Senior Engineering Manager

Senior Engineering Manager

Amiqus is the UK’s most trusted compliance and onboarding platform, enabling simple, fast and secure access to products and services online. Whether moving home, changing jobs or looking for professional help, our software makes it easy for everyone involved.

We’re trusted by Governments, NHS, Banks and 600+ regulated organisations across sectors in the UK to help people get to work on the things that matter, faster.

• We’re one of the UK’s fastest growing tech companies, ranked by Deloitte Fast
  50 and part of Tech Nation’s Future Fifty 2024 cohort
• We’re scaling sustainably, backed by external investment on a 10x plan tracking from £5m ARR, with expectations to exceed £50m ARR within four years
• We’re purpose driven, ambitious and make an impact in the work we do which is underpinned by trust in our systems and infrastructure
• As we succeed, we share in our success across all levels and roles

We’re looking for a technically strong Engineering Manager - someone who combines leadership, systems thinking and hands‑on technical experience to guide a growing team and shape how we build our product.

• Line‑manage up to 10 engineers through monthly 1:1s, coaching and progression support, helping them grow into confident, high‑performing problem solvers rather than simple executors of requirements
• Partner closely with product managers to understand client value, anticipating needs and shaping the technical approach before problems arise
• Write, review and champion clear, pragmatic technical specifications that align with product goals
• Guide engineering standards and architectural decisions that balance scalability with speed
• Collaborate with other engineering managers and technical leads to deliver cohesive, cross‑functional outcomes
• Work across multiple teams across our Adoption Pillar (building and supporting capability that will help us attract and retain new and existing clients)
• Ensure engineering alignment, shared standards, and cohesive delivery across our platform / products
• Contribute to technical discussions and support engineers in finding sustainable, scalable solutions

• Own the end‑to‑end delivery of the engineering roadmap, ensuring work is well defined, prioritised and shipped predictably
• Optimise delivery velocity and flow, improving how the team plans, scopes and executes work without sacrificing quality
  
  Proactively identify, surface and remove blockers and risks, whether technical, organisational or product‑related
• Own resource and capacity planning for the team, including skills coverage, workload balance, hiring needs and succession planning
• Set and maintain high engineering standards across code quality, performance, security, observability and operational resilience
• Act as the technical escalation point for complex delivery challenges and architectural trade‑offs
• You won’t be expected to regularly write code, but you will be expected to understand the architecture deeply enough to support engineers
• Support incident response and production issues when required, ensuring learnings translate into concrete platform and process improvements
• Develop engineers through coaching, feedback and structured growth, building a high‑trust, high‑accountability, cross‑functional and team culture

• Several years’ experience managing software engineers and have previously worked as a hands‑on developer (ideally at a senior or staff level before moving into management)
• Helped teams evolve from delivery‑focused to outcome‑driven, developing high‑performing engineering cultures
• Worked in a start‑up/scale‑up or product‑focused environment where delivery pace and pragmatism matter
• You’re proactive, technically fluent and confident writing and reviewing specs, proposals and architecture decisions
• You think in systems, connecting engineering choices directly to product outcomes
• You collaborate instinctively - “product vs. engineering vs everyone else” isn’t how you operate
• You lead with context, empathy and trust, helping your team move fast without chaos
• You’re comfortable influencing across teams and shaping the technical direction of…