Title: Senior Engineering Manager – SaaS Applications
Job ID: #JOL-ENM-UK-101826
Location: London, England, GB
Summary
Jolly is a Silicon Valley-based software company with more than 40,000 customers and millions of users, including many Fortune 500 companies and world-renowned organizations.
We are looking for a highly technical Senior Engineering Manager to lead our team of software developers and QA testers and deliver high-quality releases of our cloud-based SaaS and mobile applications. This is a hands-on technical leadership role, not a traditional project management position.
The ideal candidate began as a software engineer and progressed into hands-on engineering leadership. You must have direct people-management responsibility – including hiring, performance management, and making staffing decisions. You will work closely with our Senior Product Manager, who defines what should be built and why; you will own how it is built, tested, and delivered. We do not have a separate project manager, so you will also run sprints, scrum boards, and the release cycle yourself.
Working Hours
Fully remote, work-from-home contract position. Our engineering teams are distributed across North America, Europe, and Asia. Working hours are flexible, with a few core overlap hours for collaboration.
Responsibilities
- Directly manage software developers (C# .NET, MAUI, MS SQL Server, Azure) and QA testers, including hiring, performance management, coaching, and staffing decisions
- Build and lead distributed engineering teams across multiple countries, ensuring effective collaboration and accountability
- Work with the Senior Product Manager to turn product priorities and requirements into technical designs, estimates, and development plans
- Plan and run sprints, including sprint planning, stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives
- Configure and manage Jira workflows, scrum boards, projects, dashboards, and reporting directly
- Own the release cycle end to end – scheduling, code freeze, QA sign-off, deployment, and post-release follow-up
- Ensure releases are delivered on time and at high quality
- Define and improve testing practices, test coverage, and QA processes in partnership with the QA team
- Understand software architecture, APIs, databases, cloud infrastructure, and development workflows
- Personally investigate, reproduce, and test product issues when necessary; do not rely solely on QA reports
- Identify technical, resource, and delivery risks and drive them to resolution
- Work directly with DevOps and support teams on deployments, production issues, and escalations
- Improve engineering processes, code quality, development practices, and team productivity
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a closely related technical field
- Must have started career as a software engineer/developer
- 10+ years of software industry experience, including 3+ years directly managing developers and/or QA engineers
- Proven record of excellent software development and technical problem-solving
- Strong understanding of modern software architecture, development, testing, and deployment
- Hands‑on experience running Agile/Scrum teams and managing release cycles without a dedicated project manager
- Able to personally test, troubleshoot, reproduce, and validate software—not simply rely on QA
- Able to configure and manage Jira independently without relying on IT or other administrators
- Proven ability to lead, organize, and develop software engineering and QA teams
- Excellent communication and execution skills in a distributed, international environment
- Solid hands‑on experience with C# .NET, MAUI, MS SQL Server, and Azure is strongly preferred
Compensation
£90,000 – £120,000 per year (approx. £7,500 – £10,000 per month as an independent contractor via your own limited company; commensurate with experience)
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