Squad engineering manager - SIPP

This role can be remote within the UK, or hybrid in any of our offices in London, Bath or Edinburgh.

About us

Seccl is the Octopus-owned embedded investment platform that’s on a mission to helping more people to invest – and invest well. We’re B-Corp certified with an amazing product-market fit, impressive early traction and the potential to transform an outdated industry, for the better. We’ve been growing fast and will scale even faster over the next few years. We’re also proud to be part of Octopus, the £multi-billion group that’s on a mission to breathe new life into broken industries, through companies like Octopus Energy, Octopus Investments and Octopus Money.

The role

The Squad Engineering Manager’s purpose is to lead and empower a high-performing engineering team responsible for building and maintaining the systems that underpin our tax wrapper capabilities. This role is central to ensuring the delivery of scalable, compliant, and robust functionality that enables customers to invest through products like ISAs, SIPPs, and other tax-advantaged accounts. You’ll work closely with Product, Platform Engineering, and Compliance to align technology delivery with regulatory requirements and commercial objectives. In doing so, you’ll support your team’s growth, continuously improve engineering practices, and contribute to shaping the broader investment platform strategy.

Previous experience working with SIPPs or other tax wrappers would be highly advantageous, bringing domain insight that helps accelerate delivery and ensure regulatory alignment. The Tax Wrappers team plays a critical role in driving Assets Under Administration (AUA) on the Seccl platform by delivering market-leading tax wrapper functionality that attracts and retains customers. By ensuring our ISA, SIPP, and other wrapper products are not only compliant and scalable but also innovative and easy to integrate, the team directly contributes to the growth and competitiveness of our platform.

This dynamic and forward-thinking group of engineers is uniquely positioned to unlock new opportunities for product expansion, support rapid delivery of partner propositions, and help Seccl realise its ambition of becoming the go-to investment infrastructure provider.

On a typical day you will…

• Guide and mentor a team of engineers fostering their professional growth and ensuring high performance.
• Set clear, measurable goals with regular performance reviews, development plans, and recognition.
• Collaborate with product managers and engineering leaders to define priorities and align initiatives with broader platform and business goals, including regulatory compliance and AUA growth.
• Provide technical guidance and architectural oversight across tax wrapper systems, including account lifecycle management, transaction flows, and regulatory reporting logic.
• Lead the team in building and maintaining robust services and APIs that support wrapper functionality such as ISAs and SIPPs, ensuring the team adheres to agile methodologies to improve delivery cadence and responsiveness.
• Contribute to hands-on coding, particularly in areas requiring architectural input, prototyping new features, or ensuring critical functionality is delivered to a high standard.
• Contribute to and influence the development of our wrapper product strategy, working closely with Engineering Leadership, Product, and Compliance to shape platform capabilities.
• Ensure performance, scalability, compliance, and security are embedded in all engineering activities, collaborating across squads to ensure tax wrapper services work seamlessly within the broader platform ecosystem.
• Oversee the team’s contribution to production readiness, including monitoring, incident response, and resolution for our services.
• Track and report on delivery metrics, using data to drive continuous improvement in team performance, operational reliability, and time-to-market.

This role’s for you if...

• You have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, enabling you to work effectively across engineering, product, and compliance functions.
• You bring strong mentoring skills and are passionate about fostering team growth and development.
• You’re comfortable working across our stack: Node.js, React, MongoDB, AWS, Lambda, Serverless Framework, and write clean, maintainable code in JavaScript and TypeScript.
• You thrive in a hands-on leadership role where you can contribute to architecture, delivery planning, and stakeholder alignment.
• You’re passionate about building high-impact financial products and want to shape market-leading ISA, SIPP, and other tax wrapper functionality.
• You’ve worked in financial services or investment platforms and understand the regulatory and operational nuances of tax-advantaged accounts.
• You care about building scalable, secure, and compliant services that are easy to integrate and delightful to use.
• You want to be part of a mission-led company that’s transforming how investment infrastructure is built and delivered.

This role isn’t for you if...

• You rely on a lot of top-down direction. Here, you’ll have a lot of freedom and ownership of your role, and you’ll be expected to shape your own progression.
• You’re not comfortable working in a fast-paced environment. Our speed and scalability are what set us apart; you need to be able to act quickly and think on your feet.
• You struggle to follow through on ideas. We value people who do what they say they will. If you care about something, you have the freedom here to make it happen.
• You don’t like change. You’ll get on great here if you relish the ambiguity of rapid growth and are willing to embrace uncertainty.

What’s in it for you…

• A salary between £85,000 and £95,000 – dependant on experience + reviewed annually.
• 27 days holiday + bank holidays (some can be flexible) + day off on your birthday + three days (full time) per year for Dependant leave.
• Two volunteering days per year.
• Length of service award – one month paid sabbatical at eight years.
• 6% employer pension contribution, and life assurance.
• Private medical insurance with AXA Health.
• Enhanced Parental leave.
• MacBook and up to £500 home office set up budget.
• £750 per person learning budget.
• Option to work abroad for up to six weeks a year.
• Health and wellbeing initiatives including free therapy via Wellness Cloud, mental health support via Headspace.
• Strong financial wellbeing focus including access to Octopus Money, Octopus Share Incentive Plan and will writing offering via Octopus Legacy.
• Perkbox – Flexi-points giving you a range of discounts and perks including free weekly coffee, gym and retail discounts.
• Access to initiatives like Cycle to Work and Octopus Electric Vehicle Leasing.

Our culture

We're proud to put people first, creating a culture where we truly listen to what matters most to them. Our transparent and inclusive environment encourages diversity of thought, challenge and experimentation.

Interview 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:

• First stage – 45 mins competencies-based interview with the hiring manager.
• Second stage – one-hour technical interview or assessment.
• 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 aim is to build a diverse and inclusive company of awesome people, with unique skills, passions and experiences. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity or disability status. 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!