Engineering Manager in London

About Griffin

We’re the bank for companies who want to build and launch financial products. Our context: We’re rapidly heading towards a future where most of us access financial services through technology companies rather than high street banks. All sorts of 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 and/or stitch together middleware from various Banking as a Service (BaaS) providers. This process is slow, expensive, and complex and makes it very hard for companies to get new financial products off the ground. At Griffin, we want to change this.

Our purpose: We want 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: 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 also 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: We have 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? We’re looking for an Engineering Manager who:

• Genuinely cares about helping engineers grow and succeed in their careers
• Has experience building high-performing teams with diverse skills and experience levels
• Actively collaborates with product and operations teams
• Has production experience with functional languages (Clojure, Haskell, Erlang, Elixir, etc.) and can contribute quality code when needed

What will you be doing here? As an Engineering Manager at Griffin, you’ll:

• Lead one or more teams and take responsibility for their deliveries and technical health
• Manage delivery cycles - ensuring work is properly prepared, estimated, and prioritised
• Stay hands-on with 10-20 hours per week of coding, debugging, and code reviews
• Help maintain high technical standards and solid working practices, including documentation
• Coach your teams on everything from architecture to operations
• Work closely with our CTO and product team to set and achieve the right goals
• Support engineers’ career development and growth
• Play an active role in hiring 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.

Griffin Bank Ltd request that recruitment agencies do not speculatively submit CVs to any employee or associate of our company unless explicitly asked to do so by a member of our Talent team. Any CVs sent to any member of our team on a speculative basis will not be recognised and we will not accept liability for any fee or commission should we subsequently employ a candidate who applied to us directly or was introduced by an instructed agency that may also have been submitted speculatively by an uninstructed agency.