Top Engineering Manager Jobs in Manchester

The Lead Engineer will guide teams in delivering high-quality, production-ready solutions, manage engineers, and ensure best practices in an Agile environment.

Lead GitLab’s Build team and roadmap, overseeing systems that convert source code into secure, verified, distributable artifacts. Own build platforms, dependency management, CI templates, supply-chain security, build consistency, observability, and self-service onboarding across delivery targets including Omnibus and CNG. Partner across teams to improve reliability, reduce coordination overhead, and support four-nines service objectives. Manage a distributed, high-performing engineering team and guide architecture, technical strategy, operational excellence, and complex project delivery.

Own the enterprise endpoint-management platform, roadmap, engineering backlog, security posture, and service standards across a multi-site retail estate. Lead endpoint platform design, provisioning, policy, application deployment, patching, compliance, and lifecycle management. Manage and develop engineers, vendors, and managed-service partners while driving transformation toward unified endpoint management. Improve device reliability, security, user experience, operational health, and cost efficiency across stores, distribution centers, and offices.

Own the enterprise endpoint-management platform and roadmap across a large, multi-site retail estate. Lead platform engineering, security, compliance, provisioning, application deployment, patching, lifecycle management, service health, and continuous improvement. Manage engineers, vendors, and partners while standardizing endpoint operations across stores, distribution centers, offices, kiosks, tablets, mobile devices, and shared devices. Drive transformation toward unified endpoint management, secure device experiences, and scalable operating practices.

The Engineering Manager will lead a team to deliver high-quality software, balancing delivery and operational excellence while fostering team growth and adopting AI-native workflows.

Lead Supabase’s Billing engineering team, overseeing people management, hiring, roadmap delivery, technical direction, partnerships, and incident response. Own systems covering subscriptions, usage-based billing, invoices, payments, taxation, entitlements, collections, and provider integrations. Build a healthy remote team, ensure predictable delivery, improve reliability and operational maturity, and coordinate with Product, Finance, Data, Support, Sales, and Partnerships on revenue-critical initiatives.

Lead and develop a software engineering team responsible for scalable backend services, APIs, data processing, and production operations. Own delivery across the software lifecycle, establish quality and reliability practices, partner with Product and AI/ML teams, manage priorities and risks, coach engineers, recruit talent, and build an inclusive culture. The role requires strong backend, cloud, distributed systems, CI/CD, observability, and people leadership experience.

Manage and coach a distributed team of Support Engineers operating 24/7. Co-own support KPIs, quality, processes, triage, escalations, incidents, and post-mortems. Remain technically hands-on by troubleshooting APIs, SDKs, and logs. Partner with Product and Engineering leadership, communicate performance, identify training needs, and improve operational excellence across customer support.

Lead Cloud Platform and SRE teams, guiding infrastructure strategy, Kubernetes operations, platform reliability, developer tooling, and technical growth. Own SLOs, SLAs, error budgets, observability, incident remediation, and secure cloud environments. Drive self-service infrastructure, GitOps, infrastructure-as-code, and platform adoption while balancing stability with developer velocity. Partner cross-functionally to communicate technical decisions and build scalable, resilient systems.

Lead a remote platform engineering team responsible for core testing capabilities. Set technical direction, modernize legacy systems, build agentic and LLM-powered workflows, partner with product on roadmap delivery, and contribute hands-on to production code. Own reliability, observability, production support, application security, engineering standards, and team development while improving system scalability and reducing technical debt.

Lead a team that integrates third-party and modular features into GitLab's Dedicated SaaS platform. Ensure high availability (99.99%+), drive operational excellence, automate toil, own incident management, prioritize via data, recruit and develop engineers, and use AI to boost productivity and guide technical strategy.

Lead the full‑stack Switchboard team owning the Dedicated tenant management control panel. Hire and develop engineers, partner with Product and Design, set technical direction, ensure cross‑functional delivery, drive quality/security/performance improvements, and operate large‑scale distributed services with strong SLO and operational excellence.

