Software Engineering Manager – Fulfilment Expansion
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London, United Kingdom Full Time Technology Jobs United Kingdom New
Job Description
Key Responsibilities
- Build, mentor, and lead high-performing software engineering teams, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, ownership, and continuous improvement.
- Oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of complex software initiatives, ensuring alignment with business objectives, timelines, budgets, and quality expectations.
- Work closely with product management, design, programme management, and operational stakeholders to define scope, shape roadmaps, and deliver impactful business outcomes.
- Provide strong technical leadership, guiding architecture, design decisions, and engineering best practices across fulfilment systems and platforms.
- Drive the adoption of modern software engineering standards, tools, and methodologies to improve software quality, developer experience, and delivery efficiency.
- Ensure operational excellence by embedding DevOps principles and maintaining reliable, scalable, secure, and well-supported production systems.
Requirements
- A strong engineering leader with a passion for building, developing, and empowering high-performing software engineering teams.
- Previously a hands-on senior software engineer with experience across a broad range of technologies, platforms, and architectural patterns.
- Experienced in delivering highly scalable backend systems, ideally within Java-based environments.
- Extensive software engineering experience across multiple technologies, frameworks, and delivery environments.
- Strong understanding of system design, software architecture, cloud platforms, and modern engineering best practices.
Core Competencies
Demonstrates strong technical leadership in software engineering, with expertise in building and mentoring high-performing teams, delivering scalable backend systems, and driving the adoption of modern engineering practices and DevOps principles.
Highest-signal resume keywords
- Technical Leadership
- Software Architecture
- Java-Based Environments
- DevOps Principles
- System Design
ATS Optimization Keywords
Hard Skills
- Software Engineering
- Backend Systems
- Cloud Platforms
- Architectural Patterns
- Engineering Best Practices
Soft Skills
- Collaboration
- Mentoring
- Innovation
- Ownership
- Continuous Improvement
Industry Keywords
- Software Initiatives
- Business Objectives
- Delivery Efficiency
- Quality Expectations
Tools & Technologies
- DevOps Tools
- Software Development Methodologies
- Fulfilment Systems
- Production Systems
Posted August 12, 2026