Senior Engineering Manager

About Amiqus
Amiqus is the UK s most trusted compliance and onboarding platform, enabling simple, fast and secure access to products and services online. Whether moving home, changing jobs or looking for professional help, our software makes it easy for everyone involved.
We re trusted by Governments, NHS, Banks and 600+ regulated organisations across sectors in the UK to help people get to work on the things that matter, faster.
Why join us now?

• We re one of the UK s fastest growing tech companies, ranked by Deloitte Fast
  50 and part of Tech Nation s Future Fifty 2024 cohort.
• We re scaling sustainably, backed by external investment on a 10x plan tracking from £5m ARR, with expectations to exceed £50m ARR within four years.
• We re purpose driven, ambitious and make an impact in the work we do which is underpinned by trust in our systems and infrastructure.
• As we succeed, we share in our success across all levels and roles.

Our offer

• You ll work with outstanding people across teams of up to 8-10 in a cross functional approach. The work you ll do will be challenging but with the collaborative support of other high performing people.
• Competitive salary plus share options build your career and make progress as we scale
• 12 development days each year, designed for up-skilling and meaningful growth plus a learning budget to support relevant courses and development opportunities
• Quarterly in-person meetups and team events to celebrate successes, review team performance and implement change linked to our growth plans
• Private health cover with Vitality and a suite of insurance benefits for peace of mind
• 34 days of annual leave to rest and recharge
• 5% matched pension contribution on qualifying earnings look after your future self

About the role
We re looking for a technically strong Engineering Manager someone who combines leadership, systems thinking and hands-on technical experience to guide a growing team and shape how we build our product.
You ll:

• Line-manage up to 10 engineers through monthly 1:1s, coaching and progression support, helping them grow into confident, high-performing problem solvers rather than simple executors of requirements
• Partner closely with product managers to understand client value, anticipating needs and shaping the technical approach before problems arise
• Write, review and champion clear, pragmatic technical specifications that align with product goals
• Guide engineering standards and architectural decisions that balance scalability with speed
• Collaborate with other engineering managers and technical leads to deliver cohesive, cross-functional outcomes
• Work across multiple teams across our Adoption Pillar (building and supporting capability that will help us attract and retain new and existing clients).
• Ensure engineering alignment, shared standards, and cohesive delivery across our platform / products.
• Contribute to technical discussions and support engineers in finding sustainable, scalable solutions
• We re growing quickly and work on a cross functional basis. Sometimes you ll need to challenge convention, make pragmatic trade-offs and stay comfortable when things aren t fully defined. We don t separate product and engineering we work as one team, solving problems together.
• This role isn t about simply running ceremonies agile facilitation rotates among engineers. Your focus is technical clarity, people growth and delivering meaningful product impact through collaboration and supporting informed engineering decisions.

Your Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end delivery of the engineering roadmap, ensuring work is well defined, prioritised and shipped predictably.
• Optimise delivery velocity and flow, improving how the team plans, scopes and executes work without sacrificing quality.
• Proactively identify, surface and remove blockers and risks, whether technical, organisational or product-related.
• Own resource and capacity planning for the team, including skills coverage, workload balance, hiring needs and succession planning.
• Set and maintain high engineering standards across code quality, performance, security, observability and operational resilience.
• Act as the technical escalation point for complex…