Senior Engineering Manager, Seccl
Tax Wrappers
£100-120k
React
MongoDB
AWS
TypeScript
JavaScript
Node.js
Senior and Expert level
Bristol
Edinburgh
London
The embedded investment platform
Job no longer available
The embedded investment platform
101-200 employees
FintechB2BFinancial Services
Job no longer available
£100-120k
React
MongoDB
AWS
TypeScript
JavaScript
Node.js
Senior and Expert level
Bristol
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 and is ready for broader scope and impact
- You have a strong track record of building and scaling teams, including hiring, onboarding, and developing engineers
- You’re comfortable leading multiple squads or operating at a domain level, balancing strategic thinking with day-to-day execution
- 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, React, MongoDB, AWS, Lambda, Serverless Framework, and JavaScript/TypeScript
- 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 — experience with tax wrappers (such as SIPPs or ISAs) is a strong advantage, but experience in adjacent domains (payments, custody, pensions, banking, compliance-heavy platforms) would also be highly valuable
- You care deeply about building secure, compliant, and scalable systems that are easy to integrate and a pleasure to use
- You’re excited by the opportunity to shape a critical domain in a fast-growing, mission-led company
- 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 a Senior engineering manager – Tax Wrappers, you’ll play a pivotal role in Seccl’s next phase of growth
- You’ll lead engineering delivery across the Tax Wrappers domain, which includes core products such as SIPPs and ISAs — some of the most critical and strategically important capabilities on the Seccl platform
- This is a senior leadership role with both delivery and growth accountability
- You’ll initially take ownership of a single squad, while being expected to hire, build and scale a second squad within your first few months
- Over time, you’ll lead two squads operating in closely related or adjacent problem spaces, each typically made up of 4–5 engineers and supported by a Product Manager
- You’ll work closely with Product, Platform engineering, Compliance, and senior engineering leadership to ensure Seccl continues to deliver scalable, compliant, and market-leading tax wrapper functionality
- Your leadership will directly influence Seccl’s ability to support new customer propositions, scale with confidence, and deliver increasingly complex functionality as the platform grows
- This role goes beyond day-to-day squad leadership: you’ll help shape the technical direction, operating model, and long-term strategy for Tax Wrappers across the platform
- Tax Wrappers is a critical growth area for Seccl. Our SIPP and ISA capabilities sit at the heart of the platform and are fundamental to how customers use and integrate with Seccl
- As the platform grows, the complexity and scale of this domain continues to increase — from account lifecycle management and transaction flows to regulatory reporting, integrations, and operational resilience
- As Senior Engineering Manager, you’ll be a key leader responsible for ensuring this domain can scale sustainably and continue to support Seccl’s growth ambitions over the next 12 months and beyond
- Leading, coaching and mentoring engineers across two squads, fostering a culture of high performance, psychological safety, and continuous improvement
- Hiring and building a new squad in the Tax Wrappers domain, including shaping team structure, onboarding, and ways of working
- Partnering closely with Product managers to define priorities, plan delivery, and align initiatives with Seccl’s commercial, regulatory, and platform goals
- Providing technical leadership and architectural oversight across Tax Wrapper systems, including account lifecycles, transaction processing, and regulatory logic
- Supporting and challenging technical decision-making, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, compliant, and well-integrated across the wider platform
- Remaining hands-on where it adds value — through design reviews, architectural spikes, prototyping, or unblocking complex delivery challenges
- Working closely with Platform engineering and other domain leaders to ensure strong cross-squad collaboration and consistency
- Owning delivery health across your domain, including production readiness, incident response, and operational excellence
- Using metrics and feedback to continuously improve delivery predictability, system reliability, and team effectiveness
- Contributing to broader engineering leadership discussions, helping shape how engineering operates at Seccl as we scale
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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