Engineering manager

About the role

Hybrid, based in our London, Bath or Edinburgh office. We are flexible but would like you to be in the office at least once per week. About us Seccl is the Octopus-owned embedded investment platform, on a mission to help more people invest, and invest well. We’re building the infrastructure behind the next generation of investing. Our technology already powers some of the UK’s most ambitious fintechs, banks, financial advisers and wealth firms, with close to a million investors relying on Seccl-powered platforms. And we’re now expanding into Europe. We’ve got a proven product, strong momentum and big ambitions for what comes next: helping more household-name brands launch and scale investment propositions, entering new markets and replacing outdated investment infrastructure with technology that’s faster, simpler and built for scale. We’re proud to be part of Octopus, one of the UK’s most successful privately held investment and technology groups. That gives us the backing and long-term perspective to build something substantial, while keeping the pace and energy of a high-growth business. Seccl and Octopus are both B Corp certified and share a belief that profit and purpose should go hand in hand. If you want to help shape the future of investing in the UK and across Europe, you’ll be in good company. Check out the Seccl website to see what we’re building and read more about our mission to shape the future of investments. The role We’re looking for an engineering manager to lead one of our product engineering squads, reporting to an engineering director. As Seccl grows and our platform supports more customer firms and investors, you’ll help your squad deliver the scalable platform capability we need for what comes next. You’ll build a strong, psychologically safe engineering team where people feel trusted, supported and able to do their best work. You’ll coach and develop engineers, create clarity and help the team maintain high standards while delivering valuable outcomes. Working closely with your product manager, engineering leaders and teams across Seccl, you’ll help define priorities and keep the squad focused on the right outcomes. You’ll balance delivery pace with engineering quality, security, operational resilience and long-term maintainability. This role brings together people leadership, delivery and engineering accountability. You’ll stay close enough to the technology to guide and challenge decisions, while giving engineers the ownership and support they need to develop effective solutions. What you’ll own 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 This role’s for you if... 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 eff

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