Engineering Manager

Immersum; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Holiday entitlement

Healthcare

Parental leave

Job summary

Immersum partners with a global payments business to hire an Engineering Manager who will lead the Banking & FX tribe, overseeing 6–8 engineers across payments, FX, ledgers and banking integrations.

This leadership role emphasizes people-first management with technical depth to challenge decisions, own delivery, and mentor the team, while aligning with product and business stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Proven experience managing and leading software engineers.
• Strong C#, Azure and SQL knowledge.
• Experience owning business-critical production services.
• Understanding of asynchronous/event-driven systems.
• Strong product mindset and commercial awareness.
• Comfortable making technical decisions and challenging when needed.
• Experience working with AI in software development.
• Background in a regulated environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of 6–8 engineers.
• Own delivery, OKRs, forecasting and prioritisation.
• Work closely with Product, Design and business stakeholders.
• Turn client problems into software that gets shipped and supported.
• Set technical direction alongside senior engineers.
• Maintain high standards around quality, testing, security and reliability.
• Own production services, incidents, on-call and observability.
• Drive mentoring, progression, performance and hiring.
• Champion pragmatic agile ways of working.
• Shape how the team uses AI, including Claude Code.

Skills

Leadership of software engineers

C#

Azure

SQL

Production services ownership

Event-driven architectures

Product mindset

AI in software development

Regulated environment experience

Tools

Claude Code

Job description

Hybrid – London | 2–3 days per week in office

Immersum is partnering with a global payments business looking for an Engineering Manager to lead their Banking & FX tribe, managing a team of 6–8 engineers working across payments, FX, ledgers and banking integrations.

This is a people-first leadership role with enough technical depth to challenge decisions, support engineers and own delivery.

The Role:

• Lead and manage a team of 6–8 engineers
• Own delivery, OKRs, forecasting and prioritisation
• Work closely with Product, Design and business stakeholders
• Turn client problems into software that gets shipped and supported
• Set technical direction alongside senior engineers
• Maintain high standards around quality, testing, security and reliability
• Own production services, incidents, on-call and observability
• Drive mentoring, progression, performance and hiring
• Champion pragmatic agile ways of working
• Shape how the team uses AI, including Claude Code

What We’re Looking For:

• Proven experience managing and leading software engineers
• Strong C#, Azure and SQL knowledge
• Experience owning business-critical production services
• Understanding of asynchronous/event-driven systems
• Strong product mindset and commercial awareness
• Comfortable making technical decisions and challenging when needed
• Experience working with AI in software development
• Background in a regulated environment

Why Join:

• Lead a genuinely business-critical engineering function
• High level of ownership and autonomy
• Modern .NET 10, Azure and AI tooling
• Strong focus on engineering quality and people development
• Bonus, 25 days holiday + bank holidays, healthcare, enhanced parental leave and more