Engineering Manager - Integrations

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on technical leadership for engineers building integrations between the core platform and mission-critical third-party systems.
• Lead delivery timelines for business-critical integrations while shaping architecture, reviewing designs and code, and solving complex distributed-systems problems.
• Coordinate with the US-based counterpart to align technology and business goals.
• Guide architecture decisions involving REST APIs, message queues, data pipelines, webhooks, and event-driven workflows.
• Lead complex integrations from discovery through production, translating ambiguous problems into technical approaches and executable plans.
• Participate in design reviews, code reviews, prototyping, debugging, and targeted implementation work.
• Drive reliability, scalability, security, performance, error handling, testing, observability, and operational readiness.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, customers, and technical partners to define API contracts, integration patterns, trade-offs, and roadmap sequencing.
• Mentor engineers through coaching, pairing, feedback, and delegation.
• Manage engineers through 1:1s, expectations, feedback, career development, and inclusive team practices.

Requirements

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant experience designing and operating backend services, distributed systems, and system integrations.
• Technical leadership experience on complex engineering projects, including architecture, design reviews, implementation strategy, and mentoring.
• Hands-on experience with APIs, webhooks, asynchronous messaging, data pipelines, Java, TypeScript/JavaScript, RESTful services, SQL/MySQL, and cloud-native systems.
• Experience leading engineers through technical direction, coaching, project leadership, and people management.

Nice to Have

• Experience in public safety, government software, or regulated domains.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, observability tooling, and cloud-native practices.

Compensation and Benefits

• 28 days of holiday plus UK bank holidays.
• Private medical, dental, and vision insurance through AXA Health and BUPA for employees and dependents.
• 18 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, plus a ramp-back programme.
• Income protection covering 75% of salary and death-in-service cover of 4x salary.
• Nest pension with a 3% employer contribution.
• Gym reimbursement for employees and partners.
• Home-office equipment allowance.
• AI tooling, including Claude Code Enterprise licences.
• Spring Health membership with therapy sessions and mental wellness tools.
• Company performance-based bonus.
• One-month paid sabbatical at the five-year anniversary.
• Biannual hackathons and a learning budget.

Work Arrangement and Other Requirements

• Hybrid role based at the Central Manchester office, requiring at least three days per week in the office.
• Applicants must be authorised to work in the UK; visa sponsorship is unavailable.
• The role may require Non-Police Personnel Vetting security clearance up to level 3.