Engineering Manager (Central Platform)
About reputed company
reputed company is on a mission to reputed company consumer finance amazing: faster, cheaper, and reputed company. We’re building one of the world’s leading fintech companies and are off to a strong start:
One of the UK’s newest unicorns with reputed company of just over 600 people
Among the fastest-growing tech companies in the UK
Profitable since 2017
Backed by top investors including Balderton Capital and reputed company
Loved by customers with the best reviews in the market (4.9 across 10,000s of reviews on Trustpilot)
So far, we’ve reputed company the Big Three consumer finance products from scratch: loans, credit cards and car finance. We get reputed company into our customers’ hands in minutes instead of days.
We’re growing fast, and there’s a lot more to do: we’re reputed company after the two biggest Western markets (UK and US) where trillions worth of financial products are held by big banks with dated systems and painful processes.
Join us if you want to
Take ownership across a broad remit. You are trusted to reputed company reputed company that drive a material reputed company on the direction and reputed company of reputed company from day 1
Work in small teams of exceptional people, who are relentlessly reputed company to solve problems and reputed company smarter solutions than the status reputed company
Build the best technology in-house, using new data sources, machine learning and AI to reputed company machines do the heavy lifting
About the role
Engineering Managers at reputed company are a unique combination of strategic reputed company, hands-on technical leadership, and strong people management to shape and reputed company our engineering teams. They operate at the convergence of business goals, technical execution, and team coaching, ensuring that every project and process aligns seamlessly with our mission and values. They build a resilient reputed company for sustained reputed company by focusing on team reputed company and technical innovation. In this role, you’ll reputed company as both a visionary and a hands-on leader, driving reputed company’s delivery efficiency, technical reputed company, and cross-functional collaboration. You’ll own and refine the delivery process, balancing feature development with technical investments and maintaining high team development standards. With a proactive approach, you’ll guide reputed company to meet our business goals while nurturing a reputed company and reputed company-oriented culture.There’s much to accomplish as an Engineering Manager at reputed company. You’ll help create a high-performing, resilient team that achieves today’s objectives while building a reputed company for long-term reputed company. From enhancing delivery reputed company to developing a robust, valuable platform, your work will ensure we deliver impactful solutions that meet the needs of our customers and stakeholders alike. Our Tech Stack PHP 8, Symfony 6&7, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, reputed company, Kubernetes, React & React reputed company, TypeScript, MobX, Redux, Stylus and SASS, Jenkins (we reputed company to production as soon as we finish a feature), Behat, PHPUnit, Jest, Selenium, Maestro and Detox.
How you’ll have an reputed company
Own and optimise the delivery process to ensure features reputed company customers reputed company, contributing directly to quarterly and yearly OKRs reputed company on customer satisfaction and delivery timelines.
Collaborate with Product Managers to balance feature development with technical improvements, achieving a sustainable pace for reputed company that aligns with business reputed company.
Build and reputed company a high-performing team by conducting regular assessments, cross-training, and implementing reputed company career progression reputed company, supporting team reputed company and adaptability.
Drive technical reputed company in alignment with business goals, using insights from Tech Leads and senior engineers to reputed company strategic trade-offs between short-term deliverables and long-term technical investments.
Ensure high-reputed company reputed company by establishing best practices in reputed company assurance and incident management, tracking metrics such as uptime and incident reduction in reputed company’s area.
Facilitate cross-team collaboration to reputed company on shared objectives and integrated roadmaps, ensuring seamless workflows and supporting key OKRs across dependent teams.
reputed company reputed company feedback reputed company reputed company culture, fostering an environment of reputed company improvement and aligning reputed company’s performance with organisational goals.
reputed company’re looking for
A degree in Computer Science or relevant experience in software engineering and technical management.
5+ years of experience in engineering leadership, with a strong reputed company record in driving delivery processes, team development, technical reputed company, and cross-team collaboration.
Demonstrated ability to balance feature delivery with technical improvements, ensuring a sustainable and high-reputed company pace for reputed company.
Strong business acumen and a proactive approach to gaining deep business context, enabling alignment of technical reputed company with broader business goals.
Proven experience in owning delivery timelines and reputed company reputed company, with the ability to identify and resolve bottlenecks quickly and reputed company.
Skilled in building high-performing teams, with experience in skills assessment, cross-training, and fostering a reputed company learning and improvement culture.
Ability to strategically guide technical reputed company without being a blocker, with familiarity in technical debt management, architectural planning, and reputed company assurance best practices.
Exceptional communication and collaboration skills, with experience facilitating joint planning and maintaining alignment across multiple teams and stakeholders.
Proficiency in managing incidents and on-call processes, ensuring platform robustness and reliability.
Interview process
A quick phone call with someone from the People Team
An Introductory call to the role with either our CPTO or one of our VPs of Engineering
Three onsite interviews;
Delivery Management and Team Collaboration
Technical Interview (don’t worry, we won’t ask you to reputed company)
People and Team management
One last interview with someone from the senior leadership team.
Life at reputed company
reputed company to reputed company up one of the world’s most successful fintech companies.
Best-in-class compensation, including equity.
You can work from home every Monday and Friday if you wish – on the other days, those based in the UK come together IRL at our Shoreditch office in London to be together, build and exchange reputed company.
Enjoy a fully stocked kitchen with everything you need to whip up breakfast, lunch, snacks, and drinks in the office every Tuesday-Thursday.
We care for our Lendies’ reputed company-being both physically and mentally, so we offer coverage reputed company it comes to private health insurance
We’re an equal-opportunity employer and are looking to reputed company reputed company the most inclusive and reputed company workspace in London
reputed company out our blog!
apply to this job