Product Engineering Technical Manager in Guildford

Overview

Are you ready to lead the technical vision of a product thats transforming care? Were looking for an experienced Product Engineering Technical Manager. This is a hands-on leadership role where youll guide a talented cross-functional team, define the technical roadmap, and ensure we build scalable, secure, and high-quality software. If youre passionate about technical excellence, clean architecture, and building technology that makes a real difference to peoples lives, we want to hear from you.

What Youll Do

• Own the technical leadership and architecture of our CarePilot, Connected Care initiative setting the vision and ensuring scalability, performance, and security.
• Work closely with the Product Manager to shape the roadmap, balancing technical excellence with commercial impact.
• Lead, mentor, and inspire a multi-disciplinary engineering squad (Software Engineers, Test Engineers, Design, Data Engineers, etc.) including line-management of the Software Engineers.
• Champion clean code, scalable design patterns, and best practices across the full SDLC.
• Write and review high-quality, testable C# .NET code (frontend and backend).
• Collaborate with product and DevOps teams to build robust, maintainable, and monitorable software.
• Produce clear, high-quality architectural documentation and technical designs.
• Drive continual improvement of development processes and foster a culture of technical excellence.

What Youll Bring

• Proven technical leadership experience for a substantial SaaS product.
• Extensive experience in enterprise software development, with expertise in C# .NET (preferably .NET 9/10) and MS SQL Server (including entity framework, stored procedures and query optimisation).
• Strong architectural and design skills able to produce clear documentation and own complex system designs.
• Frontend and backend development experience, with exposure to Blazor, or similar frameworks a plus.
• Hands-on experience with Azure services (Kubernetes, Event Grid, Service Bus, Functions, SQL, Data Factory, Databricks, AML, AKS, Fabric).
• Experience building high-throughput, high-availability, multi-tenant solutions.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to inspire and mentor a hybrid development team.
• Customer-facing experience and the ability to translate technical decisions into business impact.
• (Bonus) Experience in healthcare or social care technology, knowledge of compliance standards (ISO-27001, NHS DSPT), or SaaS product scaling.

What We Offer

• A base salary of £70,000 – £80,000 and bonus depending on experience
• Modern town centre offices in Guildford, with opportunity for ad hoc home working
• 25 days holiday
• Contributory pension scheme
• Additional perks including; cycle to work scheme, staff discounts portal and Employee Assistance Programme