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 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.

If you’re interested, apply using the link and we’ll be in touch.