Job Role: Software Engineering Manager
Reference: BH-353p
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Remote, UK residents
Salary: Up to £115,000 per annum
About The Client:
Our client is a rapidly growing Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider driving digital transformation.
Overview:
We are seeking a proactive and technically adept Software Engineering Manager to lead and inspire high-performing, cross-functional development teams. You will be pivotal in scaling engineering operations, fostering agile innovation, and taking end-to-end ownership of development processes. This is an opportunity to lead in a fast-moving scale-up environment within the GPU cloud industry, where creativity, fluidity, and accountability are essential.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead agile engineering teams across the full SDLC, from ideation to deployment, in a collaborative and high-impact environment.
- Drive architectural decisions and development best practices across technologies like Python, React, Kubernetes, object storage, Terraform, and both Linux/Windows deployments.
- Encourage a culture of creative problem-solving, A/B testing of processes, and continuous experimentation to improve team velocity and release cadence.
- Foster a healthy, inclusive, and resilient team culture. Actively mentor engineers to grow technically and professionally.
- Lead your teams through defects in production, complex troubleshooting, and process streamlining under pressure.
- Apply a DevOps mindset with knowledge of CI/CD, IaaS, deployment architectures, and GPU-based infrastructure.
- Oversee and optimise development operations using tools such as Jira and Confluence. Take full ownership of technical processes, tech debt, and improvement strategies.
- Partner with Directors, AI Leads, and Infrastructure Leads to align software outcomes with business goals.
- Leverage your understanding of AI tooling and modern frameworks (e.g. LangChain, DeepSeek) to guide effective integration into internal platforms.
Requirements/experience:
- Proven experience leading software development teams in a scale-up or fast-growth tech environment
- Strong background in DevOps, cloud-native development, and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS)
- Experience managing complex software systems, integrating AI tooling, and building scalable products
- Experience with platforms like AWS, DigitalOcean, and on-prem setups is helpful.
- Fluency with Agile/DevOps workflows, Jira/Confluence, and cloud-native tooling (e.g. Terraform, Kubernetes)
- Excellent interpersonal, leadership, and analytical skills
- Able to creatively solve complex problems and continuously improve delivery processes
Additional/Desirable experience:
- Agile certifications (Scrum Master, PMP, or equivalent)
- Hands-on with CI/CD pipelines, database triggers, containerisation, and cloud infrastructure
- Experience with cloud GPU platforms (e.g., Lambda Labs, FluidStack, CoreWeave)
- Familiarity with software delivery in hybrid environments (cloud, on-prem, hosted)