seccl - Engineering manager

• 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