Engineering Manager

Closing date for applications: 13/08/2026

Location London, United Kingdom

Job typePermanent | Contract typeFull Time

Mostly Remote

You’ll spend most of your time at home, working with your team digitally. You’ll come into an office or hub at least twice a month to collaborate with your colleagues.

Managerial / Technical Lead

This is a general indication and doesn’t always reflect day-to-day responsibilities. Check the job description for full details.

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We’re building something better

This role is in NatWest Boxed

At NatWest Boxed, we’re a high performing team that’s always on the lookout for exceptional people. We encourage an inclusive and diverse working environment, where teamwork, input and collaboration is valued no matter your level.

Job description

This role is based in the United Kingdom and as such all normal working days must be carried out in the United Kingdom.

Join us as an Engineering Manager

In this key role, you’ll be leading a team of talented and creative engineers to build products

We’ll look to you to deliver exceptionally high-quality work and empower engineers to make a big impact

It’s a great opportunity to be recognised for your expertise and knowledge as you contribute to NatWest Boxed's Strategy

What you’ll do

As an Engineering Manager, you’ll be instrumental to the success of our engineering teams

Day-to-day, you’ll be:

Managing software and quality engineers in a matrixed product engineering organisation, across empowered squads

Owning technical stewardship of one or more of NW Boxed product mission teams

Ensuring your direct reports are motivated, happy and engaged to achieve high performance

Providing engineering support and guidance to mission Product Managers, Product Owners and squad tech leads

Working with our staff engineers and architecture function, to ensure your squads deliver the highest standards of technical design and implementation and that our platform is operationally excellent

The skills you'll need

We’re looking for someone with experience of building and designing scalable and performant systems and making significant contributions to the wider engineering goals of an organisation.

You’ll also have:

Experience leading teams of highly skilled software engineers to success

Solid practical and theoretical knowledge of modern software development

Excellent experience building services within a modern, cloud hosted, event driven or sourced, microservice architecture

Your benefits breakdown

Here’s a quick look at what your pay package and annual leave could look like if you get accepted for the role. We have a wide range of benefits to support you in your working life and beyond.

Tap each segment for details.

Your pay package

100% Base pay This is your base pay package that you take home every month. +10% Pension funding This is monthly funding paid towards your pension. up to +10% Benefit funding This is monthly funding paid towards a range of benefits you can choose from.

Your leave allowance

30 days Annual leave You’ll also have the opportunity to purchase up to 5 additional days off. 3 days Volunteering Take time off to support the causes you’re passionate about. 3 days Training Take time to build the skills you need to grow your career.

Total rewards package

Welcome to our Bishopsgate hub

Based only a few minutes’ walk from Liverpool Street Station, the central location of this office makes working there incredibly convenient. Everything you need is close by, so you can run errands, go to the gym, and socialise with friends and colleagues before and after work.

Bishopsgate recently underwent a multi-year refurbishment programme to improve spaces and facilities as well as become more sustainable.

Our tech stack

Here’s just some of the technologies we use.

Front end

JavaScript

ReactJS

AngularJS

Back end

Python

Java

Microsoft Dynamics

DevOps

AWS

GitLab

Google Cloud Platform

Data

Kafka

Hadoop

PostgreSQL

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