Engineering Manager - contract - outside IR35

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London, Greater London, England, GBR
In-Office
Senior level
Mobile • Software
The Role
Lead and mentor high-performing software engineering teams, oversee agile software delivery, provide technical and architectural guidance, establish quality standards, manage software maintenance, and shape technical roadmaps. The role requires hands-on senior engineering experience across scalable web or backend systems, cloud technologies, DevOps, and modern software architectures.
Summary Generated by Built In

We are seeking a passionate Software Engineering Manager who will provide technical expertise and operate with excellence. Being creative, curious, and confident, you will be an integral part of our empowered, self-managing, multi-disciplinary engineering teams - designing, building, releasing, and maintaining products. You will play a key role in driving our ambition to create a best-in-class software engineering team, environment, and culture.

This is an initial 12 month contract (outside IR35) that requires you to work on client site 3 days a week in London, Paddington.


Requirements

Your key accountabilities will include:
• Team Management: Build, mentor, and manage a high-performing software engineering team. Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement within the team. Facilitate communication and collaboration among team members. Ensure budgets, people and resource allocation, and workload, balance across projects.
• Agile Delivery: Oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of software projects, ensuring alignment with business objectives and timelines. Monitor project progress, risks, and dependencies, taking corrective action when necessary. Work closely with product management, design, programme management, and others to define project
scope, goals, and deliverables.
• Technical Leadership: Drive the adoption of standards, and methodologies for software development. Provide technical guidance and support to engineering teams for complex projects. Evaluate and recommend new technologies, tools, and platforms to improve the engineering process and software quality. Work with senior engineers to develop the team's technical roadmap and support the product management team to prioritise it against the commercial roadmap.
• Quality Assurance and Maintenance: Establish and enforce quality standards, ensuring software products meet performance, reliability, and usability requirements. Oversee the maintenance and support of existing software systems, ensuring prompt resolution of issues and bugs.

Your skills and experience will include:

• Previous polyglot hands-on senior software engineer
• Experience working on highly scalable software solutions across web or backend
• Extensive background in software engineering with several years’ experience in a variety
of systems and technologies
• Experience building and leading teams of highly skilled, senior software engineers that
deliver high-quality software.
• Excellent understanding of system design, software architecture, cloud, and software
engineering standard methodologies,
• Promoter of DevOps: you build it, you run it.

Tech Stack:
• Java, Spring, SpringBOOT, Micronaut
• React, Next.js, Typescript, Angular
• Azure Cloud, Kubernetes, Dynatrace (observability)
• SQL Server, MongoDB
• Ignite, Redis

Skills Required

  • Previous hands-on experience as a polyglot senior software engineer
  • Experience developing highly scalable web or backend software solutions
  • Several years of extensive software engineering experience across varied systems and technologies
  • Experience building and leading teams of highly skilled senior software engineers
  • Strong understanding of system design and software architecture
  • Experience with cloud technologies and software engineering best practices
  • DevOps experience and ownership of building and running software systems
  • Ability to work onsite three days per week in London, Paddington

Mindera Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Mindera and has not been reviewed or approved by Mindera.

  • Healthcare Strength Company materials highlight health insurance, medical assistance, and wellbeing programs across locations, with the UK explicitly offering private medical including mental‑health, optical, and dental coverage. Country pages position healthcare as a core element of the package.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth Paid time off, sick leave, and flexible vacation policies are described as standard, with some locales referencing generous or unlimited PTO. Flexible schedules and remote options further support time away when needed.
  • Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits Flexibility, remote/hybrid work, and wellness initiatives (e.g., mental‑health sessions and onsite activities) are emphasized as part of the employee experience. Cultural perks such as team gatherings and trips add lifestyle value.

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The Company
HQ: Leicester
490 Employees
Year Founded: 2014

What We Do

At Mindera we craft software with people we love. Software Engineering Applications, including Web and Mobile, are at the core of what we do at Mindera. You get to work with a bunch of great people, where the whole team owns the project together. Our culture reflects our lean and self-organization attitude. We encourage our colleagues to take risks, make decisions, work in a collaborative way and talk to everyone to enhance communication. We partner with our clients, to understand their product and deliver high performance, resilient and scalable software systems that create an impact in their users and businesses across the world Our offices are located in: Portugal | UK | USA | India | Romania | Brazil

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