Senior Engineering Manager

About Amiqus

Amiqus is the UK’s most trusted compliance and onboarding platform, enabling simple, fast and secure access to products and services online. Whether moving home, changing jobs or looking for professional help, our software makes it easy for everyone involved.

We’re trusted by Governments, NHS, Banks and 600+ regulated organisations across sectors in the UK to help people get to work on the things that matter, faster.

Why join us now?

• We’re one of the UK’s fastest growing tech companies, ranked by Deloitte Fast50 and part of Tech Nation’s Future Fifty 2024 cohort. 
• We’re scaling sustainably, backed by external investment on a 10x plan tracking from £5m ARR, with expectations to exceed £50m ARR within four years.
• We’re purpose driven, ambitious and make an impact in the work we do which is underpinned by trust in our systems and infrastructure. 
• As we succeed, we share in our success across all levels and roles.

Our offer

• You’ll work with outstanding people across teams of up to 8-10 in a cross functional approach. The work you’ll do will be challenging but with the collaborative support of other high performing people.
• Competitive salary plus share options – build your career and make progress as we scale
• 12 development days each year, designed for up-skilling and meaningful growth – plus a learning budget to support relevant courses and development opportunities 
• Quarterly in-person meetups and team events to celebrate successes, review team performance and implement change linked to our growth plans
• Private health cover with Vitality and a suite of insurance benefits for peace of mind
• 34 days of annual leave to rest and recharge 
• 5% matched pension contribution on qualifying earnings – look after your future self

About the role

We’re looking for a technically strong Engineering Manager – someone who combines leadership, systems thinking and hands-on technical experience to guide a growing team and shape how we build our product.

You’ll:

• Line-manage up to 10 engineers through monthly 1:1s, coaching and progression support, helping them grow into confident, high-performing problem solvers rather than simple executors of requirements
• Partner closely with product managers to understand client value, anticipating needs and shaping the technical approach before problems arise
• Write, review and champion clear, pragmatic technical specifications that align with product goals
• Guide engineering standards and architectural decisions that balance scalability with speed
• Collaborate with other engineering managers and technical leads to deliver cohesive, cross-functional outcomes
• Work across multiple teams across our Adoption Pillar (building and supporting capability that will help us attract and retain new and existing clients).
• Ensure engineering alignment, shared standards, and cohesive delivery across our platform / products.
• Contribute to technical discussions and support engineers in finding sustainable, scalable solutions

We’re growing quickly and work on a cross functional basis. Sometimes you’ll need to challenge convention, make pragmatic trade-offs and stay comfortable when things aren’t fully defined. We don’t separate “product” and “engineering” – we work as one team, solving problems together.

This role isn’t about simply running ceremonies – agile facilitation rotates among engineers. Your focus is technical clarity, people growth and delivering meaningful product impact through collaboration and supporting informed engineering decisions.

Your Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end delivery of the engineering roadmap, ensuring work is well defined, prioritised and shipped predictably.
• Optimise delivery velocity and flow, improving how the team plans, scopes and executes work without sacrificing quality.
• Proactively identify, surface and remove blockers and risks, whether technical, organisational or product-related.
• Own resource and capacity planning for the team, including skills coverage, workload balance, hiring needs and succession planning.
• Set and maintain high engineering standards across code quality, performance, security, observability and operational resilience.
• Act as the technical escalation point for complex delivery challenges and architectural trade-offs.
• You won’t be expected to regularly write code, but you will be expected to understand the architecture deeply enough to support engineers.
• Support incident response and production issues when required, ensuring learnings translate into concrete platform and process improvements.
• Develop engineers through coaching, feedback and structured growth, building a high-trust, high-accountability, cross functional and team culture.

In a perfect world, we’d hire someone who has:

• Several years’ experience managing software engineers and have previously worked as a hands-on developer (ideally at a senior or staff level before moving into management)
• You’ve helped teams evolve from delivery-focused to outcome-driven, developing high-performing engineering cultures
• You’ve worked in a start-up/scale-up or product-focused environment where delivery pace and pragmatism matter
• You’re proactive, technically fluent and confident writing and reviewing specs, proposals and architecture decisions
• You think in systems, connecting engineering choices directly to product outcomes
• You collaborate instinctively – “product vs. engineering vs everyone else” isn’t how you operate
• You lead with context, empathy and trust, helping your team move fast without chaos
• You’re comfortable influencing across teams and shaping the technical direction of the product
• You thrive in ambiguity and see change as an opportunity to learn and improve

Who are you?

• You’ll have experience leading teams through meaningful growth or change, whether scaling a product, evolving an architecture, or leveling up engineering maturity.
• Are commercially aware, understanding how engineering decisions directly impact revenue, user experience and time to value.
• Have worked closely with clients, partners or previously been part of a client-facing team, and value fast feedback loops.
• Are comfortable operating between strategy and delivery, zooming out when needed but never losing sight of execution.
• Communicate with clarity, calm and credibility, especially when things are uncertain or under pressure.
• Prefer outcomes over process, and are suspicious of ceremony for its own sake.
• Are happy getting into the real-world detail when required, even when that means rolling up your sleeves.
• Build psychological safety and accountability in equal measure.
• Enjoy learning, sharing context and making the people around you better.

Our interview process

We think it’s important to have an open and transparent process. The process might vary slightly depending on role and level but here’s what to expect:

• Initial screening call with our People Experience team
• Engineering and leadership interview with our Lead Engineering Manager and one other Engineering Manager
• Product partnership interviews with the our Commercial Director and Product Lead 
• Informal group session with 3 to 5 engineers that you would line-manage or work closely with.

We think it’s important to have an open and transparent process. The process might vary slightly depending on role and level but here’s what to expect:

• An initial conversation with a member of the people experience team 
• Interview with a senior team member/hiring manager and one other team member
• Structured Panel interview and presentation for shortlisted candidates (if applicable)
• References and background checks followed by role offer

If this sounds like the role for you, you can apply via Cord here.

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