Overview
In this role you lead a high-performing engineering team within a scaling FinTech, guiding quarterly delivery and the development of your engineers. You stay hands-on technically while driving outcomes through people, culture, and cross-functional collaboration. You balance customer-focused decisions with sustainable delivery, identifying risks early and removing blockers for the team. This position offers a mix of leadership, technical influence, and the chance to shape how the team scales and delivers impact at pace. You join a hybrid environment in London, contributing to a diverse, collaborative tech culture.
Pay / Benefits
- 28 days holiday plus Bank Holidays
- 1k learning and development budget
- Private Health Care
- Travel Insurance
- Mental Health sessions
- Wellbeing allowance/benefits
Responsibilities
- Build and lead a high-performing engineering team and own quarterly delivery objectives
- Mentor engineers, provide feedback, manage performance, and support career development
- Remove blockers and proactively address delivery, technical, and people risks
- Collaborate with Product, QA, and Technical Leaders to align strategy and execution
- Maintain clear communication across remote, hybrid, and in-person settings
- Balance customer outcomes with team health and broader business goals
- Foster a sustainable, hands-on engineering culture that scales without relying on you for every problem
Key requirements
- Experience leading and delivering complex projects
- Advanced leadership or mentoring skills with full management remit
- Extensive commercial experience with C# .Net
- React knowledge is beneficial but not essential
- Strong understanding of modern software development practices and Azure-based scalable architecture
- Customer-focused, commercially aware with data-informed decision making
- Ability to manage cross-team dependencies and collaborate with Product, QA, and stakeholders
- Collaborative
- Mentoring and feedback
- Stakeholder management
- C# .Net
- Azure
- React (beneficial)
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