Engineering manager

The role

You will lead a product engineering squad to deliver scalable platform capability. You will build and develop an inclusive engineering team while balancing people leadership, delivery, and technical guidance.

What you will do

• Building, leading and developing an inclusive, high-performing engineering squad
• Creating an environment of trust, psychological safety, continual learning and constructive challenge
• Owning the delivery health of your squad
• Partnering with product managers to align work with priorities
• Guiding technical decisions for scalable, secure, and resilient solutions
• Using metrics and feedback to improve delivery and reliability
• Recruiting and onboarding engineers

Required qualifications

• Experienced engineering manager who has led teams working within complex product or technology domains
• Strong track record of hiring, onboarding, coaching and developing engineers
• Ability to balance people leadership with delivery accountability
• Experience with a modern JavaScript and cloud-based technology stack
• Knowledge of Node.js, JavaScript and TypeScript, MongoDB, AWS, Lambda and Serverless Framework
• Clear communication skills to work with product managers, engineering leaders and senior stakeholders
• Recent, practical experience with AI-assisted engineering tools

Nice to have

• Experience in financial services, fintech, investment platforms or another regulated environment

Benefits

• 27 days holiday plus bank holidays, birthday off and paid dependant leave
• Two volunteering days each year
• Option to work abroad for up to six weeks a year
• Secclbrate recognition programme with extra pay, additional holiday and increased learning budget
• One-month paid sabbatical after eight years
• Private medical insurance with AXA Health
• Enhanced parental leave
• MacBook and up to £500 towards home office set-up
• £750 annual learning budget
• Health and wellbeing support including free therapy through Wellness Cloud and mental health support through Headspace
• Financial wellbeing benefits including Octopus Money, Octopus Share Incentive Plan and will writing through Octopus Legacy
• Perkbox with flexible points and discounts

About the company

Seccl is the Octopus-owned embedded investment platform. They build infrastructure for the next generation of investing and are expanding into Europe.