Engineering Manager – Panel Systems
HybridManchester, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Own delivery for the Panel Systems team, managing scope, sequencing, and trade-offs while leading a small group of engineers building dashboards, APIs, and services for market research panels. Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development discussions to guide hiring and onboarding. Collaborate with the Tech Lead on architecture evolution, improving scalability and maintainability while establishing engineering practices in observability, testing, and incident response. Represent technical plans to Product and other teams, ensuring reliable, secure, and performant systems that support panel engagement and data collection. Work within a hybrid model requiring two days in the Manchester office, adhering to security, quality, and ISO 27001 compliance policies.
Required Qualifications
- Experience managing or mentoring software engineers, with hiring, performance, and career development
- Solid technical background in modern web and backend systems, including APIs and cloud platforms such as AWS, Serverless, Lambda, PHP, Laravel, Angular, React
- Experience and confidence in using AI tooling for general purpose and software engineering tasks
- Experience contributing to or delivering customer-facing or internal product platforms
- Knowledge of agile software development methodologies and delivery practices
- Clear, direct communicator, able to work effectively with a range of stakeholders
- Comfortable engaging with architecture, system design, and engineering trade-offs alongside your Tech Lead
- Must be available for office collaboration and team building 2 days per week
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with automation (test automation, AI-assisted workflows, etc)
- Familiarity with data privacy and governance (e.g. GDPR, consented panel data)
- Understanding of information security and compliance frameworks, such as ISO 27001
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