About us Seccl is the Octopus-owned embedded investment platform that’s helping more people to invest – and invest well. Our sector is being held back by old tech, dismal processes and misaligned interests. Together they create pointless complexity for financial planning and investment professionals, and provide outdated, overpriced experiences for customers. We’re on a mission to fix it. We help forward-thinking financial planners, wealth managers and investment platforms to reimagine their business and client experience – empowering them to build better, more sustainable and more valuable operations, and meet the digital demands of the future, not the baseline expectations of the past. And we do it by reimagining their technology – with a low-cost, hyper-efficient and (genuinely) API-first technology infrastructure that handles millions of requests every day, and powers the portfolios of more than 160,000 investors. A regulated custodian and ISA/SIPP provider, we combine the disruptive mindset and ambitious mission to shake things up, with the commitment and substance to not screw them up. We’re proud to be part of Octopus, the £12.8 billion group that's on a mission to breathe new life into broken industries, through companies like Octopus Energy, Octopus Investments and Octopus Money. TLDR We’re a business with insane product-market fit, impressive early traction and an offering that has the potential to transform an outdated industry for the better. We’ve doubled the size of our business over the last six months and expect to do that a few more times over the next few years. The role We are looking for an enthusiastic and talented Squad Engineering Manager to join our fantastic team. Your experience in JavaScript, Typescript and Node will bring the fuel to accelerate the Seccl rocket ship working in one of our cross-functional squads and shipping quality code frequently to production, helping mentor your colleagues and delivering impactful improvements to our product and system. You embrace change and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment whilst developing great products. The right candidate will do this by building strong product teams and supporting their developers and processes. You will play a key role in the continued development of our strong, psychologically safe engineering culture of continual learning, trust, empowerment, and experimentation. Our development process is based on Scrum, with ceremonies such as daily standups, refinement, planning, retrospectives, and reviews. We empower our teams to decide when and how to conduct these ceremonies. We primarily utilize Node.js with TypeScript, deployed on AWS Lambda, Mongo Atlas for data storage, and React on the front end. On a typical day you will be… Building and nurturing great product teams through personal development and line management of engineers. Ensuring we have the right technical skills in the team to tackle the challenges the business is solving. Recruiting and onboarding new team members. Be a technical leader within the squad. Be influential in setting the technical direction within a squad. Championing a culture of strong modern engineering and agile practices, such as automated testing and small, frequent deploys to production, monitoring and observability. Collaborating with senior stakeholders to deliver cross-team initiatives that contribute to our foundations for growth and success such as training, process improvement, and tech blogs. You’ll be successful if you … Love to develop engineers and their teams and create an enabling environment for them to thrive. Are experienced at working with high performing engineering teams that deliver high quality value. Are collaborative and can see the bigger picture at a systems level as well as the detail. Are passionate about sharing knowledge and experiences with the team, encouraging a culture of learning and collaboration. Are comfortable in a fast-paced, ever-evolving development environment. Have strong communication and leadership skills. Are a curious and continuous learner who develops themselves as well as others. Love to build great products with scale, security, resilience, and a great customer experience. Have experience with full stack development in a fast moving, agile environment. Have excellent server-side development skills in JavaScript, TypeScript and Node.js on a cloud platform and a good understanding of how to write high performance and efficient code. Are passionate about delivering a quality product through comprehensive automated testing, monitoring and observability strategies. Can understand business requirements and turn them into efficient, scalable solutions. Have a desire to learn our business domain. This role isn’t for you if: You rely on a lot of top-down direction. Here, you’ll have a lot of freedom and ownership of your role, and you’ll be expected to shape your own progression You’re not comfortable working in a fast-paced environment. Our speed and scalability is what set us apart; you need to be able to act quickly and think on your feet You struggle to follow through on your ideas. We value people who do what they say they will. If you care about something, you have the freedom here to make it happen You don’t like change. You’ll get on great here if you relish the ambiguity of rapid growth and are willing to embrace uncertainty Our culture We are proud to cultivate a culture first, human environment and genuinely listen to our people about what matters to them most. As a result, we’re proud we’ve cultivated a transparent and inclusive environment that encourages diversity of thought, challenge and experimentation. Our purpose is supported by a series of non-negotiable operating principles that define how we work to deliver value for each other and for our clients: 1. Never settle We think of ourselves as ‘embedded hero-makers’ for our customers. We put them first, and if we say we’ll do something, we’ll move heaven earth to do it. We think boldly and embrace change. 2. Take ownership We think rigorously and deeply about a problem, but then charge at it, acting with and urgency and speed that sets us apart. But we never lose sight on quality or long- term scalability. 3. Be generous and candid We encourage our people – and our customers – to challenge us and never shy away from tough conversations. We have a flat and inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves – and speak up. We have offices in central Bath and Edinburgh, and London. We’re working as a hybrid team supporting each of our people to choose how they work best. We’ve always been supportive of flexible working that focuses on delivery and impact, rather than hours worked. Don’t just take our word for it, check out our Glassdoor page for the latest reviews or our Instagram, and LinkedIn for company updates and insights from the team. What’s in it for you… We offer a generous blend of benefits for the things that really matter to our people, including: 27 days holiday bank holidays (some can be flexible) day off on your birthday. 3 days (full time) per year for Dependant leave 2 days off per year to volunteer for a registered charity of your choice, including our charity partners Aid Box Community and Edinburgh Food Project Length of service award – 1 month paid sabbatical at 8 years. 6% employer pension contribution, and life assurance Private medical insurance with AXA Health Enhanced Parental leave and flexibility to integrate your home and work life in a trusted environment. Will writing offering via Octopus Legacy MacBook and up to £500 home office set up budget £700 per person learning budget. Option to work abroad for up to 6 weeks in the year. Health and wellbeing initiatives including free therapy via Wellness Cloud, mental health support via Headspace. Strong financial wellbeing focus including access to Octopus Money, Octopus Share Incentive Plan and Seccl invest (our own platform for you to manage your investments) Octopus Electric Vehicle scheme after 12 months of employment Perkbox – Flexi-points giving you a range of discounts and perks including free weekly coffee, gym and retail discounts. Cycle to work scheme - saving money on a range of bikes and accessories. Our aim is to build a diverse and inclusive company of awesome people, with unique skills, passions and experiences. We encourage everyone to join us, whatever your gender identity, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age or background. Please note that we do not provide sponsorship for candidates residing outside the UK. However, we welcome applications from individuals who possess valid work permits that allow them to work in the UK. If you already have the right to work in the UK or hold We usually allow around two weeks for sourcing some great candidates so don’t be disheartened if we’re not in touch right away, we’ll let you know the next steps as soon as we can. If you think you have most of what we are looking for, then what are you waiting for? Go ahead and apply. We’d love to hear from you