Software Development Manager - Remote

Remote-first (UK) | Occasional travel to office | £90,000 - £110,000 + benefits I''m working with a fast-growing SaaS business to find a Software Development Manager for their engineering team. This is a genuinely hands-on leadership role: you''ll own the performance and development of a section of the engineering department, while staying close enough to the code to challenge quality and drive pace. They use agentic AI as a genuine accelerator and you''ll be leading teams where 80% of the code is AI generated. It''s a great fit for someone with a strong development background who has moved into management and wants a role where technical credibility still matters day to day. you''ll be working across a modern stack - NestJS/Node.js, Vue, Redis, SQL Server and SingleStore - with a team that takes clean code and DevOps practice seriously. What you''ll be doing Setting, monitoring and evaluating performance metrics for your developers, owning the standard of what the team ships. Providing hands-on feedback and coaching, helping developers work through challenges and hit their goals. Line managing a section of the engineering department - 1:1s, performance reviews, career development, the lot. Identifying training needs and organising or delivering learning solutions for your team. Supporting recruitment: identifying talent needs, sitting in on interviews, and helping select people who fit the teams culture. Driving retention initiatives to keep your ..... full job details .....