Engineering Manager – Remote (UK-based setup).

Overview A world-leading US healthcare pioneer is expanding its UK presence, offering a fully remote and flexible environment for an experienced technical leader. As Head of Engineering, you'll guide a talented, fast-moving team building a cloud-native, API-driven platform that's transforming global healthcare. This is a rare opportunity to remain hands-on in Java code (around 20%) while shaping engineering direction, architecture, and best practices across a growing technology function.

What you'll do

• Lead and mentor a distributed team of engineers, fostering a culture of quality, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Stay hands-on by architecting and delivering core systems and integrations in an agile environment.
• Define and evolve the technical roadmap, ensuring scalability, security, and performance across the platform.
• Collaborate with product leadership to design and implement solutions that align to business goals and customer needs.
• Drive engineering excellence through modern development practices—clean code, TDD, automation, and cloud-native deployment.
• Introduce and evaluate emerging technologies that strengthen the platform's reliability and innovation.

Essential skills

• Proven experience as a senior or lead engineer, ideally stepping into or already operating as a Head of Engineering or Engineering Manager.
• Strong technical background in building cloud-based systems and hands-on backend or API development (any modern stack).
• Deep understanding of scalability, distributed systems, and performance optimization.
• Passion for mentoring engineers and leading high-performance teams.
• Track record of delivering reliable, resilient systems in agile environments.

Nice-to-have

• Experience with microservice architectures, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and site reliability engineering principles.
• Exposure to managing or scaling engineering functions in fast-paced growth environments.
• Comfortable blending leadership with technical depth in a modern cloud ecosystem.

Compensation and work style

• Salary up to £105k, with a generous benefits package.
• Fully remote and flexible work setup within the UK.