Engineering Manager

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Our client is seeking a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead two product-focused engineering teams in a fully remote environment. This role is ideal for a technically strong leader who can balance people, processes, and delivery while partnering closely with Product and Design teams to achieve meaningful business outcomes. You will play a pivotal role in guiding technical direction, improving delivery practices, developing future technical leaders, and ensuring teams can consistently deliver high-quality solutions. The environment values ownership, accountability, strong engineering principles, and asynchronous collaboration across distributed teams. This opportunity offers the chance to influence product development at a strategic level while remaining close enough to engineering to provide guidance, mentorship, and hands-on support when needed. Key Responsibilities: Lead and oversee two product engineering teams, ensuring alignment with business and product objectives. Develop senior engineers into future technical leaders and strengthen leadership capability within the teams. Own team delivery processes, manage sprint execution, and maintain healthy product backlogs. Partner with Product and Design teams on roadmap planning, prioritisation, and execution. Coordinate and manage product releases across multiple client environments. Foster a culture of accountability, ownership, and technical excellence. Balance roadmap commitments, business-as-usual requirements, and technical debt reduction initiatives. Champion quality engineering practices, including engineer-led testing and end-to-end automation. Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to engineering teams. Drive effective communication and collaboration within a distributed, multi-timezone environment. Job Experience and Skills Required: Proven experience managing engineering or software development teams. Strong understanding of Agile delivery methodologies, sprint management, and backlog ownership. Demonstrated ability to lead product delivery across complex technical environments. Experience working closely with Product, Design, and Engineering stakeholders. Strong technical judgement with the ability to navigate architectural decisions and technical trade-offs. Experience mentoring engineers and developing future technical leaders. Excellent written communication skills with experience working in fully remote, asynchronous teams. Proven ability to deliver complex technical projects in ambiguous or fast-changing environments. Strong understanding of software quality practices, automated testing, and engineering best practices. Hands-on technical capability with the ability to contribute when required. Experience balancing roadmap delivery, operational support, and technical debt management. Ability to lead high-performing teams through growth, change, and scaling initiatives. Apply now! For more exciting vacancies, please visit: /> I also specialise in recruiting in the following: Software Developers (Back-End / Front-End / Full Stack) Mobile Developers Business & Systems Analysts BI & SQL Experts UI / UX Professionals Data & Analytics (Data Scientists, Data Analysts, Python, R, SQL, Machine Learning) AI & Automation (Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Intelligent Automation, and Process Automation Solutions) Cloud Experts Infrastructure Specialists DevOps / SecOps Experts Cyber Security Specialists SEO / Digital Designers If you have not had any response in two weeks, please consider the vacancy application unsuccessful. Your profile will be kept on our database for any other suitable roles / positions. For more information, contact: Frankie Deppe Specialist Recruitment Consultant Connect with me on LinkedIn!