Top Engineering Manager Jobs in Manchester

Manage a distributed team of senior and staff engineers developing and scaling Gitaly, GitLab’s Git storage tier. Drive complex infrastructure, performance, scalability, architecture, and maintainability initiatives while balancing roadmap and platform priorities. Provide mentoring, career development, technical guidance, and accountability. Collaborate asynchronously with Git and cross-functional teams, represent Gitaly’s technical direction, and ensure long-term platform viability through sound architectural judgment.

Leads regional solutions engineering for contract logistics across EMEIA. Designs warehouse layouts, workflows, labor models, automation solutions, cost models, and customer proposals. Evaluates operational performance, drives Lean continuous improvement, manages warehouse technology business cases, and leads implementation projects across multiple countries. The role also develops the regional engineering team, coordinates cross-functional stakeholders, supports business development, and ensures projects meet commercial, operational, cost, quality, and schedule objectives.

Lead a team building integrations between the core platform and third-party systems. Provide hands-on technical leadership across APIs, message queues, webhooks, and data pipelines; drive architecture, delivery, reliability, testing, and observability; mentor engineers and coordinate with product and partner teams. Hybrid role based in Manchester.

Leads engineering design resources and delivers compliant, fit-for-purpose solutions across a nuclear project portfolio. Responsibilities include managing qualified engineers, overseeing large-scale design delivery to time, cost, and quality requirements, applying systems engineering principles, managing nuclear safety and EHSS matters, leading improvement initiatives, collaborating with supply chain partners, and ensuring compliance with nuclear regulations, standards, and project delivery requirements.

Leads a small multidisciplinary hardware engineering team of approximately 6–8 personnel. Responsibilities include allocating resources, managing hardware development activities, defining engineering processes and lifecycles, contributing to product specifications and architecture, and delivering engineering work within cost, schedule, performance, and quality constraints. The role supports complex, regulated defense and maritime programs and requires Security Check clearance.

Manage and mentor a team of software engineers while contributing hands-on to software design, development, deployment, maintenance, code reviews, troubleshooting, and technical decisions. Lead delivery and engineering quality, collaborate with product and design stakeholders, improve team processes, and implement CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, observability, and secure coding practices.

Act as the bridge between Axis and consultant/specifier communities across the Midlands and South West UK. Build and manage A&E programme relationships, advise on product specifications, train on Axis design tools, create thought leadership, align activities with sales to generate pipeline, and collaborate with global A&E peers to share best practices.

Leads software engineering teams building search, browse, merchandising, recommendation, personalization, and consumer engagement capabilities. Owns roadmap execution, delivery planning, operational excellence, engineering quality, team metrics, talent development, and stakeholder collaboration. Drives experimentation, AI-assisted engineering, scalable services, and continuous improvement across digital consumer experiences.

Leads and develops software engineering teams building high-volume commerce services for basket, checkout, payments, promotions, taxation, order processing, and fulfillment. Owns roadmap execution, delivery planning, operational excellence, engineering quality, team metrics, hiring, mentoring, and talent development. Partners with product and technology stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable, highly available omnichannel commerce capabilities while driving AI-assisted engineering practices and continuous improvement.

Leads AJ Bell’s Integration Engineering team, owning strategic integration capabilities, ETL streaming platform adoption, and critical business process evolution. Responsibilities include developing engineers and technical leaders, improving delivery performance, supporting architecture and technical decisions, operating critical production services, and balancing product, operational, regulatory, and strategic priorities. The role combines people leadership with hands-on technical engagement across software engineering teams.

Leads the Supabase Spark engineering team by developing people, managing hiring, owning roadmap delivery, coordinating cross-team requests, maintaining service objectives, and handling incidents. The role requires technical credibility in backend and database systems, experience managing remote engineering teams, strong performance management skills, and the ability to build high-trust, asynchronous, globally distributed teams.

Lead the Enterprise Nodes & Partnerships engineering team, building secure, reliable, scalable enterprise integrations and strategic technology partnerships. Coach and develop engineers, lead hiring, guide architecture and technical decisions, align with Product and Design, and establish practices that support fast, high-quality execution. The role requires hands-on software engineering credibility, occasional coding to unblock the team, and experience scaling engineering teams in a high-growth SaaS environment.

