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Engineering manager

Seccl· Engineering
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Hybrid (London), Hybrid (Bath), Hybrid (Edinburgh)£95k - £110kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Engineering manager to lead one of Seccl's product engineering squads, reporting to an engineering director. Build and coach a high-performing, inclusive team, balance delivery with quality, security and maintainability, and collaborate with product managers and broader teams to deliver scalable platform capabilities.

Responsibilities

  • 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, from priorities and planning through to production readiness, reliability and ongoing maintainability
  • Partnering with product managers to align the squad’s work with customer, commercial, regulatory and platform priorities
  • Guiding technical decisions and helping the team build solutions that are scalable, secure, resilient and well integrated with the wider platform
  • Using metrics, feedback and team insight to improve delivery predictability, system reliability and team effectiveness
  • Recruiting and onboarding engineers while contributing to shared engineering practices and collaboration across Seccl

Qualifications

  • You’re an experienced engineering manager who has led teams working within complex product or technology domains
  • You have a strong track record of hiring, onboarding, coaching and developing engineers
  • You can balance people leadership with delivery accountability and remain close enough to the technology to offer meaningful guidance
  • You have experience with a modern JavaScript and cloud-based technology stack. Our stack includes Node.js, JavaScript and TypeScript, MongoDB, AWS, Lambda and Serverless Framework
  • You communicate clearly and can work effectively with product managers, engineering leaders and senior stakeholders
  • You have recent, practical experience with AI-assisted engineering tools and can help teams use them responsibly to improve delivery, quality and developer effectiveness
  • You care about building secure, scalable and resilient systems. Experience in financial services, fintech, investment platforms or another regulated environment would be valuable

Skills

Required:People leadershipDelivery managementJavaScript / Node.js / TypeScriptAWS / Serverless
Nice to have:MongoDBAI-assisted engineering tools

Benefits

  • £95,000 to £110,000 depending on experience, reviewed annually, plus a 6% employer pension contribution and life assurance
  • 27 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, your birthday off and paid dependant leave
  • Two volunteering days each year
  • The option to work abroad for up to six weeks a year
  • Secclbrate, our recognition programme offering flexible rewards including 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 your 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, the Octopus Share Incentive Plan and will writing through Octopus Legacy
  • Perkbox, with flexible points and a range of discounts and perks
  • Cycle to Work and Octopus Electric Vehicle Leasing
Last updated Sep 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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The embedded investment platform

Our software and services help forward-thinking firms build the investment propositions of the future…

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