Senior Engineering Manager – Payments

Role Overview

• Drive team execution: Partner with product leaders to set quarterly goals and run the agile ceremonies (standups, sprints, retros) that keep us moving at pace.
• Directly manage 4–7 developers and 1–3 Engineering Managers, taking full responsibility for their career progression, recruitment, and seamless onboarding.
• Technical oversight & architecture: Own the target reference architecture and end-to-end delivery of your team’s services, breaking down requirements into high-level milestones.
• Communicate clearly: Act as the key link between deep-tech decisions and business outcome, reporting progress and challenges to non-technical senior stakeholders with total clarity.
• Raise the bar: Join our EM guild and ensure we continuously evolve our best practices. This can span from planning, coding, design, quality, monitoring, deployment and security practices. You will be accountable to implement these practices in your team

Requirements

• Domain expertise: You’ve led engineering teams in finance-related and revenue-critical domains, building and modernising platforms that handle high volumes (or high value), strict correctness requirements, and complex business rules. You’re comfortable working with external partners and third-party service providers from the finance and payments industries, and you can translate regulatory and compliance constraints into pragmatic technical solutions. You understand finance regulations and their impact and technology and how to approach them with a pragmatic yet future proofing approach.
• Seasoned technology leader: You have more than 15 years of experience in software engineering, and at least 7 years in an engineering manager role. You have a deep understanding of software development methodologies, architectural patterns, and best practices.
• Trustful management: You have experience managing development teams and developers at all levels, including remote teams with relevant experience coaching and developing team members building trust across the organisation, and ensuring everyone understands the "why" behind the "what."
• Fast pace: You have a proven track record of improving team ability to deliver more value at speed. You understand pace, how to set-up performance metrics, identify bottlenecks and how to make fast data-driven decisions even when data is incomplete. You follow a “deliver now, stay adaptable” approach, shipping reliable outcomes while keeping systems maintainable and future-ready.
• Partnering mindset: You possess strong communication, and interpersonal skills. You are comfortable talking to non technical senior stakeholders about the progress and challenges from your team. You know how to work with other people in the organisation, with a collaborative approach to solve problems.
• Hands on: You have a background as a software engineer or developer with hands-on experience developing web applications and web platforms at scale. You are able to make individual contributions across the full stack and comfortable being able to review or write code in almost any language.
• Tech: You have experience or have been exposed with the following tools and technologies: Stripe, AWS, Bun, Node.js, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Typescript, React, HTML, CSS, Datadog, OpsLevel, Incident.io

Tech Stack

• AWS
• DynamoDB
• JavaScript
• Node.js
• Postgres
• React
• TypeScript

Benefits

• A competitive salary
• BUPA health insurance
• Discounted gym membership through BUPA
• OnHand volunteering membership and one paid volunteering day per year
• Hybrid working
• Pension scheme
• Motorway car leasing scheme
• lease a zero-emissions electric vehicle at a significant discount
• Enhanced parental leave
• We offer enhanced maternity pay (26 weeks of full pay) and enhanced paternity pay (4 weeks of full pay) to eligible employees.
• Workplace nursery scheme
• Regular social events
• Cycle to work scheme