Senior Engineering Manager, Seccl
Cloud
£95-115k
AWS
TypeScript
JavaScript
Python
Go
Terraform
Datadog
Senior and Expert level
Bristol
Edinburgh
London
1-2 days a week in office
The embedded investment platform
Open for applications
The embedded investment platform
101-200 employees
FintechFinancial Services
Open for applications
£95-115k
AWS
TypeScript
JavaScript
Python
Go
Terraform
Datadog
Senior and Expert level
Bristol
Edinburgh
London
1-2 days a week in office
101-200 employees
FintechFinancial 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 a strong engineering leader with experience building and running resilient cloud platforms, and you enjoy leading teams that sit at the intersection of infrastructure and product
- You’re a pragmatic software engineer—comfortable with JavaScript/TypeScript but also open to other languages like Go or Python
- You take a product mindset to platform work: engaging with stakeholders, framing problems, setting priorities, and communicating trade-offs
- You enjoy collaborating across engineering, product, and operations to align goals and ensure platform stability and scalability
- You care deeply about operational excellence, automation, and making things reliable, secure, and easy to use
- You’ve led or contributed to modern cloud-native environments and are fluent in AWS best practices, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), and monitoring (Datadog)
- You thrive in an environment where you’re empowered to define direction, drive delivery, and represent your team’s work to the wider business
- You want to be part of a company on a mission to transform investment infrastructure through thoughtful technology and strong engineering culture
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Squad Engineering Manager to lead our Cloud Resilience team—a critical squad within our engineering organisation responsible for the core infrastructure that powers our cloud-native investment platform
- This is a hands-on leadership role combining deep technical insight, strong stakeholder engagement, and strategic delivery. You’ll be responsible for shaping and delivering the roadmap
- You’ll also be line managing the engineers in your squad, supporting their growth, career development, and wellbeing, and helping shape the future team through recruitment and onboarding
- Our team ensures the core investment platform remains reliable, secure, and scalable, supporting the needs of product squads while keeping operational complexity low
- We empower squads to build and run their own services by providing self-service platforms, tooling, and guidance, rather than acting as a centralised infrastructure team that owns and operates everything end-to-end
- We’re primarily in AWS, utilising Lambda, ECS, SQS, API Gateway among others. Our database engine is MongoDB and our observability platform is Datadog. Our application is written in Typescript/NodeJS and our infrastructure is defined in Terraform
- On a typical day you will be…
- Lead, coach, and line manage a team of skilled engineers—supporting their personal and professional growth, providing regular feedback and career development guidance, and driving team hiring, onboarding, and retention
- Own and drive the roadmap for your squad, working with stakeholders to define problems, prioritise work, and align delivery to business and platform goals
- Represent your team in quarterly planning, clearly communicating goals, trade-offs, and rationale behind prioritisation
- Collaborate across teams to ensure platform resilience, security, and observability are considered in all system design and delivery
- Lead incident response, own production readiness, and embed best practices for monitoring, alerting, and fault tolerance
- Guide architectural outcomes and contribute to key implementations—particularly in areas related to infrastructure automation, cloud reliability, and developer tooling
- Champion the use of Terraform, Datadog, and AWS-native tooling to manage infrastructure, observability, and runtime environments
- Measure and improve key platform metrics—uptime, latency, cost-efficiency, incident resolution time, and platform usability
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 stage – one-hour cloud system design interview
- Second stage – one-hour code review interview
- Third stage - 45 mins Leadership & Collaboration interview
- Final stage – 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 190,000 investors as well as managing more than £13.4B 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
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
Articles
Leadership
David Ferguson
(CEO)Joined Seccl in 2022 as CEO. Prior to that, they spent 15 years as the CEO of Nucleus Financial Group.
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