hackajob
is collaborating with Arbor Education
to connect them with exceptional tech professionals for this role.he Engineering Manager is responsible for leading and developing a cross-functional team of engineers across one or more Squads or Tribes. This includes ownership of delivery outcomes, people development, and continuous improvement of engineering practices.
The role requires strong, hands-on leadership; a deep interest in engineering and people; and a data-informed, delivery-focused mindset. The Engineering Manager will work closely with the Heads of Engineering and key stakeholders—including Product teams—to drive high performance, alignment, and a culture of continuous improvement across teams.Key Responsibilities
- Line management of engineers across disciplines (e.g. Backend, Frontend, QA, DevOps), including mentoring, performance management, and career development
- End-to-end delivery responsibility for programmes across assigned Squads/Tribes, ensuring delivery is aligned to business priorities and quality expectations
- Partner with Heads of Engineering and other engineering managers to define and refine engineering processes, tooling, and team structures
- Work directly with Product teams to ensure delivery goals are aligned, collaborative, and efficient
- Use DORA and SPACE metrics to identify opportunities for improving delivery velocity, team health, developer experience, and system reliability
- Promote and uphold engineering best practices across teams, including documentation, technical standards, and quality assurance
- Utilise team and individual metrics to support fair, transparent performance management, including setting clear goals and measurable targets aligned with engineering and business outcomes
- Actively support recruitment and onboarding, including interviewing and process improvement.
- Represent engineering in broader organisational contexts, including cross-functional meetings, leadership forums, and internal/external presentations
About You
- Proven leadership of high-performing engineering teams across multiple disciplines and levels of experience including effective performance management
- Delivery focussed with an ability to drive teams to high quality output
- Proficient in at least one modern programming language (e.g. PHP, Python etc), with a solid understanding of software engineering fundamentals
- Strong experience working in agile environments using Scrum and/or Kanban methodologies
- Hands-on experience using and interpreting DORA and SPACE metrics to guide delivery and team improvements
- Effective communication skills with the ability to influence across engineering, Product teams, and other stakeholders
- Comfortable with public speaking and advocating for engineering principles and practices
- Strong collaborative mindset with a focus on alignment, outcomes, and continuous improvement
- Experience managing complex, cross-team programme delivery involving multiple workstreams and dependencies
What we offer
Role
The chance to work alongside a team of hard-working, passionate people in a role where you’ll see the impact of your work everyday. We also offer:
- A dedicated wellbeing team who champion initiatives such as mindfulness, lunch n learns, manager training, mental health first aid training and much more!
- 32 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays). This is made up of 25 days annual leave plus 7 extra company wide days given over Easter, Summer & Christmas
- Life Assurance paid out at 3x annual salary
- Comprehensive wellness benefit provided by AIG Smart Health, which provides a 24/7 virtual GP service, Mental health support, Counselling, and personalised Health Checks
- Private Dental Insurance with Bupa
- Salary sacrifice Pension provided by Scottish Widows
- Enhanced maternity and adoption leave (20 weeks full pay) and paternity (6 weeks full pay) pay
- 5 free return to work maternity coaching sessions, helping you adapt to this new exciting time of life!
- Access to services such as Calm and Bippit (financial wellbeing coaching)
- All of our roles champion flexible working and we are happy to discuss what this means to you
- Social committees that plan team, office and company wide events to bring people together and celebrate success
- Dedicated professional development training budget (CPD courses, upskilling resources, professional memberships etc)
- Volunteer with a charity of your choice for a day each year
- Dog friendly offices!
Interview process
- Once your CV has been shortlisted by our People Team, we will be in touch to schedule a 20-30 minute introductory call. This will be a chance for you to ask any initial questions, learn more about us and the role as well as us learning more about your search and experience.
- Our 1st stage interview takes place with 2 Support Team Leads online - we use Google Meet for the majority of our video interviews. This will be 1 hour long, covering competency and scenario based questions for us to understand your experience further but also a chance for you to learn more about what you might be doing day to day.
- We would be keen to invite you in-person for our final stage interview will be a video call and will include a short role play task. The conversation will also focus around our values and mission as all Arbor employees are very much aligned to our impact led mission!
We are committed to a fair and comfortable recruitment process, so if you require any reasonable adjustments during your application or interview process, please reach out to a member of the team at careers@arbor-education.com.Our commitment is also backed by our partnership with Neurodiversity Consultancy, Lexxic who provide us with training, support and advice.Arbor Education is an equal opportunities organisationOur goal is for Arbor to be a workplace which represents, celebrates and supports people from all backgrounds, and which gives them the tools they need to thrive - whatever their ambitions may be so we support and promote diversity and equality, and actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.Refer a friendKnow someone else who would be good for this role? You can refer a friend, family member or colleague, if they are offered a role with Arbor, we will say thank you with a voucher valued up to £200! Simply email: careers@arbor-education.com
Please note:
We are unable to provide visa sponsorship at this time.
