Lead and manage software and quality engineers across product squads, provide technical stewardship, partner with product and architecture to ensure high-quality, scalable cloud-native microservice delivery, and maintain team engagement and operational excellence.
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
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
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
35Job Posting Closing Date:
13/08/2026Ways of Working:Remote FirstNatWest Group City of London, England Office
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