Engineering manager

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next: helping more household-name brands launch and scale investment propositions, entering new markets and replacing outdated investment infrastructure with technology that’s faster, simpler and built for scale.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 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

This role isn’t for you if...

• You’re looking for a purely people-management role. You’ll need enough technical credibility to guide decisions and challenge constructively

• You want to be the primary technical decision-maker. You’ll create the environment for engineers to own solutions and grow their capability

• You need priorities to remain fixed. You’ll be leading delivery in a fast-moving environment where plans and business needs can change

• You prioritise speed at the expense of quality. Delivery pace matters, alongside security, resilience and long-term maintainability

What’s in it for you
We offer a generous mix of benefits designed around the things that matter to our people:

• 💰 £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…

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