Top Engineering Manager Jobs in Glasgow

The Engineering Manager provides technical assurance, oversees engineering design and implementation, manages requirements and compliance, and supports project delivery in a regulated nuclear and defence environment. Responsibilities include mentoring engineering teams, conducting competency assessments, managing consultants and contractors, reviewing documentation, chairing design reviews, coordinating with BIM/CAD teams, supporting planning and optioneering, and ensuring safety, quality, security, and regulatory standards are met.

Leads multidisciplinary engineering teams across the full project lifecycle, from project definition and FEED through detailed design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover. Ensures quality, safety, regulatory compliance, cost, and schedule performance while coordinating technical decisions, requirements capture, design governance, stakeholders, and project delivery under NEC commercial arrangements.

Lead Salesforce and Node.js architecture, scalability, performance, security, and engineering excellence for enterprise applications. Manage and mentor a team of 10–15 engineers, set goals, conduct one-on-ones, hire talent, remove blockers, and partner with Product and Engineering leadership. Drive technical direction, integrations, deployment processes, developer experience, and reliable roadmap delivery across Salesforce and AWS-based services.

Lead the Algorithms engineering team responsible for RoomPriceGenie’s pricing, forecasting, and data pipeline systems. Own delivery, reliability, technical quality, hiring, performance management, and team development. Partner with Product to shape priorities, validate outcomes through backtesting and quality metrics, and drive engineering improvements across the organization. Provide architectural guidance, design and code reviews, and occasional hands-on support while building a high-performing, accountable team.

Leads an engineering team responsible for delivering and scaling Olo’s restaurant technology platform. Manages engineering projects, technical debt, product roadmaps, system quality, performance, and major technical escalations. The role includes hiring, mentoring, performance management, process improvement, cross-functional collaboration, stakeholder engagement, and ensuring reliable, scalable solutions aligned with business objectives.

Leads multiple software engineering teams within corporate technology, providing technical coaching, setting delivery standards, managing stakeholders, and coordinating cross-team dependencies. Oversees end-to-end delivery of data-intensive products using Python, Spark, and Databricks. Drives responsible adoption of AI-assisted engineering and SDLC automation while ensuring secure, compliant, resilient, and high-quality software delivery in a financial services environment.

Leads a remote engineering team building scalable Python and Golang microservices for Canonical’s software distribution marketplaces. Responsibilities include mentoring and developing engineers, managing delivery and expectations, shaping technical strategy and roadmaps, reviewing code, guiding architecture, maintaining engineering quality, and collaborating with product managers, architects, other teams, open-source contributors, and commercial partners.

Manage and develop a distributed team of backend and frontend engineers working on observability collection products, including Fleet Management, Kubernetes Monitoring Helm Chart, and Instrumentation Hub. Partner with product, engineering leadership, and go-to-market teams to deliver customer-focused solutions. Guide projects from ideation through launch, foster psychological safety and continuous improvement, and contribute across team boundaries.

Lead and mentor a cross-functional engineering team building growth-critical platforms, AI-driven tools, automations, and user engagement systems. Partner with Product and Design to prioritize work, guide architecture, improve processes, and deliver reliable production features. The role combines people leadership with hands-on backend software development, technical decision-making, stakeholder communication, and team enablement across distributed time zones.

Lead GitLab’s Build team and roadmap, overseeing systems that convert source code into secure, verified, distributable artifacts. Own build platforms, dependency management, CI templates, supply-chain security, build consistency, observability, and self-service onboarding across delivery targets including Omnibus and CNG. Partner across teams to improve reliability, reduce coordination overhead, and support four-nines service objectives. Manage a distributed, high-performing engineering team and guide architecture, technical strategy, operational excellence, and complex project delivery.

The Engineering Manager will lead a team to deliver high-quality software, balancing delivery and operational excellence while fostering team growth and adopting AI-native workflows.

Lead and grow a compiler, kernel, and runtime engineering team responsible for accelerator bring-up across the Modular stack. Drive technical direction, architecture, coding, roadmap delivery, vendor partnerships, SOWs, milestones, cross-team dependencies, hiring, and production-quality model deployment across diverse hardware platforms.

