Engineering Manager

💻 Engineering Manager – Software Engineering ☁️ Cloud | People Leadership | AI-Assisted Engineering 📍 London – Hybrid (2 days per week) 🚀 Established B2B SaaS Business | Engineering Transformation 💵 £100k – £110k 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 We're looking for:
• 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 📍 London – 2 days per week onsite 💵 £100k – £110k base salary 👥 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 interested, apply using the link and we'll be in touch.