teams
- Experience in regulated, high-reliability or business-critical software environments would be advantageous, but isn’t essential
People-first leadership – Lead, coach and develop talented engineers
Modern engineering environment – Cloud, IaC, CI/CD and automated testing
AI-assisted engineering – Help shape how AI is adopted across software development
Engineering impact – Influence processes, standards and team effectiveness
This is a great opportunity for an Engineering Manager who loves developing people, enjoys challenging engineering standards and wants to make a genuine impact on how engineering teams operate.
If you’re looking for a role where you can combine strong people leadership with technical credibility, engineering improvement and emerging AI practices, we’d love to hear from you.
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