Engineering manager in Edinburgh

The role involves leading one of Seccl’s product engineering squads, helping the team deliver high-quality, scalable platform capability while creating an environment where engineers can do their best work. You’ll play a key role in building strong, psychologically safe engineering teams with a culture of continual learning, trust, empowerment and experimentation. You’ll support engineers through coaching, personal development and line management, while also helping the squad deliver valuable, reliable and well-engineered outcomes.

You’ll work closely with Product managers, Engineering leaders and stakeholders across the business to define priorities, plan delivery and ensure the team is focused on the right outcomes. You’ll help balance delivery pace with engineering quality, operational resilience, security and long-term maintainability. This is a leadership role with delivery, people and engineering accountability.

On a typical day you will be:

• Leading, coaching and mentoring engineers within your squad, fostering a culture of high performance, psychological safety and continuous improvement.
• Supporting the personal development and line management of engineers, helping them grow their skills and progress their careers.
• Partnering closely with Product managers to define priorities, plan delivery and align squad work with Seccl’s commercial, regulatory and platform goals.
• Helping the squad make pragmatic delivery decisions, balancing customer value, technical quality, risk and long-term maintainability.
• Supporting and challenging technical decision-making, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, resilient and well-integrated with the wider platform.
• Remaining hands-on where it adds value, through design reviews, technical discussions, architectural exploration or unblocking complex delivery challenges.
• Working with Engineering leaders and other squads to improve cross-team collaboration, consistency and shared engineering standards.
• Owning delivery health for your squad, including production readiness, incident response, operational resilience and ongoing maintainability.
• Using metrics, feedback and team insight to continuously improve delivery predictability, system reliability and team effectiveness.
• Recruiting and onboarding new team members, helping build teams with the right skills, behaviours and ways of working.
• Contributing to broader engineering initiatives that help Seccl scale, such as improving engineering practices, developing people, strengthening delivery processes and sharing knowledge.

This role’s for you if:

• You’re an experienced Engineering manager who has led complex product domains.
• You have a strong track record of building and scaling teams, including hiring, onboarding, and developing engineers.
• You’re comfortable balancing strategic thinking with hands-on execution, and can lead a squad that delivers value.
• You bring excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills, and can work effectively with Product, Compliance, and senior leadership.
• You’re confident working across our tech stack: Node.js, MongoDB, AWS, Lambda, Serverless Framework, and JavaScript/TypeScript.
• You have recent, practical experience with AI-assisted engineering tools and are comfortable helping teams apply them responsibly to improve delivery, quality and developer effectiveness.
• You enjoy being close to the technology and can provide meaningful technical guidance without needing to be the primary coder.
• You have domain experience in financial services, investment platforms, fintech, or other highly regulated environments.
• You care deeply about building secure, compliant, and scalable systems that are easy to integrate and a pleasure to use.
• You’re motivated by the opportunity to help shape how Engineering operates at Seccl as we continue to grow.

This role isn’t for you if:

• You rely on a lot of top-down direction.
• You’re not comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.
• You struggle to follow through on ideas.
• You don’t like change.

What’s in it for you:

• Salary up to £110,000 – dependant on experience + reviewed annually.
• 27 days holiday + bank holidays (some can be flexible) + day off on your birthday + three days 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.

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.