Software Engineering Manager in London

Reporting to: Head of Software Engineering

ABOUT NEXGEN CLOUD: NexGen Cloud is the company behind Hyperstack, a full-stack AI cloud serving tens of thousands of customers from AI researchers to enterprises running the world's most compute-intensive workloads. We deliver on-demand and private GPU infrastructure to teams who treat performance as a requirement, not a feature. We're a tight-knit, fast-moving team working at the cutting edge of AI cloud infrastructure. We practice what we preach, equipping our people with AI at every level so we can solve harder problems, ship faster, and keep raising the bar for what enterprise GPU infrastructure looks like.

THE ROLE: This role exists because Hyperstack is scaling and we need engineering leadership that can keep pace with it. You'll lead a team responsible for building and evolving key parts of the Hyperstack platform — customer-facing product functionality, APIs, backend services, and the internal systems that keep everything running reliably at scale. You'll have direct ownership over team effectiveness, delivery quality, and the engineering standards that underpin how we build. This is a role for someone who combines genuine technical credibility with strong people management — close enough to architecture and system design to have a real opinion, but focused primarily on coaching, execution, and creating the conditions for engineers to do their best work.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING: Rather than a long checklist, here's what success in this role looks like:

• Lead, support, and develop a team of software engineers through regular feedback, coaching, performance management, and career development — building an environment of clarity, ownership, and high standards.
• Partner with Product and stakeholders to translate priorities into realistic plans and clear execution, balancing speed, quality, technical complexity, and business impact.
• Stay close to architecture, design, and implementation decisions — supporting strong engineering judgement across the team and maintaining high standards in code quality, testing, and system design.
• Support the team in building stable, production-ready systems that scale with demand — driving improvements in observability, performance, resilience, and operational practice.
• Work closely with Product, Design, and other Engineering teams to align on priorities, dependencies, and risks — communicating clearly and driving decisions in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
• Help the team make good decisions about sequencing, trade-offs, and technical debt — surfacing delivery risks early and keeping execution on track.
• Contribute to hiring, onboarding, and team design — identifying capability gaps and ensuring new joiners are set up to succeed.
• Continuously improve team processes, planning, and engineering workflows — and reinforce a culture of ownership, trust, accountability, and constructive challenge.

ABOUT YOU: We're more interested in how you think and work than in a perfect CV. You'll likely bring a combination of the following:

• Proven experience leading and developing software engineers in a people management capacity — coaching, feedback, performance management, and career development.
• Strong track record delivering production software through engineering teams, with the ability to balance execution, quality, technical debt, and business priorities.
• Solid technical background in software engineering, platform engineering, or backend systems — enough depth to contribute meaningfully to architecture discussions and technical direction.
• Experience leading teams working on cloud platforms, infrastructure products, or technically complex B2B software.
• Strong understanding of modern software development practices — backend services, APIs, testing, CI/CD, containers, Kubernetes, and Docker.
• Experience working closely with Product and cross-functional stakeholders in environments where requirements evolve quickly.
• Strong communication skills — able to align stakeholders, manage expectations, and communicate risks, trade-offs, and progress clearly.

Nice to Have:

• Exposure to GPU-intensive, distributed, or performance-sensitive systems.
• Experience 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 — incident response, capacity planning, and operational improvement.

WHAT WE OFFER:

• Competitive salary and annual discretionary bonus scheme.
• 25 days of holiday, plus public holidays.
• Flexible working arrangements (remote or hybrid, depending on role and location).
• Real ownership and autonomy, with the trust to take initiative and experiment.
• The opportunity to make a visible, meaningful impact as we scale.
• Clear career progression and growth opportunities in a fast-growing company.
• A collaborative, international culture built on trust, transparency, and ownership.
• The chance to help shape NexGen Cloud's team, culture, and future alongside ambitious, mission-driven colleagues.