Director of Engineering, Seccl
Accounts
£115-130k
More information about location
The embedded investment platform
Open for applications
The embedded investment platform
101-200 employees
Open for applications
£115-130k
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
Seccl is the Octopus-owned embedded investment platform that’s helping more people to invest – and invest well.
Role
Who you are
- Have experience leading multiple engineering squads in a high-growth, cloud-native environment
- Have experience leading 20–40+ engineers through managers, Staff engineers and senior individual contributors
- Have owned multi-year technical and organisational strategies, ideally within regulated or high-integrity domains
- Understand AWS/serverless architecture and modern engineering practices
- Enjoy shaping operating models, delivery frameworks and engineering cultures
- Can operate across horizons: from long-term architectural direction to diving into technical detail when needed
- Build strong partnerships across product and engineering, Influencing at all levels
- Have a track record of improving delivery processes and driving operational efficiencies
- Are comfortable navigating ambiguity and rapid growth, using data to guide decisions
- 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
- Lead the long-term technical strategy, organisational design and engineering excellence for the Accounts domain — the foundation of every investor journey on Seccl
- Provide collaborative leadership across architecture, risk, delivery and team growth in one of Seccl’s most business-critical and regulated domains
- Report directly to the CTO and partner closely with the Group Product Manager for Accounts in a dual-leadership model
- Guide the technical direction for 4–6 squads, ensuring scalable architecture, engineering quality and reliable delivery
- Develop and enable Engineering Managers, embedding a culture of Ownership and shared accountability through a ‘build it, run it’ approach
- Operate within a domain with deep regulatory responsibility, technical complexity and a broad product footprint — spanning backend services, event-driven flows, APIs and customer-facing UI
- In 12–18 months, you’ll have…
- Delivered a clear multi-year Accounts technical roadmap aligned to product and compliance priorities
- Improved DORA and reliability metrics, reducing operational risk
- Strengthened the Engineering Manager, Staff and Principal engineering bench with clear succession depth
- Scaled organisational design to sustain flow, autonomy and effective delivery as Seccl grows
- On a typical day you will…
- Set and communicate the technical vision and strategy for the Accounts tribe, shaping direction 6–18 months ahead
- Guide architectural decisions that ensure scalability, resilience and compliance
- Work with Staff and Principal Engineers to define and evolve architectural guardrails, patterns and platform capabilities
- Partner with the Group Product Manager to align technical and product priorities for maximum customer impact
- Lead and coach Engineering Managers, enabling their growth and technical leadership
- Advocate best practices and frameworks (e.g., AWS Well-Architected Framework) across squads
- Ensure operational excellence and reliability in delivery, embedding a ‘build it, run it’ culture
- Design, refine and evolve the organisational structure of the Accounts tribe to ensure long-term flow, autonomy and Ownership
- Build succession plans, strengthen leadership pipelines and uplift engineering management capability
- Influence company-wide engineering standards, frameworks and technical strategy as part of the Engineering Leadership Team
- Drive safe, measurable adoption of AI-assisted engineering (UI acceleration, test generation, migration tooling), with appropriate governance for IP, security and compliance
- Promote continuous improvement in processes, tooling and engineering culture
- Partner with Compliance, Risk, Security and Operations to embed robust engineering governance, technical controls and audit readiness
- Shape and manage cloud spend, operational cost-to-serve and vendor relationships across the Accounts domain
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
- ⏳ 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
Salary benchmarks
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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