ABOUT US

Seccl is the Octopus-owned embedded investment platform that’s on a mission to helping more people to invest – and invest well.
We’re B-Corp certified with an amazing product-market fit, impressive early traction and the potential to transform an outdated industry, for the better. We’ve been growing fast and will scale even faster over the next few years.
We’re also proud to be part of Octopus, the £multi billion group that’s on a mission to breathe new life into broken industries, through companies like Octopus Energy, Octopus Investments and Octopus Money.
Check out the Seccl website for the latest on our products and our mission to shape the future of investments.

THE ROLE

We’re looking for a Squad Engineering Manager to lead our Cloud Resilience team—a critical squad within our engineering organisation responsible for the core infrastructure that powers our cloud-native investment platform.
This is a hands-on leadership role combining deep technical insight, strong stakeholder engagement, and strategic delivery. You’ll be responsible for shaping and delivering the roadmap. You’ll also be line managing the engineers in your squad, supporting their growth, career development, and wellbeing, and helping shape the future team through recruitment and onboarding.
Our team ensures the core investment platform remains reliable, secure, and scalable, supporting the needs of product squads while keeping operational complexity low. We empower squads to build and run their own services by providing self-service platforms, tooling, and guidance, rather than acting as a centralised infrastructure team that owns and operates everything end-to-end.
We’re primarily in AWS, utilising Lambda, ECS, SQS, API Gateway among others. Our database engine is MongoDB and our observability platform is Datadog. Our application is written in Typescript/NodeJS and our infrastructure is defined in Terraform.

THIS ROLE’S FOR YOU IF…

• You’re a strong engineering leader with experience building and running resilient cloud platforms, and you enjoy leading teams that sit at the intersection of infrastructure and product.
• You’re a pragmatic software engineer—comfortable with JavaScript/TypeScript but also open to other languages like Go or Python.
• You take a product mindset to platform work: engaging with stakeholders, framing problems, setting priorities, and communicating trade-offs.
• You enjoy collaborating across engineering, product, and operations to align goals and ensure platform stability and scalability.
• You care deeply about operational excellence, automation, and making things reliable, secure, and easy to use.
• You’ve led or contributed to modern cloud-native environments and are fluent in AWS best practices, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), and monitoring (Datadog).
• You thrive in an environment where you’re empowered to define direction, drive delivery, and represent your team’s work to the wider business.
• You want to be part of a company on a mission to transform investment infrastructure through thoughtful technology and strong engineering culture.

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 are what set us apart; you need to be able to act quickly and think on your feet
• You struggle to follow through on 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