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Engineering Manager
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Engineering Manager
Engineering Manager
Function: Tech
Location: Hybrid – London
About the Role
At Compare the Market, we’re a purpose-driven business powered by tech and AI. Our mission is to help millions make financial decisions effortlessly. We build high-performing, agile teams that deliver results, embrace challenge, and foster an environment where authenticity and growth are valued.
You’ll join an ambitious, fast-paced team that thrives on accountability and impact. As a Tech Function Engineering Manager, you’ll pivotal role is to shape a world-class engineering function rooted in technical excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement. You’ll balance long-term planning with execution, empowering engineers to solve meaningful challenges while ensuring systems scale effectively.
Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing engineering team.
- Recruit, develop, and retain top-tier engineering talent.
- Foster a culture of ownership, psychological safety, and continuous improvement.
- Drive technical excellence and establish standards for best practices.
- Own the technical health, reliability, and scalability of critical customer-facing systems in alignment with SLAs.
- Partner with Staff and Principal Engineers on architectural decisions and long-term technical strategy.
- Collaborate with Product Managers to balance delivery pace, customer value, and technical debt reduction.
- Champion Agile methodologies and implement data-driven engineering improvements.
- Drive adoption of AI-augmented engineering practices, such as Spec-Driven Development, and enhance developer tooling.
- Ensure engineering practices align with governance, security, and risk compliance expectations.
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Requirements
We’re seeking a strategic leader with:
- Proven experience leading high-performing software engineering teams in a modern tech organisation.
- Core competence in software engineering, with experience in scaling, maintainability, and architectural frameworks.
- Exceptional communication skills to guide technical direction, mentor teams, and interface between engineering and business stakeholders.
- A passion for developer experience (DX) enhancements and improving workflows through automated tooling and AI integration.
- Comfort with Agile methodologies and a focus on iterative improvements.
- Strong familiarity with DevOps principles and cloud-native technologies to support engineers in working at scale.
- Gumption to embed governance, risk mitigation, and compliance standards.
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Bonus considerations include:
- Practical involvement in building or maintaining systems using distributed architectures anditando some of the complexity of large scale deployments.
- Initiative to improve productivity metrics, strategic alignment, and predictive collaboration across engineering functions.
Why Compare the Market?
- Think differently, act boldly: Growth mindset and results-driven culture aren’t empty buzzwords here—they’re ingrained in everything we do.
- Purpose-driven work: Your contribution directly impacts millions of users every day.
- Manageable hybrid culture: Hygge with a pinch of hustle—enjoy hybrid flexibility with a can-do attitude.
- Inclusive, diverse, supportive: We aren’t just talking about culture—we’re practising it. Our top 1% retention rate speaks for itself.
- Build for impact: Need to rise to a challenge? Our career growth pathways are studded with CEOs, portfolio builders, and mission-shapers—we can provide you with the learning, development, and sponsorship to get there.
Ready to help? If you’re ready to raise the bar, make waves, and stretch yourself, we’d love to hear how you could grow with us. Apply now to make tech work for better decision-making, one impactful role at a time.
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