Engineering Manager

About Griffin

We’re Griffin! We’re the bank for companies who want to build and launch financial products. Our context is that we are rapidly heading towards a future where most of us access financial services through technology companies rather than high street banks. Companies are now embedding financial products into their apps and user journeys so that their customers can seamlessly make payments, manage expenses, take out loans, save, invest, and do more. The problem is that companies are still dependent on legacy banking infrastructure if they want to offer regulated financial products. They need to either partner directly with an incumbent bank or stitch together middleware from various Banking as a Service (BaaS) providers. This process is slow, expensive, and complex, making it very hard for companies to get new financial products off the ground. At Griffin, we want to change this.

Our purpose is to make it easy for companies to bring finance to their customers at the point of greatest relevance. So, we built a bank. But not just any bank! Griffin is a technology platform and a bank: fully regulated, API‑first, developer‑centric, and purpose‑built to serve innovative fintechs and brands who want to build and embed financial products.

Our culture is our most important asset, and one of the ways we safeguard it is by being extremely intentional about hiring the right people. We won’t hire people who don’t seem like a strong fit for our core values, even if they’re otherwise extremely qualified. We believe that smart, motivated, conscientious people thrive in high‑trust, high‑autonomy environments. That’s why we’re transparent by default, and we encourage open discussion and challenge across all levels of the organisation. We’re also remote‑first, asynchronous, and fully flexible – because you’re the expert on how and when you do your best work.

The Craft Function has seven Engineering teams within Craft: Banking, Infrastructure, Onboarding and Financial Crime, Payments, Platform, Cards, and Tooling. Each team is cross‑functional, with the Product, Design, and Engineering skills required to discover, shape, architect, build, test, and run end‑to‑end features. Rather than “move fast and break things”, we aim to move thoughtfully and make few mistakes. We are an output‑driven environment that operates with extreme autonomy; people are free to keep their own hours and we don’t micromanage each other. Our backend stack is Clojure, FoundationDB, Bazel, Kubernetes, and AWS. Our frontend stack is CLJS, Reframe, but we are moving towards Svelte.

Who are you? You’re a capable IC who is able to ship high‑quality code but is equally passionate about helping other engineers achieve their goals and become the best engineers they can. You have a solid understanding of what good looks like for a high‑performing engineering team of different skillsets and experience levels. You actively look for cross‑functionality and have experience working with product and operations teams. You have worked with functional languages (Clojure, Haskell, Erlang, Elixir etc.) in production.

What will you be doing here?

• Be a leader of one or more teams, taking accountability for their deliveries and the health of their technology.
• Manage your team’s delivery cycles, ensuring that development work is ready to be picked up, estimated, and prioritised to optimise output.
• Support team delivery, dedicating 10‑20 hours per week writing code, debugging, and participating in code review.
• Support the team in maintaining a high technical standard and best working practices including documentation.
• Coach your teams in everything from architectural vision to operational excellence.
• Collaborate with the CTO and product management team to set and execute against the right goals.
• Develop engineers on the team, helping them advance in their careers.
• Take a prominent role in recruiting across engineering and product.

How do I apply? Are we your next move? Apply via the link below; if there’s a match, our Talent team will reach out to schedule an initial conversation and talk you through what happens next.

We’re remote‑first. We have a small London office in Moorgate, but we are comfortable hiring people to work from anywhere in the UK. About a third of the company is based within occasional commuting distance of London; the rest are full‑time remote.

Under representation: Our goal is for Griffin to proportionally represent the diversity of the working population in society. We’re working to ensure that Griffin is a supportive, empowering, and inclusive environment for every member of our team — whatever your combination of race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation, physical ability, nationality, neurodiversity, and religious beliefs. If you’re part of a group that is under‑represented in fintech, we’d love to hear from you.