Overview
Engineering Manager with a background in Java development, microservices architecture, and team leadership experience. Demonstrated involvement in the local development scene (women in tech, meet ups, community engagement) is sought on a hybrid basis by a market leading professional services organisation with a technical hub based near Birmingham.
Working at the forefront of AI driven financial technology, this Engineering Manager will lead a team tasked with creating bespoke, modular applications within a cloud hosted microservices architecture to deliver robust, highly scalable solutions used by millions daily.
With a real commitment to employee wellbeing and personal development, this role offers long‑term hybrid, flexible working and a clearly defined progression path with multiple promotion opportunities and a companywide wellbeing program.
Responsibilities
* Lead a team to design, develop and deliver modular applications within a cloud hosted microservices framework.
* Collaborate to ensure solutions are robust, scalable and aligned with business goals.
* Contribute to a culture of high performance and continuous improvement.
Qualifications / Key Skills
* Strong Java development background
* Extensive team leadership capabilities (ideally with experience leading teams of 5 or more)
* Passion for helping under represented groups get into tech
* Servant leadership approach with the ability to inspire, motivate and lead by example
* Commitment to the local tech ecosystem (women in tech, tech meet-ups, etc.) is a plus
* Microservice architecture experience
* Historic strong framework exposure – Spring, Hibernate, etc.
* RDBMS experience – NoSQL, MongoDB, etc.
* Git version control
* Awareness of cloud technologies
Benefits
* Starting salary of up to £100,000
* Bonus
* Company ownership shares
* Electric company car scheme
* Long term hybrid working (2 days a week on site)
* Flexible working hours
* Four promotion and salary review opportunities each year
* Best in class physical and mental wellbeing scheme
* Private pension scheme
* Training and personal development budget and time allocation
* Wellbeing protection (death in service, critical illness cover, income protection)
* Extensive career progression opportunities
* 25 days holiday plus bank holidays with holiday buy & sell scheme
* Choice of technology
* Season ticket loan / cycle to work scheme
Circa £100,000 plus bonus – Engineering Manager – Java, team leadership, Microservices, AWS, RDBMS, Splunk, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, Git
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