Engineering Manager

We’re looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to oversee the technical migration of a Product Information Management (PIM) system — namely STIBO STEP — from an on-premise setup to a SaaS solution. This role requires close collaboration with internal product and engineering teams, as well as with external partners.

Architecture & Technical Leadership

• Lead the end-to-end design and execution of migrating STIBO STEP from on-premise to SaaS, ensuring data integrity, robust governance, and minimal business disruption.
• Develop integration patterns tailored to STIBO’s SaaS architecture, working closely with their third-party implementation and support teams.
• Shape the technical landscape with a modern microservices and event-driven architecture approach.
• Drive the adoption of best practices, shared platforms, and sustainable methodologies to deliver high-quality software.

Stakeholder & Communication Management

• Translate complex technical details into clear, business-friendly insights for non-technical stakeholders, senior leaders, and product owners.
• Serve as the key liaison between internal product and engineering teams and STIBO’s vendor ecosystem — aligning on interfaces, customisation, and roadmap integration.
• Communicate risks, trade-offs, and delivery timelines transparently and proactively.

Product Lifecycle & Team Leadership

• Manage engineering teams through the full product lifecycle, from discovery and design to implementation, testing, and rollout — ensuring operational stability of delivered solutions.
• Provide hands-on technical guidance, support team planning, and facilitate delivery ceremonies.
• Champion engineering best practices across development, testing, observability, and operational support. Raise the team’s maturity and drive progress towards or maintain Elite DORA standards.
• Build, mentor, and manage a high-performing software engineering team. Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement, while overseeing budgets, resources, and workload distribution.

Requirements

Must-Haves

• 10+ years in software engineering and delivery, with at least 5 years in leadership, principal, or managerial roles.
• Strong expertise in PIM/MDM platforms, with hands-on experience in STIBO STEP essential.
• Proven track record migrating enterprise applications to SaaS, ideally within large-scale, complex environments.
• Deep technical proficiency in:
• Languages: Java 17+ (Java 21 preferred)
• Frameworks: Micronaut (preferred), Spring Boot
• Testing: JUnit, Mockito
• Build Tools: Gradle
• Data & Messaging: Kafka, MongoDB
• APIs: GraphQL Federation, REST
• Infrastructure & Observability: Terraform, OpenTelemetry, Dynatrace

Soft Skills & Leadership

• Exceptional communication skills — able to distill and present engineering decisions to executives and business teams.
• Experienced in managing relationships with third-party vendors and platform providers.
• Demonstrated ability to lead distributed engineering teams, drive product delivery, and provide strong technical mentorship.
• Passionate about engineering excellence and cultivating a culture of innovation.

Nice-to-Haves

• Familiarity with frontend technologies such as React, Next.js, Node.js, and TypeScript.
• Background in large-scale retail and ecommerce environments.

Benefits

We offer

• Competitive salary including self-proposed salary increases
• Flexible working arrangements
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays. After 2 years you are entitled to 1 additional day/ year up to 30 days
• Annual profit distribution
• Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, Shared Parental and Adoption leave and pay
• Enhanced pension scheme (up to 8% matched)
• Growth opportunities, including access to Udemy
• Private Medical Healthcare with Aviva
• A dynamic, innovative, and supportive work environment, where your ideas and contributions are valued
• Opportunities for professional development and career advancement within a global company
• Annual company team-building trip, Anniversary and Christmas party
• The chance to work on cutting-edge projects that are transforming the fintech industry
• Electric Vehicle leasing scheme
• Retail Discounts
• At our offices we have a wide range of snacks and drinks to keep you fed and healthy
• Conference Budget
• Cycle to Work scheme

At Mindera we use technology to build products we are proud of, with people we love.

Software Engineering Applications, including Web and Mobile, are at the core of what we do at Mindera. We partner with our clients, to understand their product and deliver high performance, resilient and scalable software systems that create an impact on their users and businesses across the world.

You get to work with a bunch of great people, where the whole team owns the project together. Our culture reflects our lean and self-organisation attitude. We encourage our colleagues to take risks, make decisions, work in a collaborative way and talk to everyone to enhance communication.

We are proud of our work and we love to learn all and everything while navigating through an Agile, Lean and collaborative environment.

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