Leads and develops a distributed engineering team through performance reviews, coaching, mentoring, feedback, and career planning. Manages cross-functional squad collaboration, facilitates retrospectives and check-ins, represents engineering in organizational discussions, and promotes accountability and continuous improvement. Provides technical oversight across client projects, identifies knowledge gaps, guides training, and supports engineering best practices, particularly in WordPress and emerging technologies.

Leads engineering teams across people, product, and technical delivery. Manages approximately 7–10 engineers, supports career development through coaching and feedback, ensures engineering excellence, partners with technical and product leaders, drives delivery outcomes, communicates with stakeholders, and contributes to organization-wide engineering practices. The role requires prior software engineering experience, strong technical judgment, delivery leadership, autonomy, and the ability to build and motivate high-performing teams.

Lead and develop a hands-on engineering team building Azure-based revenue management SaaS. Responsibilities include coding, code review, architecture, technical standards, roadmap delivery, hiring, performance management, career development, and cross-functional collaboration. The manager owns team commitments, delivery quality, continuous improvement, and engineering alignment with business goals while applying AI-augmented development practices.

Lead Supabase’s Billing engineering team, overseeing people management, hiring, roadmap delivery, technical direction, partnerships, and incident response. Own systems covering subscriptions, usage-based billing, invoices, payments, taxation, entitlements, collections, and provider integrations. Build a healthy remote team, ensure predictable delivery, improve reliability and operational maturity, and coordinate with Product, Finance, Data, Support, Sales, and Partnerships on revenue-critical initiatives.

Lead and develop a software engineering team responsible for scalable backend services, APIs, data processing, and production operations. Own delivery across the software lifecycle, establish quality and reliability practices, partner with Product and AI/ML teams, manage priorities and risks, coach engineers, recruit talent, and build an inclusive culture. The role requires strong backend, cloud, distributed systems, CI/CD, observability, and people leadership experience.

Leads and develops a high-performing software engineering team while contributing hands-on to secure, scalable production systems. Oversees hiring, coaching, performance development, code development and review, automation, operational stability, architecture evaluations, vendor collaboration, and cross-team coordination. The role focuses on building a managed cloud infrastructure platform using cloud-native and platform engineering practices.

Lead Cloud Platform and SRE teams, guiding infrastructure strategy, Kubernetes operations, platform reliability, developer tooling, and technical growth. Own SLOs, SLAs, error budgets, observability, incident remediation, and secure cloud environments. Drive self-service infrastructure, GitOps, infrastructure-as-code, and platform adoption while balancing stability with developer velocity. Partner cross-functionally to communicate technical decisions and build scalable, resilient systems.

Lead a remote platform engineering team responsible for core testing capabilities. Set technical direction, modernize legacy systems, build agentic and LLM-powered workflows, partner with product on roadmap delivery, and contribute hands-on to production code. Own reliability, observability, production support, application security, engineering standards, and team development while improving system scalability and reducing technical debt.

Lead a team that integrates third-party and modular features into GitLab's Dedicated SaaS platform. Ensure high availability (99.99%+), drive operational excellence, automate toil, own incident management, prioritize via data, recruit and develop engineers, and use AI to boost productivity and guide technical strategy.

Lead the full‑stack Switchboard team owning the Dedicated tenant management control panel. Hire and develop engineers, partner with Product and Design, set technical direction, ensure cross‑functional delivery, drive quality/security/performance improvements, and operate large‑scale distributed services with strong SLO and operational excellence.

Manage a technical team focused on Git and Git-related infrastructure, balancing upstream open-source work with GitLab priorities. Drive long-horizon scalability, performance, and architectural projects while fostering technical rigor, ownership, mentoring, and strong asynchronous communication across distributed teams.

Lead and develop approximately 12 software engineers across three product teams. Own engineering performance, career progression, promotions, hiring, onboarding, team health, and management processes. Coach engineers, address performance issues, improve career frameworks and review cycles, and maintain a strong remote culture. Partner with Tech Leads and the Head of Engineering while providing sufficient technical guidance to understand code and engineering discussions without owning technical decisions.

Lead and grow an 8–10-person engineering team responsible for core trading backend services, including matching engines, market data gateways, and order entry systems. Guide migration from legacy to modern systems, contribute to architecture and coding, prioritize performance and market data, adopt AI-assisted engineering practices, and partner with product and engineering teams to execute roadmaps.