Lead and grow a full-stack engineering team building Mural’s AI-native Compose product. Own end-to-end delivery, architecture, code quality, reliability, experimentation, and roadmap execution in partnership with Product and Design. Hire, coach, and manage engineers while maintaining a hands-on technical role through code reviews and architecture decisions. Guide production LLM feature development, including evaluation, quality monitoring, and cost management, within a remote-first culture.

Manages civil and structural design engineering for bespoke precast concrete solutions supporting energy, water, wastewater, and infrastructure projects. The role combines business transformation with technical design support, improving processes, systems, data, and ways of working. Responsibilities include interpreting customer requirements, developing manufacturable and commercially viable engineering solutions, collaborating across design, manufacturing, commercial, operations, and project teams, and supporting project delivery and stakeholder relationships.

Lead and manage a cross-functional engineering team to deliver and scale customer-facing products. Own architecture, delivery, reliability, observability, and production outcomes. Coach engineers, run reviews, improve processes and tooling, and drive technical decisions across frontend, backend, APIs, databases, integrations, and infrastructure.

Lead and manage a cross-functional engineering team to deliver reliable, scalable wealth-management products. Drive architecture, code quality, observability, incident response, and engineering culture while coaching engineers and improving processes to increase delivery speed and reliability.

Lead and manage a cross-functional engineering team to design, build, and operate production systems. Own technical architecture, delivery, reliability, and processes. Coach engineers, run reviews, resolve incidents, and drive product outcomes while balancing speed, scalability, and quality.

Leads engineering delivery across design, manufacturing, installation, commissioning, and technical acceptance for complex nuclear projects. Manages engineering queries, design changes, safety-case impacts, interfaces, risks, supplier feedback, equipment qualification, and manufacturing nonconformances. Coordinates stakeholders, ensures engineering deliverables meet plan, and supports quality and project management activities within highly regulated environments.

Lead two software engineering teams of approximately 10–12 engineers, supporting development, performance, delivery, and professional growth. Drive reliable product delivery, improve engineering processes, remove blockers, and promote accountability, psychological safety, and technical excellence. Collaborate with Product, Support, Delivery, and Engineering leadership to align roadmaps and deliver scalable financial-crime detection solutions. Engage in technical discussions without coding day to day.

Oversee engineering operations and bus maintenance at a London garage, ensuring vehicle reliability, safety, compliance, and TfL standards. Diagnose complex mechanical and electrical issues, lead engineers and technicians, manage stock and budgets, and support emerging technologies including hybrid and electric vehicles. The role requires engineering leadership, strong bus-maintenance expertise, health and safety knowledge, and relevant transport and professional qualifications.

Leads one engineering team while co-owning the product roadmap with Product. Responsible for delivery predictability, technical quality, architecture, SLOs, operational health, hiring, budgeting, and engineer development. The role remains hands-on through code reading, pull-request reviews, pairing, and technical trade-off decisions. It also drives AI tooling adoption and ensures the team ships reliably while maintaining strong engineering growth and product alignment.

Lead and grow an engineering team responsible for Affirm’s international identity platform, including KYC, user lifecycle management, and identity decisioning. Own technical strategy, multi-quarter roadmaps, architecture, reliability, availability, incident response, and operational improvements. Drive major consumer-facing initiatives, cross-functional alignment, and technical execution across Product, Design, Analytics, and Engineering teams while developing engineers and maintaining a high-trust culture.

Manages a globally distributed team of Assigned Support Engineers serving enterprise customers. Responsibilities include hiring, coaching, performance management, escalation leadership, customer recovery planning, cross-functional coordination, KPI tracking, capacity planning, process improvement, automation, and communicating customer outcomes and ROI. The role requires strong technical knowledge, including Linux administration and web application concepts, plus experience supporting production-critical environments.

Lead a multidisciplinary engineering team to design, build, release, and run international pricing platforms. Ensure operational stability, deliver high-quality cloud-first solutions, drive engineering excellence, DORA standards, and cross-functional requirements like security and performance. Partner with Product and Delivery to meet business goals and enable scalable pricing across international markets.

Lead the engineering function on a remote consulting mission by setting technical direction, managing and mentoring engineers, driving the roadmap, overseeing complex delivery, improving engineering practices, and partnering with product and business stakeholders. The role requires hands-on technical leadership, architectural judgment, agile expertise, and evaluation of emerging technologies including cloud, AI, and blockchain.