(Group) Engineering Manager

Were Capital on Tap
Capital on Tap started because small businesses were underserved. Big banks were slow their products werent fit for purpose and small business owners often couldnt access what they needed. We set out to fix that.

Today were a financial platform - not just a credit card company. We offer a best-in-class business credit card SME-focused spend management platform a savings product that hit 1 billion in funds within its first year and a growing suite of tools and financial products that make running a small business easier.

1000 employees 20bn in annual card spend 200000 customers 17000 Trustpilot reviews averaging 4.7 stars and were profitable. Weve done a pretty good job so far but were just getting started!

This is a Hybrid role the Engineering team work from our London (Moorgate) Offices 2 days per week.

What Youll Be Doing

As an Engineering Manager youll own the health delivery and direction of several product engineering teams and the Team Leads who run them. Youll be a true product partner: your teams exist to build the features and propositions that unlock new commercial revenue streams win new customers and grow revenue from the ones we already serve. Youll make sure what they build is architecturally sound scalable and built to last. Youll also influence product commercial and engineering decisions.

Your success is measured by the leaders you grow around you: developing Team Leads into confident self-directing managers who run their teams without daily oversight.

Commercial and product

• Partner closely with Product and wider stakeholders to identify and deliver the features and propositions that unlock new commercial revenue streams and deepen revenue from existing customers
• Shape the 3 to 12 month roadmap framing technical investment in terms of commercial impact customer value and risk
• Champion the customer in every roadmap discussion and measure projects by how well they solve real customer problems

Architecture and technical direction

• Influence the architectural direction of your teams systems ensuring technical choices are scalable resilient cost-effective and sustainable
• Work with technical leaders to set standards reduce complexity and steer teams away from over-engineered solutions
• Make sound build versus buy and technical debt trade-offs and balance them against product needs

Leadership and delivery

• Lead coach and develop Team Leads helping them manage and grow their own direct reports
• Own predictable iterative and sustainable delivery of quarterly objectives across your teams
• Address underperformance decisively and support Team Leads through complex people situations with integrity and clarity
• Identify and mitigate risks 3 to 6 months out including dependencies and resource gaps
• Contribute to wider company initiatives such as recruitment strategy and organisational design

Were Looking For

• Strong product and commercial instincts with a track record of delivering features or propositions that generated new revenue or grew revenue from existing customers
• A genuinely customer-focused commercially aware and data-informed approach to decision-making
• Demonstrable strength in software architecture and system design: you can set direction challenge designs and weigh trade-offs across scalability cost and maintainability
• Proven experience managing managers or Team Leads and growing them into senior leaders
• A strong people-management track record including hiring development and performance management
• A solid technical background and an understanding of how full-stack teams and codebases work. We and React but we arent zoomed in on your tech stack background.
• A record of leading and delivering complex cross-team projects
• Excellent communication: concise clear and adaptable to audiences from engineers to senior leadership
• Calm stabilising leadership through ambiguity and fast organisational growth
• Experience in a scaling regulated fintech or tech-enabled environment is a plus

Diversity & Inclusion
We welcome consider and encourage applications from anyone who shares our commitment to inclusivity. Join us in creating a space where authenticity thrives and everyone can do their best work.

Great Work Deserves Great Perks
We try not to take ourselves too seriously (all the time) so we make sure our office is decked out with a pool table arcade machine beer tap and a couple of office dogs thrown in for good measure. Check out our benefits:
Private Healthcare including dental and opticians services through Vitality
Worldwide travel insurance through Vitality
Anniversary Rewards (-week fully paid sabbatical)
Salary Sacrifice Pension Scheme up to 7% match
Octopus EV Salary Sacrifice Scheme
28 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
Annual Learning and Wellbeing Budget
Enhanced Parental Leave
Cycle to Work Scheme
Season Ticket Loan
6 free therapy sessions per year
Dog Friendly Offices
Free drinks and snacks in our offices

Check out more of our benefits values and mission here.

Interview Process
First stage: 30 minute intro and values call with your Talent Partner (Video call)
Second stage: 60 minute Technical and Management Interview with a Senior Engineering Manager (Video call)

Third stage: 60 minute System Design Interview with our engineering team (Video call)
Final stage: (120 minutes total) 60 minute Case Study with Product and our Engineering Team 60 minute Good to Great Interview with Jamie our CTO (In person)

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