Engineering Manager

Salary: £45,000 - 85,000 per year

Requirements:

• Proven experience leading and line-managing a team of front-end engineers or a cross-functional delivery team.
• Strong people management capability and the ability to build high-performing teams.
• Strong technical credibility in modern front-end development, including JavaScript, TypeScript, component-based architecture, performance, and testing.
• Demonstrable experience leading significant front-end change such as migration, modernisation, replatforming, or major refactoring.
• Strong understanding of software quality and testing practices, with experience partnering closely with QA and test roles.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills and the ability to communicate trade-offs, progress, and risks clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Preferred e-commerce or retail experience, especially in high-traffic trading environments.
• Preferred experience working with third-party engineering partners and external QA providers.
• Preferred familiarity with experimentation, CRO delivery environments, and performance-focused delivery.

Responsibilities:

• Own delivery outcomes for front-end engineering and QA, including predictable throughput, release readiness, incident and defect ownership, and continuous improvement.
• Establish and maintain strong engineering ways of working.
• Identify delivery risks early, remove blockers, and manage dependencies, resourcing, and technical constraints.
• Balance operational work with roadmap delivery and technical debt reduction to protect site stability and future change velocity.
• Steer the front-end migration programme end to end from an execution perspective, including sequencing, approach, and delivery governance.
• Set and maintain front-end standards and patterns across framework usage, TypeScript standards, state management, component structure and reuse, testing strategy, and performance best practices.
• Document key migration decisions and trade-offs and align stakeholders on the chosen direction.
• Ensure the team maintains a sustainable architecture direction.
• Line-manage and support the Test Manager to create and execute effective test strategies, plans, and scripts across releases and change programmes.
• Ensure robust coverage across exploratory, feature, pre- and post-release, integration, regression, and performance testing.
• Drive strong defect management, including triage, prioritisation, ownership, and fast resolution of live issues impacting customers and trading.
• Maintain clear release sign-off processes and communication so stakeholders understand confidence and risk.
• Question project briefs, shape solutions, and reduce delivery roadblocks.
• Translate business goals into engineering delivery plans and communicate clearly with non-technical stakeholders.
• Coordinate with third-party development and QA partners to ensure alignment on standards, quality expectations, and delivery timelines.
• Build a strong engineering and QA culture focused on ownership, quality, continuous improvement, and collaboration.
• Set clear expectations, coach performance, develop capability, and support hiring for future platform needs.
• Create a team structure and operating rhythm that reduces dependency on the Head of Ecommerce for day-to-day technology management.

Technologies:

• JavaScript
• TypeScript

Benefits:

• Discretionary annual bonus
• Staff discounts on Dreams products and other brands
• Options to buy extra holiday
• Private healthcare
• Savings and loans
• Free onsite parking
• Wellbeing support, including a 24-hour helpline
• On-site gym
• Out-of-hours GP service
• Hybrid working