Engineering Manager
Location: London
Department: Engineering & Product
About Us:
One of the most exciting new fintech companies in the UK, Firenze is fast emerging as the leading Lombard lending offering in the market due to our unique approach and development of a cutting-edge platform. We are on a mission to unlock access to one of the last remaining solutions that are only available to the wealthy through private banks and bring lending secured against your investments to the masses.
Led by a successful 2nd time founder and a team of leading experts across technology and finance, Firenze is backed by some of the world’s most prominent investors.
About The Role:
We are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead our engineering team building our unique Lombard lending platform, for use by both Firenze and our SaaS clients. You will balance hands-on technical leadership with people and delivery management, staying close to the code while owning how your team plans, tracks, and communicates its delivery. This is an exceptional opportunity to shape both the platform and the team building it.
This role requires a strong engineering background with the credibility to review code, guide architectural decisions and define the development approach for solutions across your team. You will collaborate closely with Product and Engineering Leadership and internal stakeholders to ensure delivery is planned realistically, tracked accurately, and communicated transparently across the business.
The ideal candidate combines deep engineering expertise with strong delivery ownership and stakeholder management skills and can move comfortably between shaping technical direction and reporting on progress to the wider business.
Key Responsibilities
- Stay hands-on with the codebase through regular code reviews, providing thoughtful feedback on quality, consistency, and best practice.
- Collaborate on architectural design decisions, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and maintainable.
- Define the development approach for new solutions, working with engineers to agree patterns, trade-offs and technical direction before delivery begins.
- Own technical delivery planning for your team, breaking down work, estimating effort, and setting realistic timelines.
- Manage your team’s day-to-day priorities and focus, balancing planned delivery work against unplanned issues, dependencies, and shifting business needs.
- Track and report on delivery progress, proactively resurfacing risks, blockers, and trade-offs.
- Engage regularly with stakeholders across the business to ensure delivery status, risks, and priorities are communicated clearly and transparently.
- Lead, coach, and develop engineers through 1:1s, career development, and performance feedback.
- Partner with stakeholders to align technical roadmaps with business priorities.
- Champion engineering best practices, including testing, observability, and CI/CD across your team.
- Contribute to a strong engineering culture of ownership, curiosity, and continuous improvement.
Required Skills And Experience
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years managing or leading an engineering team. Fintech experience desirable.
- Strong, credible technical background with the ability to actively participate in code reviews and architectural discussions.
- Proven experience defining development approaches and technical standards for a team.
- Track record of owning technical delivery planning, including estimation, sequencing, and risk management.
- Experience reporting on delivery progress to non-technical stakeholders in a clear, transparent way.
- Solid understanding of cloud-native, microservices-based architectures and modern software engineering practices.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate technical detail for a business audience.
- Experience mentoring and developing engineers, with a genuine interest in growing people as well as systems.
Why join us?
- Competitive salary: £90,000 - £115,000 per year (dependent on experience).
- Equity opportunity: All employees benefit from share options in a fast-growing fintech.
- Performance bonuses: Transparent, milestone-based team bonuses.
- Rewarding the long-term: After five years with Firenze, you are entitled to a paid one-month sabbatical with £1,000 bonus.
- Learning and development: After your first twelve months, you receive an L&D budget of £1,000 a year towards personal or professional development.
- Career growth: An incredible learning journey with opportunities to make a real impact on the future of financial services.
- Ownership and responsibility: Take charge and lead in a meaningful way.
- Collaborative culture: Work with highly ambitious and focused colleagues.
- Generous leave: 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
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Engineering Manager employer: Firenze
Firenze is an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work environment in the heart of London where innovation and collaboration thrive. As a Senior Product Owner, you will have the opportunity to shape a cutting-edge fintech platform while enjoying clear career progression and competitive compensation, including equity participation. Our supportive team culture encourages curiosity and shared ownership, making it a rewarding place for professionals eager to make a meaningful impact in the financial services sector.
