Engineering Manager, Seccl
£95-110k
MongoDB
AWS
TypeScript
JavaScript
Node.js
Senior and Expert level
Edinburgh
London
The embedded investment platform
Posted today
The embedded investment platform
101-200 employees
FintechB2BFinancial Services
Posted today
£95-110k
MongoDB
AWS
TypeScript
JavaScript
Node.js
Senior and Expert level
Edinburgh
London
101-200 employees
FintechB2BFinancial Services
Company mission
Seccl is the Octopus-owned embedded investment platform that’s helping more people to invest – and invest well.
Role
Who you are
- You’re an experienced Engineering manager who has led complex product domains
- You have a strong track record of building and scaling teams, including hiring, onboarding, and developing engineers
- You’re comfortable balancing strategic thinking with hands-on execution, and can lead a squad that delivers value
- You bring excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills, and can work effectively with Product, Compliance, and senior leadership
- You’re confident working across our tech stack: Node.js, MongoDB, AWS, Lambda, Serverless Framework, and JavaScript/TypeScript
- You have recent, practical experience with AI-assisted engineering tools and are comfortable helping teams apply them responsibly to improve delivery, quality and developer effectiveness
- You enjoy being close to the technology and can provide meaningful technical guidance without needing to be the primary coder
- You have domain experience in financial services, investment platforms, fintech, or other highly regulated environments
- You care deeply about building secure, compliant, and scalable systems that are easy to integrate and a pleasure to use
- You’re motivated by the opportunity to help shape how Engineering operates at Seccl as we continue to grow
- If this sounds like your kind of thing, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t tick every box. We’d love to hear from you!
What the job involves
- As an Engineering manager, you’ll lead one of Seccl’s product engineering squads, helping the team deliver high-quality, scalable platform capability while creating an environment where engineers can do their best work
- You’ll play a key role in building strong, psychologically safe engineering teams with a culture of continual learning, trust, empowerment and experimentation
- You’ll support engineers through coaching, personal development and line management, while also helping the squad deliver valuable, reliable and well-engineered outcomes
- You’ll work closely with Product managers, Engineering leaders and stakeholders across the business to define priorities, plan delivery and make sure the team is focused on the right outcomes
- You’ll help balance delivery pace with engineering quality, operational resilience, security and long-term maintainability
- This is a leadership role with delivery, people and engineering accountability. You’ll be close enough to the technology to guide and challenge technical decisions, while enabling engineers to own solutions and grow their capability
- Leading, coaching and mentoring engineers within your squad, fostering a culture of high performance, psychological safety and continuous improvement
- Supporting the personal development and line management of engineers, helping them grow their skills and progress their careers
- Partnering closely with Product managers to define priorities, plan delivery and align squad work with Seccl’s commercial, regulatory and platform goals
- Helping the squad make pragmatic delivery decisions, balancing customer value, technical quality, risk and long-term maintainability
- Supporting and challenging technical decision-making, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, resilient and well-integrated with the wider platform
- Remaining hands-on where it adds value, through design reviews, technical discussions, architectural exploration or unblocking complex delivery challenges
- Working with Engineering leaders and other squads to improve cross-team collaboration, consistency and shared engineering standards
- Owning delivery health for your squad, including production readiness, incident response, operational resilience and ongoing maintainability
- Using metrics, feedback and team insight to continuously improve delivery predictability, system reliability and team effectiveness
- Recruiting and onboarding new team members, helping build teams with the right skills, behaviours and ways of working
- Contributing to broader engineering initiatives that help Seccl scale, such as improving engineering practices, developing people, strengthening delivery processes and sharing knowledge
Application process
- Interviewing is a two-way thing, and we want you to have the time and opportunity to get to know us, as much as we are getting to know you
- Our interviews are conversational, so come with questions and be curious. In general, you can expect the interview process to look a bit like this, (following an initial chat with one of our Talent team):
- First round – 60 min System design technical round
- Second round – 45-min Leadership and cross-functional collaboration
- Final round – 45 mins bar-raiser culture-based interview
- ⏳ We’ll only close this role once we have enough applications for the next stage. Please submit your application as soon as possible to make sure you don’t miss out and you should expect to hear back from us within one to two weeks of applying
Our take
Seccl is an embedded investment platform revolutionising how companies offer investment services. With its API-first technology infrastructure, it helps financial professionals and businesses launch and manage investment platforms easily. By simplifying old, clunky processes, Seccl gives firms the tools they need to offer customers a seamless, digital investing experience - whether it's for financial advisers, neobanks, or fast-growing startups.
Since being acquired by Octopus in 2019, Seccl has seen impressive growth. Now supporting over 1 million investors, it manages more than £6 billion in funds through its platform. With this, Seccl is well on track to power even more businesses, and as it continues to grow, its mission to disrupt the industry with smarter, scalable solutions is only growing in momentum.
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Company benefits
- Flexible/hybrid working: We don’t prescribe when or how many days you come into the office. It’s what you deliver that’s important
- Events and socials: Twice-yearly all-company offsites, regular team socials and plenty of non-work activities – from gigs to sporting activities – to get stuck into
- Private medical: Access GP and other health and dental appointments work through private medical insurance
- Focus on mental health: Your wellbeing is more important than work. We offer free and confidential access to therapy if you need it
- Long-service award: A month’s fully-paid sabbatical when you’ve worked here for eight years (we’re part of Octopus, after all)
- The usual stuff: 27 days’ holiday (plus religious holidays and your birthday), Cycle2Work scheme and workplace pension
Company values
- Never settle
- Take ownership
- Be generous and candid
Company HQ
Holborn, London, UK
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Leadership
David Ferguson
(Executive Chairman)Joined Seccl in 2022 as CEO. Before that, they spent 15 years as the CEO of Nucleus Financial Group.
Jonathan Dees
(CEO)Previously COO of Octopus Investments and ZPG. Before that, they were Interim CFO at the Fairtrade Foundation.
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