Engineering Manager - Remote (UK-based setup)
Posted 1 day 2 hours ago by Interact Consulting Ltd
Location: London, Remote
Category: Permanent Jobs
Salary: 100-105k + Pension, Flexible Working
Ref: JT/JC/5990
Contact Name: James Clarke
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Overview A world-leading US healthcare pioneer is expanding its UK presence, offering a fully remote and flexible environment for an experienced technical leader. AsHead of Engineering, you'll guide a talented, fast-moving team building a cloud-native, API-driven platform that's transforming global healthcare. This is a rare opportunity to remain hands-on in Java code (around 20%) while shaping engineering direction, architecture, and best practices across a growing technology function.
What you'll do
- Lead and mentor a distributed team of engineers, fostering a culture of quality, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Stay hands on by architecting and delivering core systems and integrations in an agile environment.
- Define and evolve the technical roadmap, ensuring scalability, security, and performance across the platform.
- Collaborate with product leadership to design and implement solutions that align to business goals and customer needs.
- Drive engineering excellence through modern development practices-clean code, TDD, automation, and cloud native deployment.
- Introduce and evaluate emerging technologies that strengthen the platform's reliability and innovation.
Essential skills
- Proven experience as a senior or lead engineer, ideally stepping into or already operating as a Head of Engineering or Engineering Manager.
- Strong technical background in building cloud-based systems and hands on backend or API development (any modern stack).
- Deep understanding of scalability, distributed systems, and performance optimization.
- Passion for mentoring engineers and leading high performance teams.
- Track record of delivering reliable, resilient systems in agile environments.
Nice to have
- Experience with microservice architectures, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and site reliability engineering principles.
- Exposure to managing or scaling engineering functions in fast paced growth environments.
- Comfortable blending leadership with technical depth in a modern cloud ecosystem.
Compensation and work style
- Salary up to £105k, with a generous benefits package.
- Fully remote and flexible work setup within the UK.