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Engineering Manager

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About the Company
We are supporting a confidential search for an established FinTech with a small team
Based in London with 1/2 days per week in office
About the Role
They are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead and enable a growing engineering team of around 10-15 engineers (FE, BE and Mobile). This is a delivery and people focused leadership role for someone who can bring greater clarity, structure and momentum to engineering.
Responsibilities
- Lead, support and develop a team of approximately 10-15 engineers.
- Improve delivery, prioritisation and collaboration across Engineering and Product.
- Translate product and business priorities into clear, achievable engineering plans.
- Remove blockers and establish the structure the team needs to deliver consistently.
- Empower engineers to own technical decisions while providing appropriate challenge and direction.
- Balance technical considerations with customer, product and commercial outcomes.
- Support the team through its next phase of development and organisational growth.
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Qualifications
- Proven experience managing and developing software engineering teams.
Required Skills
- Strong technical credibility, without needing to be a deeply hands-on architect or coding-focused manager.
- A track record of improving engineering delivery and establishing clear priorities.
- Strong collaboration with Product and other business stakeholders.
- A supportive, empowering leadership style rather than a highly directive approach.
- Good commercial and product awareness.


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Preferred Skills
- Experience within fintech, ideally consumer fintech.
- Direct lending experience would be particularly valuable, although it is not essential.
- Experience with KYC, regulated products or broader financial services environments would also be relevant.
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