About the role

You will lead a team of software and quality engineers to deliver high-quality products within a matrixed product engineering organization. You will also provide technical stewardship and guidance to mission teams to ensure operational excellence and alignment with the company's strategy.

What they look for

Engineering Management Software Engineering Team Leadership Cloud Hosting Microservices Architecture Event-driven Architecture Technical Stewardship Product Strategy System Design Performance Optimization Stakeholder Management Mentoring Quality Engineering Technical Design

Requirements

The role requires significant experience in leading highly skilled software engineering teams and designing scalable, performant systems. Candidates must possess deep knowledge of modern software development and experience with cloud-hosted, microservice-based architectures.

Full description

Join us as an Engineering Manager

In this key role, you’ll be leading a team of talented and creative engineers to build products
We’ll look to you to deliver exceptionally high-quality work and empower engineers to make a big impact
It’s a great opportunity to be recognised for your expertise and knowledge as you contribute to NatWest Boxed's Strategy

What you’ll do

As an Engineering Manager, you’ll be instrumental to the success of our engineering teams

Day-to-day, you’ll be:

Managing software and quality engineers in a matrixed product engineering organisation, across empowered squads
Owning technical stewardship of one or more of NW Boxed product mission teams
Ensuring your direct reports are motivated, happy and engaged to achieve high performance
Providing engineering support and guidance to mission Product Managers, Product Owners and squad tech leads
Working with our staff engineers and architecture function, to ensure your squads deliver the highest standards of technical design and implementation and that our platform is operationally excellent

The skills you'll need

We’re looking for someone with experience of building and designing scalable and performant systems and making significant contributions to the wider engineering goals of an organisation.

You’ll also have:

Experience leading teams of highly skilled software engineers to success
Solid practical and theoretical knowledge of modern software development
Excellent experience building services within a modern, cloud hosted, event driven or sourced, microservice architecture

Hours

35

Job Posting Closing Date:

13/08/2026

Ways of Working:Remote First