Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager

A high growth fintech organisation is seeking an Engineering Manager to take ownership of a key domain within their core platforms. The company builds products that enable global payments and financial operations at scale. The environment is fast moving, collaborative, and technically ambitious. You will be joining a team that values clear thinking, high standards, and continuous improvement.

Role Overview

You will lead a team of engineers who are responsible for designing, building, and maintaining critical platform components. The role combines people leadership, technical direction, delivery management, and cross functional collaboration with product.

You will shape roadmap decisions, ensure engineering excellence, and guide your teams growth and performance.

Technical Leadership

Take ownership of a core technical area and guide short to mid term planning

Collaborate with senior engineers to shape system design and architectural direction

Hands on coding and a strong focus on stability, performance, security and long term operability

Promote clarity through documentation, standards and knowledge sharing

Delivery Management

Oversee planning and execution of development work across the team

Prioritise effectively between strategic initiatives and reactive work

Encourage momentum while promoting thoughtful engineering practices

Ensure operational issues are investigated, addressed and learned from

Cross Functional Collaboration

Work closely with product leadership to align scope, priorities and timelines

Provide clear communication around progress, trade offs and risks

People Leadership

Manage and mentor engineers with varying levels of experience

Offer structured coaching, performance feedback and progression support

Build an environment based on ownership, trust and constructive challenge

Contribute to hiring processes and help develop high performing teams

Qualifications

Previous experience leading engineers within a product focused environment

Background in financial services, regulated technology, or similarly complex domains is beneficial

Strong understanding of modern engineering practices, architectures and tooling

Comfortable leading in an agile or iterative development setting

Clear communicator with strong decision making capability

Demonstrated ability to balance technical depth with practical delivery