About The Role

Build and lead the engineering engine behind our eCommerce experience. As an Engineering Manager for Ecommerce Front-End & QA, you’ll be the day-to-day technology deputy to the Head of Ecommerce, driving both front-end delivery and test/quality outcomes. If you love turning complexity into dependable releases—while coaching teams to do their best work—this is your role.

Location: Loudwater, Buckinghamshire
Company: Dreams Ltd.

What You’ll Do

You’ll own the day-to-day delivery rhythm for our eCommerce front-end and QA function—ensuring we ship stable, high-performing experiences customers can rely on.

• Lead daily execution as the technology deputy to the Head of Ecommerce—helping translate strategy into practical delivery.
• Manage and grow front-end engineering and test teams, ensuring clear ownership, strong engineering practices, and continuous improvement.
• Improve delivery predictability by strengthening planning, estimation, and dependency management.
• Increase release confidence through robust QA approaches, smarter test coverage, and higher-quality release pipelines.
• Drive quality across the stack—partnering with engineering and product to ensure issues are prevented, not just detected.
• Maintain a stable, high-performing eCommerce experience by overseeing engineering standards, performance considerations, and operational readiness.
• Set and monitor quality metrics (e.g., defect trends, test effectiveness, release stability) and use them to guide decisions.
• Remove blockers quickly—aligning stakeholders, unblocking teams, and reducing friction in delivery.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners across product, design, and operations to align on priorities and outcomes.
• Promote engineering excellence—supporting clean code standards, sustainable architecture, and consistent delivery habits.

How You’ll Lead

This role isn’t just about managing tasks—it’s about building a team that can deliver confidently, repeatedly, and sustainably.

• Coach engineers and testers with a focus on technical growth, ownership, and collaboration.
• Establish clear ways of working: sprint/iteration planning, risk management, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure test processes and QA practices evolve as the product and platform change.
• Work to improve confidence in releases through disciplined quality gates and feedback loops.

What We’re Looking For

You’ll bring strong engineering leadership, hands-on managerial instincts, and a track record of improving quality and delivery outcomes.

• Proven experience as an Engineering Manager (or similar leadership role) leading delivery and team performance.
• Strong understanding of front-end engineering practices and how they impact customer experience and performance.
• Experience leading QA strategy—test planning, test automation thinking, and quality measurement.
• Demonstrated ability to improve delivery predictability (planning rigor, dependency handling, risk reduction).
• Comfort working with engineering stakeholders to raise release confidence and reduce production defects.
• Excellent communication skills—able to align teams, influence decisions, and keep priorities clear.
• A coaching mindset: you develop people, not just output.
• Experience working in a fast-moving product environment where reliability and speed must coexist.

Why Dreams Ltd.

We’re building technology that supports real customer journeys—shopping experiences that need to be dependable, fast, and continuously improving. In this role, you’ll have a direct impact on the quality and reliability of our eCommerce platform, while leading the teams responsible for making releases happen with confidence.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and a role that reflects real engineering leadership.
• Career growth through leadership development and cross-team influence.
• Supportive engineering culture focused on quality, ownership, and continuous improvement.
• Meaningful work—your leadership directly improves customer experiences and release stability.

Ready to Lead Ecommerce Front-End & QA?

If you’re an engineering leader who can balance delivery speed with quality discipline—and you enjoy building teams that ship confidently—we’d love to hear from you.

Apply now to join Dreams Ltd. as an Engineering Manager for Ecommerce Front-End & QA.

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