Software Engineering Manager
OutThere
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • United Kingdom
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About the role
- Lead & Mentor: Lead and develop a talented team of software engineers, fostering their growth and career progression through clear development goals and coaching.
- Culture: Create a team environment where people are empowered to do great work, discuss challenges candidly and "disagree then commit".
- Talent Acquisition: Take a leading role in hiring, onboarding, and scaling a diverse engineering team to meet the needs of our expanding roadmap.
- Strategic Alignment: Partner with Customer Success to align priorities, capacity, and scope creating clear goals and realistic plans for business-critical initiatives.
- Operational Excellence: Track, predict, and course-correct project status, ensuring the team has the right structure and clarity to deliver consistently and sustainably.
- Stakeholder Management: Translate between technical and business contexts, ensuring stakeholders are informed, aligned, and aware of risks or trade-offs.
- Guidance: Provide technical leadership by guiding the team to design systems that meet both product requirements and long-term operational health.
- System Integrity: Encourage good practices around testing, observability, and resilience, ensuring the core systems remain maintainable and robust.
- Architecture: Participate in engineering-wide leadership initiatives that progress our overall technical strategy and architectural standards.
Requirements
- Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Math, or other STEM fields.
- Experience: 3+ years of engineering management experience, ideally in a scale-up or high-growth fintech environment.
- Technical Mastery: A strong engineering background with proficiency in TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, or Java. You should be able to contribute to technical scoping and design without being "hands-on" in the code daily.
- Domain Knowledge: Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and cloud-native architectures. Experience in SaaS or B2B fintech is highly desired.
- Execution: A proven track record of improving team delivery cadence, reducing quality issues, and building sustainable, healthy teams that deliver consistently.
- Communication: Excellent communication skills with the ability to navigate complexity and ambiguity in a fast-paced environment.
- ****Desirable (Nice to have):**
- Financial Domain Expertise: Previous experience in Fintech or Banking specifically within corporate/investment banking or syndicated lending—is a significant advantage.
- AI & Data Literacy: Familiarity with building or integrating AI/ML services and a "systems-thinking" approach to probabilistic AI behaviours.
- Regulated Environments: Experience operating within frameworks like SOC2, ISO 27001, or GDPR, ensuring "security by design" is part of the team's DNA.
- Data-Driven Management: Familiarity with DORA metrics or Lean/Agile flow metrics to drive measurable team improvements.
- DevFinOps: An interest in cloud cost optimisation and ensuring the core platform scales efficiently as well as reliably.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
TypeScriptJavaScriptPythonJavacloud infrastructuredistributed systemscloud-native architecturesAI/ML servicesDORA metricsLean/Agile flow metrics
Soft Skills
leadershipmentoringcommunicationstakeholder managementstrategic alignmentoperational excellenceteam buildingproblem-solvingadaptabilitycollaboration