Platform Engineering Manager

What We’re All About:

Any company can tell you they’re market-leading and award-winning—and sure, we are both of those things in the world of IoT connectivity! 🌍✨ But what truly sets us apart is our mission: to make IoT management seamless for any device, anywhere. With over 15 million active subscriptions across 165 countries, and partnerships with 50 mobile networks, we connect to more than 750 networks worldwide, delivering unparalleled value in the IoT connectivity chain.

We thrive on innovation and collaboration. 🚀 Even when we stumble, we learn fast and move forward together. Our solutions support sectors from healthcare and smart cities to transport and agriculture, bringing secure, resilient, and flexible connectivity to the real world.

The Role

We’re looking for a passionate and pragmatic Engineering Manager to help shape the future of our software development at Wireless Logic. As part of our engineering leadership, you’ll be responsible for leading a group of talented engineers working within one or more empowered product squads. Your focus will be on creating an environment where great engineering thrives by fostering a high-performance, inclusive culture and ensuring we deliver scalable, secure, and customer-centric software solutions.

Reporting to our Head of Engineering, our Platform Engineering Manager will work closely with Product Managers, Designers, and Engineers to drive both business outcomes and technical excellence. Your Software Engineering Manager role is a blend of people leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and engineering best practices. We need someone who can balance strategic alignment with hands-on support, ensuring our teams are productive, growing, and building products that matter.

What You’ll Do

👥 Lead & Inspire

• Line manage a team of 6 –10 engineers, supporting their development through regular 1:1s, feedback, coaching, and performance reviews.
• Drive a culture of inclusivity, collaboration, and growth within engineering teams.

🎯 Align & Deliver

• Drive alignment between engineering execution and company strategy by translating product goals into clear, actionable engineering plans.
• Provide engineering leadership that balances rapid delivery with long-term technical sustainability, guiding architectural decisions in collaboration with tech leads.

🤝 Cross Functional Leadership

• Partner with Product and Design leaders to shape roadmaps, define priorities, and make trade-offs that best serve the customer and business.
• Champion pragmatic Agile/Lean practices that support autonomy and continuous delivery, while maintaining alignment and visibility across squads.

📈 Raise the Bar

• Maintain high standards for software quality, security, reliability and scalability through clear practices, metrics, and reviews.
• Champion engineering metrics (like DORA, DevEx, SPACE) to inform decisions and drive improvement across the org.

🚀 Scale & Optimise

• Ensure teams are resourced with the right skills and structure to meet current and future product needs.
• Influence hiring practices, retention strategies, and internal mobility to build a world-class engineering organisation.

🔧 Drive Continuous Improvement

• Support experimentation, learning, and continuous improvement in engineering workflows and practices.
• Facilitate knowledge sharing and cross-team collaboration to increase organisational learning and efficiency.

The Secret Sauce (Key Experience & Skills):

👩‍💻 Technical Depth

• Solid experience in modern software development (e.g., cloud-native, microservices, CI/CD, automated testing, observability).
• Able to dive into technical conversations, challenge assumptions, and guide sound decisions.

👥 People Management

• Proven ability to coach, mentor and develop engineers at all levels.
• Experienced in running performance management, driving engagement and supporting career development.
• Track record of building and guiding high-performing Platform Engineering teams.

📊 Metrics & Data-Driven Thinking

• Skilled in using delivery and engineering metrics (e.g., DORA, flow metrics) to assess and improve team performance.

📐 Architectural Thinking

• Knowledge of distributed systems design (e.g., Domain-Driven Design), scalable architectures, and DevSecOps principles.

🌍 Culture Builder

• Committed to building inclusive, diverse teams. You lead with empathy and help others grow and thrive.

What Will Make You Shine at Wireless Logic (Behaviours & Culture):

• Collaborative by default – You bring teams together and foster trust.
• Growth mindset – Always learning, always improving, and helping others do the same.
• Low ego, high impact – You care about the outcome, not the credit.
• Resilient and calm – You stay cool when things get tough, and help others do the same.
• Respectfully challenging – You speak up, ask tough questions, and challenge the status quo with care.
• Inclusive leadership – You value diverse perspectives and ensure everyone feels heard and supported.

Your Objectives for the Year 🎯

• Grow high-performing teams – Help your engineers thrive through coaching, feedback and support, ensuring delivery and engagement stay high.
• Improve engineering effectiveness – Lead initiatives to enhance developer productivity, reliability, and system performance across teams.
• Support cross-team collaboration – Play a key role in aligning technical and product efforts, driving consistency and shared learning across squads.

Why Come Work With Us? 👋

We’re more than just an IoT company—we’re a place where people care about doing great work and helping others succeed. You’ll be supported to grow your leadership, deepen your technical understanding, and shape how modern software is built and delivered.

Benefits Of Being Part Of The Team 🎁

• 25 days holiday (+ option to buy more)
• Birthday day off
• Enhanced parental leave
• Pension Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance
• Discounted gym memberships
• Dental & Optical cover
• Cycle to work scheme
• Onsite parking
• Online retailer discounts
• Employee assistance programme

OK, I’m Interested… What’s Next? 🙌

Thank you so much for your interest in Wireless Logic Group. We appreciate the time and emotion that go into an application.

We will review all applications within five working days and contact those who have been shortlisted for the next stage. Unfortunately, due to the volume, we are not able to get back to everyone individually, so if you have not heard back from us, you have not been successful on this occasion, but we would love to stay in touch for future opportunities.

Our Engineering Manager Hiring Journey:

• Initial Call – A short conversation with our People team to get to know each other and cover the basics.
• Video Call – Share your thoughts on a few leadership and engineering scenarios relevant to the role.
• Panel Interview (Virtual / Face to Face) – Meet a few of your potential peers and partners across Engineering and Product.
• Final Interview (Virtual / Face to Face) – A conversation with senior leadership to align on culture, values, and the future we’re building.

If you require reasonable accommodation during the application and selection process, please let us know. We will work together to best meet your needs.

How we work? 🏢

We know the world has changed, and we want to offer our employees the chance to collaborate at our unique office spaces, whilst enjoying the convenience of working from home. We've adopted a hybrid working approach to give more flexibility on where and how we work. You'll find out more about what this means for this role during the recruitment process, but we are currently excited to have our employees experience our office culture as much as possible.