Engineering Manager - Integrations

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Mark
43is a public safety technology company trusted by over 200 police forces worldwide. We buildAWScloud-native softwarethatpolice forces and emergency services rely on in their most critical moments, from managing custody records to dispatching officers in the field.

We'repartof a 400-person global company, but the UK teamoperateswith startup energy: small enough that your work is visible, big enough thatyou'rebackedby serious investment.

We'rehiring an Engineering Manager to provide hands‑on technical leadership for the team building integrations that make our platform work seamlessly with the systems public safety agencies depend on.

We are seeking an Engineering Manager - Integrations who will serve as the technical leader for the engineers responsible for integrations between Mark
43's core platform and mission-critical third-party systems.

You'llcombinepeopleleadership with managing delivery timelines of business-critical integrations. Shaping architecture, leading complex implementation work, reviewing designs and code, and helping the team solve difficult distributed-systems problems.

You'llpartner closely with Product, Engineering, andother technical teams to turn customer and operational needs into reliable APIs, data pipelines, and messaging layers. This is a hybrid role
requiring at least three days per week in our Manchester office
to support strong team collaboration.

• Coordination and collaboration with the US-based counterpart to ensure alignment with technology and business goals.

• Making and guiding architecture decisions across REST APIs, message queues, data pipelines, webhooks, and event-driven workflows.

• Lead the design and delivery of complex, high-impact integrations from discovery through production, breaking ambiguous problems into clear technical approaches and executable plans.

• Stay hands-on through design reviews, code reviews, prototyping, debugging, and targeted implementation work, especially on the team's most complex or high-risk problems.

• Drive technical excellence in reliability, scalability, security, performance, error handling, testing, observability, and operational readiness for mission-critical distributed systems.

• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, customers, and partner technical teams to define API contracts, integration patterns, technical trade-offs, and sequencing for roadmap work.

• Mentor engineers through technical coaching, pairing, feedback, and thoughtful delegation, helping them grow their judgement and take on increasingly complex ownership.

• Manage and support the engineers on the team through regular 1:1s, clear expectations, feedback, career development, and a healthy, inclusive team environment.

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant experience designing and operating backend services, distributed systems, and system integrations.

• Demonstrated technical leadership on complex engineering projects, including architecture, design reviews, implementation strategy, and mentoring other engineers.

• Strong hands-on experience with APIs, webhooks, asynchronous messaging, data pipelines, and technologies relevant to our stack such as Java, Type Script/JavaScript, RESTful services, SQL/MySQL, and cloud-native systems.

• Experience leading engineers through a mix of technical direction, coaching, project leadership, and people management, with the judgement to know when to guide, delegate, or step in directly.

• Prior experience in public safety, government software, or regulated domains.

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, observability tooling, and cloud-native practices.

• 28 days holiday
  plus UK bank holidays

• Private medical, dental, and vision insurance
  through AXA Health and BUPA, fully paid for you and your dependents

• 18 weekspaid parental leavefor primary caregivers
  plus a ramp-backprogramme

• Income protection
  (75% of salary) and
  death in service
  cover (4x salary), fully paid

• Pension
  through Nest with 3%…