The PureGym Way
The PureGym Group is a global gym business with a community of more than 700 gyms and over 2 million members. At PureGym, everything we do comes back to one simple idea: helping you feel good.
We're proud of our people and have a strong focus on internal progression. Championing diversity, we are committed to providing an excellent employee experience and workplace culture. As such, we are a Disability Confident Committed employer,and offer interviews to candidates who meet the essential criteria for a role, and opt-in to the scheme on their application form.
Our gyms are friendly, supportive, and judgement-free spaces where everybody can come in, work out and leave Feeling PureGym Good. We are proud to be certified by Top Employers Institute. See our careers page for full benefits.
We offer
Free nationwide gym membership for you + 1
Hybrid working
A truly flexible working culture
Personal private healthcare, including digital GP
Life insurance x4
Company pension contribution
25 days annual leave, plus 1 personal day
Option to purchase additional holiday (up to 5 days)
Great learning & development resources
Enhanced maternity pay, paternity and adoption leave
The Role
Location: Remote
Type: Full TimeContract type: Permanent
Application: 31st October 2026
We are looking for a Software Engineering Manager to join our Team! The role will lead, develop, and grow a group of software engineers matrixed across PureGym’s delivery squads, ensuring they are motivated, progressing, and consistently delivering business outcomes at pace. Performance in this role means both: engineers who are growing in their craft and engineers who are shipping working features that move the dial for the business and retain quality. You’ll operate as the connective tissue between the individuals in the squads and the wider engineering function, holding the bar on standards, capability, and output across the teams you support.
This is a remote role, with quarterly meetings in our London Office.
PureGym’s digital platforms power millions of member interactions and are evolving at pace. As a Software Engineering Manager, you’ll be the dedicated people manager for a group of engineers embedded across multiple delivery squads, accountable for their growth, performance, and development, and equally accountable for ensuring they’re delivering quality outcomes, moving at pace, and creating real business value.
You’ll work in close partnership with the Head of Software Engineering and your fellow SEMs
Roughly, you can expect your time to split across five areas, though the balance will flex with the quarter:
~25% people leadership: 1:1s, development conversations, performance management, calibration, and hiring
~30% upstream technical partnership: acting as one of the three leads in the initiative lifecycle alongside the Delivery Manager and Business Analyst, owning the Discovery phase for initiatives, and leading or contributing to the initiative acceptance so squads can take it on and execute with confidence
~15% technical contribution: reactive support when squads need it, PR reviews, and tech debt work where you can add most value
~15% embedded delivery: one sprint equivalent per quarter contributing as an engineer in a squad, rotating each quarter
~15% engineering leadership and hygiene: big room planning, cross-functional work, NFR oversight, compliance and access governance, and operational cost management
You’ll be responsible for:
Providing dedicated line management for a group of engineers across multiple delivery squads, including regular 1:1s, performance conversations, and ongoing pastoral support, ensuring they are performing, delivering quality work, and progressing in their careers
Owning the growth and progression of your engineers through the engineering growth framework, setting clear development goals, tracking progress, and supporting promotion cases
Conducting performance reviews and objective-setting for your engineers in…