Engineering Manager, Griffin
+ Stock Options
Full-stack Banking-as-a-Service platform with a banking license
Open for applications
Full-stack Banking-as-a-Service platform with a banking license
101-200 employees
Open for applications
+ Stock Options
101-200 employees
Company mission
To simplify the complexity of banking infrastructure and compliance operations, so their customers can focus on what they really care about.
Role
Who you are
- You are deeply passionate about helping others achieve their goals and become the best engineers they can be whilst avoiding burnout
- You actively look for cross functionality and have experience working with product and operations teams
- You have a solid understanding of what good looks like for a high-performing engineering team of different skillsets and experience levels
- You have recent experience as a senior engineer or in a technical leadership role using functional languages (Clojure, Elixir, Haskell etc) or within a BaaS or payments Fintech.
What the job involves
- Be a leader of one or more teams, taking accountability for their deliveries and the health of their technology
- Manage your teams sprints, making sure that development work is ready to be picked up, estimated and prioritised to optimise output
- Coach your teams in everything from architectural vision to operational excellence
- Collaborate with the CTO and product management team to set and execute against the right goals
- Develop engineers on the team, helping them advance in their careers
- Work with our VP of Engineering to build a long term roadmap for the development of our engineers
- Support the team in maintaining a high technical standard and best working practices
- Take a prominent role in recruiting across engineering and product
Application process
- Get to know you with a member of Talent
- Deep dive into your experience and approach to leading engineering teams, collaboration across functions, and thought leadership with our VP of Engineering
- Take home task looking at your writing and coding in Clojure
- Discussion around deep technical topics with peers, system design skills, and knowledge of APIs
- Griffin culture interview with Grifflings outside of the Engineering Guild, and an opportunity to meet one of our founders
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Griffin is working to change the banking world, which they see as exclusive, opaque, and not particularly technology-friendly. Their aim is to lower barriers to entry for fintechs and increase transparency.
To achieve this, they are designing a wholesale bank from the ground up, focusing on the problems their customers face and following steps to solve them.
Griffin is taking a novel approach, offering a bank-as-a-platform model with integrated compliance to allow customers to get their financial products to market quickly and cost-effectively.
Their systems have the capability to move faster than existing banks burdened by legacy tech and provide new opportunities to financial technology firms over a wide range of business models.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
39% female employees
67% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Nice people
"It was really hard to choose which 3 things to highlight in this endorsement - I chose nice people because the founders really lead by example on..."
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Mar 2024
$23.1m
SERIES A
Mar 2023
$13.3m
SERIES A
Total funding: $64.7m
Company benefits
- Life insurance through AIG
- Generous stock option grants for everyone at the company
- Private medical insurance through Vitality
- A weekly team lunch on Griffin (even when you're working remotely)
- Auto-enrolment into company pension scheme
- 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
- Remote first working culture, If you want to to work from home you can and you can expense your office set up. Equally, we have an office in London where you can work, as well as the ability to work from shared working spaces
- Up to 6 months fully paid parental leave (depending on tenure)
- Annual(ish) company offsite
Company values
- Thoughtfulness - Take your time
- Kindness and Empathy - Assume the best of each other
- Resilience - Don't give up easily
- Simple made easy - Reduce complexity where possible
- Transparent - Open by default
- Be Deserving of Trust - We measure ourselves against the highest standard of conduct
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Allen Rohner
(CTO)Previously founded CircleCI and authored the book Learning ClojureScript with co-founder David.
David Jarvis
(CEO)Previously worked as a Software Engineer at Standard Treasury and Airbnb.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Griffin
Jenna Baker (Chief People Officer )
- Our goal is for Griffin to proportionally represent the diversity of the working population in society. We’re working to ensure that Griffin is a supportive, empowering and inclusive environment for every member of our team — whatever your intersection of identities & background. If you're part of a group that is under-represented in fintech, we'd love to hear from you.
- We offer enhanced parental leave for Grifflings - you’re able to take 26 weeks of parental leave. This increases to 52 weeks if you are based in the UK AND you are the birthing parent, the primary-caregiver adopter, or if you and your partner decide to use UK’s Shared Parental Leave.
- We'll pay you in full for 13 weeks of parental leave, and then the greater of 50% pay or London Living Wage for the following 13 weeks, provided you’ve been with us for 6 months on your expected due date or placement date.
- If you have been with us for two years (or more!) by your expected due date or placement date, we will pay you in full for 26 weeks of parental leave
- We are flexible with our approach to work, work from home, the office or a shared working space, it's really up to you! We also are flexible on what hours you work too, we understand that life can sometimes just get in the way and you need to be able to pick up the kids from school.
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