Software Engineering Manager - Flex

About the role

ENSEK is looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a team within the Flex platform, shaping product development and engineering culture. Reporting to the Engineering Director, you will create a high‑performing environment where engineers thrive, grow, and deliver valuable outcomes for customers.

Key responsibilities

• Hire and develop exceptional talent, conduct meaningful 1:1s, and foster a culture of ownership and high standards.
• Own sprint planning, backlog prioritisation and execution in partnership with Product to deliver high‑quality features at pace.
• Champion best‑in‑class design, testing, code review and CI/CD practices to ensure maintainable, dependable software.
• Provide technical leadership on architecture, make pragmatic trade‑offs, and collaborate with architects and SRE on scalable, secure systems.
• Work closely with Product, UX, Data and SRE to define clear acceptance criteria and coordinate smooth releases.
• Ensure operational excellence through on‑call readiness, blameless post‑incident reviews, runbooks, monitoring and SLIs/SLOs.
• Drive continuous improvement by removing friction, automating processes and fostering a culture of experimentation.

Required profile

• 3+ years of engineering management experience with a track record of hiring, coaching and developing teams.
• Strong background in shipping production micro‑services or cloud‑native applications, preferably on AWS.
• Hands‑on experience with DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code and container orchestration (Kubernetes or equivalent).
• Proven ability to influence stakeholders across product, design, SRE and senior leadership.

Required skills

• Modern programming languages such as Java, Kotlin, Python, Go or C#.
• Cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and micro‑service architecture.
• Kubernetes or equivalent container orchestration.
• CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, automated testing and quality engineering.
• Observability, monitoring, logging and incident response practices.

What we offer

• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, with option to buy or sell 5 extra days.
• Vitality health insurance, private healthcare, virtual GP, mental‑health support and 50% gym membership discount.
• Pension with 5% matched contribution.
• Remote‑first working environment with offices in London and Nottingham.
• Regular team‑wide and company‑wide events, plus 2 volunteering days per year.