Software Engineering Manager

Avanti Recruitment is currently working with a leading, award-winning FinTech who are seeking a hands-on Engineering Manager to take responsibility for engineering leadership and delivery. The business provides cutting-edge financial technology solutions to global financial institutions and has been recognised for excellence and innovation across the sector.

The Role

You will be responsible for leading and mentoring the engineering team, ensuring delivery excellence, operational resilience, and platform growth. This role combines technical leadership with people management and requires someone confident in engineering delivery, incident management, platform operations, and client support.

This role will require you in office 4 days per week and located in Surrey. You will line manage 2 Senior Engineers, as well as a 3rd Engineer and SRE.

Key Responsibilities

• Daily interaction other departments, MD of Trading, Joint-CEOs as well as external clients
• Hands-on coding / documentation (70-80% of the time)
• Lead and mentor a high-performing engineering team
• Oversee agile delivery, backlog management, and release planning
• Ensure platform stability through monitoring, incident management, and post-mortems
• Implement robust security and compliance practices
• Manage vendor relationships and operational budgets
• Support client onboarding and resolve platform-related issues

Experience

• You will have experience supervising, developing, and training engineering teams.
• Strong background in Java development (Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate, REST)
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure) and DevOps practices (CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code)
• Familiarity with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Splunk)
• Strong incident management skills and operational mindset
• Excellent communication skills for both internal leadership and client-facing situations

Interview process:

• Initial interview with Head of Engineering
• Technical and practical test
• CTO / Chairman of Tech Committee meeting
• Final stage with CEO

The salary on this position is up to £90,000.

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