Senior Engineering manager

Senior Engineering Manager (hands-on) - Payments/Fintech - £120,000 - £150,000 & 15% bonus - Hybrid

Please note - you must have previous experience working with payments to be considered for this/this role does not offer sponsorship

A London based fintech/payments client are doubling their global tech offering and embarking on an exciting rebrand; working with the Director of Engineering (50% hands on/50% technical & strategic) you will have the opportunity to lead and scale 1 or more of their platform/product engineering teams. You will be a pivotal figure in the further development and scaling of their new FX/payments platform as well as launching a new range of fintech products.

Whilst the team are working in Python, this is by no means essential to be considered - the chief importance is that you have worked with payments technologies and understand associated principles/nuances of the industry. If you are a strong lead engineer/hands on engineering manager, we would love to hear from you:

Role overview:

• 50/50 hands on and technical/people leadership of one/multiple core engineering teams
• Working with engineers to uphold and define scalable long term platform architecture
• Leading and mentoring skilled teams of 3-5 engineers / helping with scaling & interviews where necessary
• Lead from the front and foster a culture of accountability, extreme ownership

Technical experience:

• Payments experience essential
• Python nice to have but other backend languages considered
• Cloud services and CICD

Salary and benefits: Up to £120k & 15% bonus

Please note - this role will require 4 days per week in office/onsite in London.

Interview process: 3 stages then offer (x1 technical interview - 1 peer review/team meeting - 1 meeting with Engineering Director - offer)

If this is of interest - please drop me an email with your CV and we can schedule a call