Engineering Team Lead

The role

You will build and lead a high-performing engineering team. You will own quarterly objectives, direct report growth, and day-to-day culture while staying hands-on in software development.

What you will do

• Provide mentorship, constructive feedback, and foster a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement
• Address underperformance decisively and advocate for reports in calibration and promotion
• Motivate the team, remove blockers, and track performance to ensure accountability
• Work closely with Product, QA, and Technical Leaders to align on strategy and execution
• Ensure clear, open communication in remote, hybrid, and in-person settings
• Identify and mitigate risks, addressing challenges proactively
• Own the holistic health of your team across people, process, and quality
• Stay hands-on in software development, guiding engineers at a technical level
• Advocate for the customer, balancing customer, team, and business needs in decisions

Required qualifications

• A track record of leading and delivering complex projects
• Experience leading or mentoring engineers
• Appetite to own the full management remit, from hiring and development through to harder people conversations
• Extensive commercial experience with C# & .Net
• Strong technical background in modern software development practices and cloud-based scalable architecture
• A customer-focused, commercially aware and data-informed approach to decision making
• Ability to manage cross-team dependencies, collaborating effectively with Product, QA, and other stakeholders

Benefits

• Private Healthcare including dental and opticians services through Vitality
• Worldwide travel insurance through Vitality
• Anniversary Rewards (£250, £500, £750, 4-week fully paid sabbatical)
• Salary Sacrifice Pension Scheme up to 7% match
• 28 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
• Annual Learning and Wellbeing Budget
• Enhanced Parental Leave
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Season Ticket Loan
• 6 free therapy sessions per year
• Dog Friendly Offices
• Free drinks and snacks in our offices

Before you apply

• First stage: 30 minute intro call with Talent Partner
• Second stage: 60 minute Tech Chat & Values Interview with the Engineering Manager & People Partner
• Third stage: 60 minute Code Pairing with our Engineering Team
• Final stage: 60 minute Case Study with Product & Engineering + 60 minute Good to Great Interview with our CTO ( onsite )

About the company

Capital on Tap is a financial platform that offers a business credit card, SME-focused spend management platform, and a savings product. They have 1,000+ employees and 200,000+ customers.