Lead and manage a software engineering team developing AWS cloud-native public safety products. Set technical direction, oversee architecture and project delivery, plan releases, manage backlogs, remove blockers, coordinate UK and US teams, and mentor engineers. Provide people management through one-to-ones, feedback, career development, delegation, and inclusive team building. The role requires strong experience with frontend and backend services, distributed systems, integrations, and modern technologies including Java, TypeScript, JavaScript, React, SQL, and MySQL.

Lead and develop an electronics hardware team delivering advanced laser and photonics products. Provide technical leadership, ensure compliance (EMC/LVD/RoHS), manage projects, resources and budgets, mentor engineers, and drive process and product innovation across multidisciplinary teams.

Manage a technical team focused on Git and Git-related infrastructure, balancing upstream open-source work with GitLab priorities. Drive long-horizon scalability, performance, and architectural projects while fostering technical rigor, ownership, mentoring, and strong asynchronous communication across distributed teams.

The Engineering Manager is responsible for overseeing project lifecycle, managing engineering issues, ensuring stakeholder engagement, and delivering engineering deliverables efficiently and safely in a regulated environment.

Manage the delivery of engineering projects, resolving technical issues while ensuring stakeholder engagement and compliance with safety and contractual standards.

Leads software engineering management and software work package delivery for complex projects. Establishes development processes, methodologies, lifecycles, and tools; plans and controls multi-million-pound work packages; manages risks, cost, schedule, and quality; and coordinates multi-site, multi-country teams across software development, integration, verification, validation, and qualification.

Lead and grow an engineering team to build and operate the M&S Identity Platform. Own architecture, scalable distributed systems, authentication journeys, deployments and DevOps practices. Drive agile delivery, technical standards, quality, maintenance, and cross-functional collaboration with product and delivery stakeholders.

The Software Engineering Manager will lead a high-performing team, oversee project delivery, provide technical guidance, and enhance software quality and architecture across the M&S Identity Platform.

Lead and develop approximately 12 software engineers across three product teams. Own engineering performance, career progression, promotions, hiring, onboarding, team health, and management processes. Coach engineers, address performance issues, improve career frameworks and review cycles, and maintain a strong remote culture. Partner with Tech Leads and the Head of Engineering while providing sufficient technical guidance to understand code and engineering discussions without owning technical decisions.

Lead and grow an 8–10-person engineering team responsible for core trading backend services, including matching engines, market data gateways, and order entry systems. Guide migration from legacy to modern systems, contribute to architecture and coding, prioritize performance and market data, adopt AI-assisted engineering practices, and partner with product and engineering teams to execute roadmaps.

Lead the Reminders engineering team, jointly shaping product direction with Product and Design while contributing technically. Coach and develop engineers, oversee hiring and delivery, promote testing, CI/CD, observability, reliability, and production ownership. Manage engineering priorities, risks, dependencies, technical debt, and stakeholder communication while fostering an inclusive, high-performing culture. The role requires hands-on involvement across full-stack, cloud, architecture, and operational work.

Leads the UK&I Data Engineering team, setting technical strategy and overseeing delivery of data products, ingestion pipelines, reporting solutions, and customer-facing capabilities. Drives Azure and Databricks cloud modernization, data governance, security, privacy, compliance, and AI adoption. Responsibilities include team leadership, talent development, workforce planning, cross-functional stakeholder management, and collaboration with global engineering, product, analytics, architecture, and operations teams.

Lead GitLab’s Security Posture Management team within Product Security. Drive governed security capability rollouts across the software estate, establish secure configuration baselines, build software supply chain security, manage risk registers and posture metrics, support audit evidence, and provide customer-zero feedback to Product and Engineering. Hire, coach, and develop the team while representing GitLab’s security practices externally and driving measurable risk reduction in a remote, asynchronous environment.