Location:
3 days onsite in Peterborough
Salary:
up to £85,000 (DOE)
Contract type:
Full time, permanent
About the role
We're partnering with a global SaaS provider to hire an experienced Senior Application Development Manager to lead a high‑impact delivery team building and evolving a core product used by thousands of customers worldwide. This role is fundamentally about people leadership - you'll manage, mentor and develop a team of 8 direct reports, shaping culture, driving engagement and enabling performance across onshore and offshore colleagues.
Key Responsibilities
* Lead, grow and coach a diverse team of engineers (8 direct reports), creating a collaborative, supportive environment where people feel empowered to learn, experiment and do their best work.
* Set clear priorities and delivery outcomes with business leaders and project/program management; balance near‑term commitments with longer‑term product goals.
* Champion Agile ways of working (Scrum/Kanban): build predictable delivery, foster continuous improvement and remove blockers so the team can ship high‑quality solutions consistently.
* Guide technical and operational decisions by drawing on your hands‑on development background; model pragmatic engineering practices and sound judgment under pressure.
* Enable cross‑location collaboration with onshore and offshore colleagues; establish shared standards, communication rhythms and quality gates that scale.
* Promote continuous learning through pairing, coaching plans, guilds/communities and measurable growth paths; cultivate a psychologically safe, feedback‑rich culture.
* Partner across functions (Product, Architecture, Security, QA, Ops) to ensure solutions are robust, secure and scalable and that customer outcomes remain front and center.
What you'll bring
* Proven people leadership in software engineering, including direct line management of multi‑disciplinary teams and a track record of developing talent.
* Agile delivery expertise (Scrum/Kanban), with experience introducing/strengthening rituals, metrics and continuous improvement.
* Hands‑on engineering background (you've shipped production software and can still dive into code or design reviews when needed).
* Stakeholder partnering skills - able to translate product vision into engineering outcomes, influence priorities and communicate clearly from executives to engineer.