Engineering Manager II

Who we are: Zilch is a payment tech company on a mission to create the most empowering way to pay for anything, anywhere. Combining the best of debit, credit and savings, we give our customers the option to earn instant cashback or spread the cost of pricier purchases, completely interest free and with no late fees. Pretty great, right? We started in 2018 with a small team and a big dream - to make credit accessible to all. Since then, we've achieved double unicorn status and taken on more than 5 million customers. There are some exciting projects coming up and we’ve got big growth plans. Want to join us? About the role: As our Engineering Manager you'll play a pivotal role as a servant leader, directing, encouraging, and driving the team to excel. Your expertise will guide technical direction, mentor the team, and contribute hands-on. Day to day, you'll lead teams, design technical aspects, prioritise tasks, and support leadership while fostering best engineering practices. In essence, you'll be the catalyst for innovation and success within our engineering department. Day-to-day responsibilities will include: • Leading two agile teams to implement features that deliver significant impact for our customers. • Designing technical aspects and architecture of user stories and plans for delivery to production. • Prioritising technical debt alongside product deliverables to achieve the best outcomes for Zilch. • Supporting the Head of Engineering and CTO and interacting with key senior business stakeholders. • Take ownership for overall delivery cadence and quality for your teams. • Identifying and removing obstacles and bottlenecks from the team. • Drive adoption of best engineering practices to improve delivery. • Mentor and coach team of engineers in agile and lean practice. • Organising effective knowledge transfer, training, and documentation What we’re looking for: • Someone with bags of energy, is happy, passionate and loves helping development teams deliver. • A person who lives and breathes agile and obsesses about continuous improvement. • A servant leader who can direct, encourage, assist, track, cajole, and drive a team to want to excel. • A technologist who can guide technical direction, mentor a team, and get their hands dirty. • A Bachelor and/or master’s degree. • 3+ years’ experience leading and managing software engineering teams, including coaching teams on agile practices. • Experience in Scrum, Kanban or other immediate type delivery. • Previous experience in developing either Java, React, C# etc. • 2+ years communicating to key stakeholders. Bonus skills • Experience in solutions architecture. • Experience in managing projects. • Experience in cloud environments (AWS or equivalent) • Experience in managing DevOps, Platform or SRE teams. Benefits. Compensation & Savings: Pension scheme. Death in Service scheme. Income Protection. Permanent employees enjoy access to our Share Options Scheme. 5% back on in-app purchases. £200 for WFH Setup. Health & Wellbeing: Private Medical Insurance including; GP consultations (video, telephone or face-to-face). Prescribed medication. In-patient, day-patient and out-patient care. Mental health support. Optical, dental & audiological cover. Physiotherapy. Advanced cancer cover. Menopause support. Employee Assistance Programme including: Unlimited mental health sessions. 24/7 remote GP & physiotherapy. 24/7 helpline for emotional & practical support. Savings & discounts on everyday shopping. 1:1 personalised well-being consultations. Gym membership discounts. Family Friendly Policies: Enhanced maternity pay. Enhanced paternity pay. Enhanced adoption pay. Enhanced shared parental leave. Learning & Development: Professional Qualifications. Professional Memberships. Learning Suite for e-courses. Internal Training Programmes. FCA & Regulatory training. Workplace Perks: Hybrid working: office-based Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday; remote working Tuesday and Friday Casual dress code. Workplace socials. Healthy snacks.