About this role
Salary: £80,000 - 95,000 per year
Requirements
- Experience managing or leading software engineering teams
- Strong knowledge of JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js and React/Next.js
- Experience with APIs, modern web architectures and AWS
- Background in architectural design and complex web platforms
- Experience with code reviews, engineering standards and CI/CD
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Experience with headless architecture, multi-brand platforms and AI-assisted development tools is advantageous
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor and develop the engineering team
- Define technical architecture, standards and the engineering roadmap
- Contribute hands-on to solution design, code reviews and key technical challenges
- Drive development best practices, testing, automation and CI/CD improvements
- Support the evolution and management of AWS cloud infrastructure
- Ensure platform performance, security, scalability and reliability
- Manage external engineering partners and maintain delivery standards
- Own the engineering direction and ongoing development of a complex web platform, including its transformation to a modern, headless and multi-brand architecture
- Work with internal developers, senior stakeholders and external technology partners
Technologies
- AI
- AWS
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- Support
- JavaScript
- React
- Security
- TypeScript
- Web
- NodeJS
More
We are an established professional services organisation in Bristol seeking a Web Engineering Manager to lead the development and evolution of a key customer-facing digital platform. This technical leadership role combines approximately 60% team management and technical leadership with 40% hands-on engineering. The position is based in Bristol with hybrid working and two days onsite. We offer a salary of £80,000–£95,000, a 10% annual bonus, 25 days holiday with long-service enhancements and a holiday purchase scheme, employer pension contributions of up to 11%, a healthcare cash plan, wellbeing and gym benefits, enhanced family leave, ShareSave, life assurance and employee discounts.
last updated 45 week of 2026