# Engineering Manager - Integrations

**Company:** [Mark43](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/mark43)
**Location:** Manchester, United Kingdom
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** AWS, REST APIs, Webhooks, Message Queues, Data Pipelines, Java, TypeScript, JavaScript, SQL, MySQL, CI/CD, Observability, Distributed Systems, Event-Driven Architecture, Cloud-Native Systems
**Posted:** 2026-08-07

> Leads and manages an engineering team delivering reliable integrations, APIs, messaging, and data pipelines for mission-critical public safety systems. The role combines people leadership with hands-on architecture, technical delivery, and distributed-systems expertise.

## Job Description

## 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.

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