Ryft
Software Engineering Manager
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About Ryft
Ryft is a high-growth fintech start-up building the payments platform that powers marketplaces and merchants globally. We handle the secure processing, splitting, and movement of money at scale, so our customers can focus on their business instead of the complexity of payments. We're growing fast, and every hire has a real impact on our trajectory.
About the Job
We're looking for a hands-on Software Engineering Manager to lead one of our core payments squads (Payment Integrations, Merchant Accounts, or Card Present). You'll own the delivery, health, and growth of a team building on our C#/.NET and AWS platform, while staying close enough to the code to earn your engineers' trust.
You'll spend most of your time leading people and unblocking delivery, but you'll stay hands-on, contributing to architecture, reviews, and the occasional build. It's a first-line management role reporting into engineering leadership, with room to grow as we scale the team significantly.
This is a hybrid role based in central Manchester, with 2 days per week in the office.
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Responsibilities
- Lead & Grow People: Line-manage a squad of engineers. Own 1:1s, career development, performance, and hiring as we scale.
- Own Delivery: Drive your squad's roadmap alongside Product. Keep delivery predictable, unblock the team, and manage stakeholders honestly.
- Stay Technical: Contribute to architectural decisions, code reviews, and hands-on work. Set and hold engineering standards.
- Build the Team: Run a high-quality, high-pace hiring bar as we grow. Onboard and mentor new joiners.
- Own Operations: Take ownership of your squad's on-call, incident response, and production health in a regulated payments environment.
- Collaborate: Work across Product, Compliance, and other squads to ship secure, scalable payments features.
Skills Required
- People Leadership: Proven experience line-managing software engineers, including growth, feedback, and performance.
- Technical Credibility: Strong background in C#/.NET and AWS. Able to engage deeply on architecture and code.
- Delivery Track Record: Demonstrated success delivering in a scaling team or startup environment.
- Stakeholder Skills: Clear communicator who can balance business pressure with team health and platform stability.
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Nice to Have
- Payments/Fintech Domain: Experience building payment systems or working in a regulated financial environment.
- Scaling Experience: Track record of hiring and growing a team at pace.
- Architecture: Microservices, RESTful APIs, and containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes).
Why Ryft?
If you want to lead a team shaping the future of payments in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, we'd love to hear from you. We value leaders who stay close to the craft, care deeply about their people, and thrive taking ownership of the systems and teams they build.
Right to Work: Applicants must have the right to work in the UK.
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