Squad engineering manager

at  Seccl Technology

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 Together they create pointless complexity for financial planning and investment professionals, and provide outdated, overpriced experiences for customers.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 everyday, 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.

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 ina 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 freeweekly 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 an eligible work permit, we encourage you to apply for this position. 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

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.

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