Engineering manager

About the role

Seccl is the Octopus-owned embedded investment platform that's on a mission to helping more people to invest - and invest well. We're B-Corp certified with an amazing product-market fit, impressive early traction and the potential to transform an outdated industry, for the better. We've been growing fast and will scale even faster over the next few years. We're also proud to be part of Octopus, the £multi-billion group that's on a mission to breathe new life into broken industries, through companies like Octopus Energy, Octopus Investments and Octopus Money. Check out the Seccl website for the latest on our products and our mission to shape the future of investments. As an Engineering manager, you'll lead one of Seccl's product engineering squads, helping the team deliver high-quality, scalable platform capability while creating an environment where engineers can do their best work. You'll play a key role in building strong, psychologically safe engineering teams with a culture of continual learning, trust, empowerment and experimentation. You'll support engineers through coaching, personal development and line management, while also helping the squad deliver valuable, reliable and well-engineered outcomes. You'll work closely with Product managers, Engineering leaders and stakeholders across the business to define priorities, plan delivery and make sure the team is focused on the right outcomes. You'll help balance delivery pace with engineering quality, operational resilience, security and long-term maintainability. This is a leadership role with delivery, people and engineering accountability. You'll be close enough to the technology to guide and challenge technical decisions, while enabling engineers to own solutions and grow their capability. On a typical day you will be... Leading, coaching and mentoring engineers within your squad, fostering a culture of high performance, psychological safety and continuous improvement Supporting the personal development and line management of engineers, helping them grow their skills and progress their careers Partnering closely with Product managers to define priorities, plan delivery and align squad work with Seccl's commercial, regulatory and platform goals Helping the squad make pragmatic delivery decisions, balancing customer value, technical quality, risk and long-term maintainability Supporting and challenging technical decision-making, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, resilient and well-integrated with the wider platform Remaining hands-on where it adds value, through design reviews, technical discussions, architectural exploration or unblocking complex delivery challenges Working with Engineering leaders and other squads to improve cross-team collaboration, consistency and shared engineering standards Owning delivery health for your squad, including production readiness, incident response, operational resilience and ongoing maintainability Using metrics, feedback and team insight to continuously improve delivery predictability, system reliability and team effectiveness Recruiting and onboarding new team members, helping build teams with the right skills, behaviours and ways of working Contributing to broader engineering initiatives that help Seccl scale, such as improving engineering practices, developing people, strengthening delivery processes and sharing knowledge This role's for you if... You're an experienced Engineering manager who has led complex product domains You have a strong track record of building and scaling teams, including hiring, onboarding, and developing engineers You're comfortable balancing strategic thinking with hands-on execution, and can lead a squad that delivers value You bring excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills, and can work effectively with Product, Compliance, and senior leadership You're confident working across our tech stack: Node.js, MongoDB, AWS, Lambda, Serverless Framework, and JavaScript/TypeScript You have recent, practical experience with AI-assisted engineering tools and are comfortable helping teams apply them responsibly to improve delivery, quality and developer effectiveness. You enjoy being close to the technology and can provide meaningful technical guidance without needing to be the primary coder You have domain experience in financial services, investment platforms, fintech, or other highly regulated environments You care deeply about building secure, compliant, and scalable systems that are easy to integrate and a pleasure to use You're motivated by the opportunity to help shape how Engineering operates at Seccl as we continue to grow This role isn't for you if... You rely on a lot of top-down direction. Here, you'll have a lot of freedom and ownership of your role, and you'll be expected to shape your own progression You're not comfortable working in a fast-paced

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Hybrid role to be based in our London, Bath or Edinburgh office.

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