NexGen Cloud - Software Engineering Manager
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Requirements
• Experience leading and developing software engineers in a people management capacity, including coaching, feedback, performance management, and career development. • Strong experience delivering production software through engineering teams, with the ability to balance execution, quality, technical debt, and business priorities. • A solid technical background in software engineering, platform engineering, or backend systems, with enough depth to contribute meaningfully to architecture discussions, engineering trade-offs, and technical direction. • Experience leading teams working on cloud platforms, infrastructure products, developer platforms, or other technically complex B2B software. • Experience working in infrastructure-heavy environments, with a strong understanding of areas such as provisioning workflows, control plane systems, orchestration, platform operations, and production ownership. • Strong understanding of modern software development practices and cloud-native engineering, including backend services, APIs, testing, CI/CD, containers, and technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker. • Experience helping teams build and operate reliable, scalable, maintainable systems, and improving engineering standards, observability, and operational readiness over time. • Experience working closely with Product and cross-functional stakeholders to shape plans and deliver outcomes in environments where requirements may evolve quickly. • Strong communication skills, with the ability to align stakeholders, manage expectations, and communicate risks, trade-offs, and progress clearly. • A pragmatic, thoughtful leadership style, with a strong sense of ownership and a focus on building healthy, effective teams. • Strong attention to detail combined with strategic thinking • Proactive mindset with a willingness to take ownership of analysis and insights • Clear communication and presentation skills • Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams • Exposure to GPU-intensive, distributed, or performance-sensitive systems. • Experience working in high-growth or scale-up environments where products, teams, and processes are evolving quickly. • Experience hiring and scaling engineering teams through periods of growth and organisational change. • Familiarity with platform reliability practices such as incident response, capacity planning, and operational improvement.
Responsibilities
• Team leadership and people management • Lead, support, and develop a team of software engineers through regular feedback, coaching, performance management, and career development. Create an environment where engineers can do high-quality work, grow in their roles, and operate with clarity and ownership. • Delivery planning and execution • Partner with Product and other stakeholders to translate priorities into realistic plans, clear scope, and effective execution. Ensure the team is delivering sustainably, balancing speed, quality, technical complexity, and business impact. • Technical direction and engineering quality • Stay close to architecture, design, and implementation decisions. Support strong engineering judgement across the team, guide technical trade-offs, and help maintain high standards in code quality, testing, maintainability, and system design. • Platform reliability and scalability • Support the team in building stable, production-ready systems that scale with customer demand. Help drive improvements in observability, performance, resilience, and operational practices so Hyperstack remains reliable as usage grows. • Cross-functional collaboration • Work closely with Product, Design, and other Engineering teams to align on priorities, dependencies, risks, and delivery plans. Communicate clearly with stakeholders and help drive decisions in ambiguous or fast-changing environments. • Planning, prioritisation, and risk management • Help the team make good decisions about sequencing, trade-offs, dependencies, and technical debt. Surface delivery risks early and work proactively to resolve blockers and keep execution on track. • Hiring and team growth • Contribute to building a high-performing engineering organisation through hiring, onboarding, and team design. Help identify capability gaps, attract strong talent, and ensure new joiners are set up to succeed. • Process and continuous improvement • Identify and implement improvements to team processes, planning, collaboration, and engineering workflows. Continuously look for ways to improve delivery effectiveness, developer experience, and overall team performance. • Culture and leadership • Reinforce a culture of ownership, trust, accountability, and collaboration. Lead by example, support healthy team dynamics, and help create an environment where people can challenge constructively and do their best work.
Benefits
• Competitive salary with annual discretionary bonus • 25 days holiday plus public holidays • Flexible working arrangements (remote or hybrid) • Employee wellbeing benefits • Opportunity to play a key role in the financial strategy of a rapidly scaling technology company • Clear career progression and development opportunities • Collaborative international culture built on trust, transparency and ownership • We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds and experiences. Our commitment to diversity and inclusion reflects our belief that diverse teams drive innovation and better decision-making.
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