Software Engineering Resource Manager

Location:

Tewkesbury Salary: £40,000 - £70,0000

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SC About Penten Amio Penten Amio is a leading provider of advanced digital security solutions that power national security and resilience across the UK, Australia and our allies. Focused on solving complex digital challenges that others avoid, we embrace the impossible to deliver transformative technologies that protect those who protect us. Across the UK and Australia, Penten Amio combines a legacy of knowledge and proven delivery across secure mobility and AI-driven deception technologies.

Our work spans Government and Defence markets across civil and military applications, powering intelligent advantage on a global scale. Typical Activities This is a technical leadership role where approximately 70% of your time is spent hands-on developing software, with the remaining 30% focused on online management and developing a high-performing engineering team. Working closely with the Head of Software, you'll remain active software engineers while providing leadership, coaching and technical direction across the engineering function.

This role is ideal for experienced software engineers who enjoy mentoring others but still want to spend the majority of their time designing, developing and reviewing high-quality software.

• Design, develop and maintain production-quality software as anactive member of engineering teams
• Write, review and optimise high-quality code, primarily inreal-time C
• Produce and reviewsoftware architecture,design documentation and technical proposals
• Participate in code reviews, design reviews and engineering governance activities
• Support engineers through technical mentoring, pairingand collaborative problem solving
• Own the quality, maintainability and delivery of software solutions
• Apply modern software engineering practices including CI/CD, automated testing and secure development
• Contribute to planning, estimation and technicaldecision making across multiple projects
• Drive consistency in engineering standards,tooling and development practices

• Line manage ateam of approximatelyeight software engineers
• Conduct regular one-to-one meetings, objective setting and performance reviews
• Support career development through coaching, mentoring and development planning
• Identify training needsand help growcapability across the engineering function
• Support recruitment, onboarding and succession planning
• Work alongside theHead of Software to develop technical capability aligned tofuture business needs
• Encourage knowledge sharingand collaboration acrossengineering teams
• Contribute to continuous improvement of engineering processes, standards andbest practice

• Strong background in software engineering withthe ability anddesire to remainhands-on
• Significant commercial experience developing software inC within embeddedor low-level systems
• Experience working throughoutthe full software development lifecycle ina product development environment
• Strong understanding ofmodern software engineering practices including CI/CD, code reviewand automated testing
• Ability to interprethigh-level requirementsand translate theminto practical technical solutions
• Strong communication skills with the abilityto engage technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Experience producing and reviewing high-quality technical documentation
• Experience supporting career progression and mentoring engineers
• Ability to build, motivate and develop high-performing engineering teams

• Experience with Goor Rust
• Experience developing modernweb applications
• Python and Bash scripting
• UI development using
  
  Qt or wx Python
• Experience with automated testing frameworks suchas Robot Frameworkor