A global SaaS company (confidential at this stage) is investing heavily in a next‑generation greenfield platform and hiring an Engineering Manager (looking after team of 6) to play a pivotal role in its technical direction, architecture, and engineering culture.This is a chance to own meaningful chunks of a brand-new product build, influence engineering excellence, and work with a team that genuinely values modern technology, continuous improvement, and craftsmanship.Pure greenfield engineering: You’ll lead the build-out of new platform capabilities, services, and APIs. Creating the foundation of a large-scale product transformation.Modern, clean, cloud-native stack: Engineers here work with Node.js/ Python, TypeScript, AWS Lambda, Terraform, API Gateway, EventBridge, DynamoDB, CDK, DockerHuge technical autonomy: You’ll shape architecture, influence system design, and drive best practice across code quality, performance, DevOps, reliability, and scalability.Engineering excellence at the core: This is a culture built around standards, testing, automation, continuous improvement, and engineering leadershipImpact that matters: What you build will directly influence globally-used SaaS products relied on by government, commercial, and enterprise clients.You will:Leading and mentoring engineers while remaining semi hands-on with modern backend developmentDesigning and delivering distributed, event‑driven services on AWSPartnering with product & architecture to define solutions and technology directionPlaying a key role in a multi-year strategic rebuild of platforms and servicesChampioning high standards across the engineering organisationYou need:Deep experience with Node.js + TypeScript in production systemsStrong background with AWS (Lambda, EC2/ECS, API Gateway, SQS/SNS, DynamoDB, CloudFormation/CDK etc.)Experience building distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and cloud-native servicesA passion for modern engineering, innovation, automation, and “building it right”£115k base salary + 15% bonusA modern engineering culture that values quality over speedA chance to influence technical direction at platform levelHybrid working (2 days in London office)Backing from a stable, global, profitable SaaS business #J-18808-Ljbffr