Engineering Manager

Job Title: Engineering Manager

Salary: £80,000 with some flexibility for the right candidate

Location: Remote

About IMP

At IMP we help Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs) take control of their finances. Our MAT-first software is built by people who know the sector inside out. Former trust professionals, finance experts and product specialists are all part of our team. More than half of all MATs in the UK already use IMP to plan with confidence, simplify complex processes and make smarter decisions.

We’re proud to be independent, founder-led and growing fast. Alongside our award-winning products, we’ve built a culture we’re equally proud of. We are ranked as one of the UK’s Top 25 Great Places to Work for mid-sized companies. Respect, collaboration and personal growth sit at the heart of how we work. You’ll find flexibility, support and opportunities to develop here, alongside regular team socials and funded CPD.

Partnerships

You’ll work closely with partner roles, most notably the architect and product manager.

• The architect is responsible for: system level design; reviewing technical designs; technology choices.

• The product manager is responsible for: opportunity evaluation; product requirements; discovery; go to market; backlog ownership.

Key Responsibilities

Delivery

• Own capacity planning at roadmap and sprint level across multiple software delivery teams.

• Own delivery execution: manage risks, trade-offs, and dependencies between teams.

• Facilitate standard ceremonies to remove blockers, plan work, and iterate processes.

Operations

• Own operational accountability: triage production incidents, run post-mortems, and feed fixes to the backlog in partnership with Product.

People

• Develop reports against agreed goals: growth plans, development conversations, and performance management.

• Ensure the team carries the capabilities the roadmap demands: technical depth, delivery pace, and agentic engineering fluency.

Quality & Engineering Practice

• Ensure capacity is allocated effectively across features and defects.

• Drive toward a low-defect, low-debt system where further delivery is fast and the team trusts what it ships.

Stakeholder Management

• Serve as the main point of contact across the business for delivery and operational queries in your area.

• Ensure high value information reaches stakeholders, for example regarding delivery timelines, risks, and quality concerns.

Skills, Experience, and Attributes

Essential

• Proven ownership of a product area: a substantial initiative where you held delivery accountability from capacity planning through to outcomes.

• Track record of developing people.

• Clear communication across technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Agentic engineering fluency: can iterate eval standards and context conventions as team infrastructure.

• Expertise guiding Agile delivery processes.

Valuable

• Remote-first team leadership experience.

• Experience working with financial management systems such as budgeting, finance, or payroll.

• Experience working within our tech stack: ASP.NET Core, C#, SQL Server, React/TS, and Azure.

Benefits:  

• 27 days of holiday per year plus bank holidays (with a buy option up to an additional 5 days)

• Enhance Maternity and Paternity leave

• AXA Health insurance including dental, optical and mental health

• Broadband allowance

• Home office stipend

• Life assurance (4 x basic salary) 

• Encouraged and funded CPD