Engineering Manager

Quantexa; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Healthcare

Pension scheme

25 days annual leave

Work from Home equipment

Cycle to work

Job summary

Quantexa is seeking an experienced software engineering leader to join its UK R&D team. You will collaborate with multiple engineering squads on the Quantexa Platform, driving quality, architecture discussions, and delivery of new components and features.

You will mentor engineers across levels, participate in recruitment and onboarding, and travel occasionally to European offices as needed. A strong background in Scala/Angular, AI-assisted development, and Agile practices is essential.

Qualifications

• Have experience delivering software across the full engineering lifecycle, from design and implementation through to testing and deployment in a live SaaS environment.
• Enjoy identifying and supporting organisational changes that help Engineering teams work more effectively and deliver value.
• Care about designing and delivering well-engineered, high-quality solutions to complex problems.
• Have a background in software development and architecture, including experience with web applications and/or data-intensive systems.
• Are enthusiastic about developing others, with experience across people management practices.
• Bring strong planning and delivery skills, with a good understanding of Agile processes and experience working across multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Work in partnership with multiple Engineering teams, supporting the delivery of new components and features for the Quantexa Platform, while maintaining a strong focus on quality.
• Support, mentor and develop Engineers at all levels, contributing to recruitment, onboarding, learning and progression opportunities across the department.
• Be based in the UK, with occasional travel to our European offices when helpful.
• Bring sufficient technical experience to contribute to architectural and technical discussions and help teams consider the broader context of their decisions.
• Encourage the thoughtful use of AI to support engineering effectiveness and product development, helping teams adopt tools and practices throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Collaborate with Product Managers and Team Leads to plan upcoming work, supporting teams through Agile ways of working.
• Partner with Product Management to understand market needs and align them with Engineering capabilities to create achievable and clear roadmaps.
• Coordinate release activities across Engineering teams and communicate progress to stakeholders to support predictable and well-paced delivery.
• Help teams manage dependencies, identifying risks or blockers early and supporting their resolution.
• Identify opportunities to improve processes, ways of working and collaboration across the department, with a focus on quality, sustainability and scale.
• Work with stakeholders outside the department to understand and respond to their needs in a considered and transparent way.
• Support the day-to-day operational activities of the department

Skills

Software lifecycle

Mentoring

Agile delivery

Engineering collaboration

Tools

Scala

Angular

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

What we’re all about.

Do you ever have the urge to do things better than the last time? We do. And it’s this urge that drives us every day. Our environment of discovery and innovation means we’re able to create deep and valuable relationships with our clients to create real change for them and their industries. It’s what got us here – and it’s what will make our future. At Quantexa, you’ll experience autonomy and support in equal measures allowing you to form a career that matches your ambitions. 41% of our colleagues come from an ethnic or religious minority background. We speak over 20 languages across our 47 nationalities, creating a sense of belonging for all.

The Opportunity

You’ll join our Research and Development department, working closely with our Engineering teams on our core Contextual Decision Intelligence product, the Quantexa Platform. The team focuses on building and improving solutions through thoughtful engineering practices, ensuring the Platform is delivered to a high standard in a sustainable and collaborative way.

Our products process, analyse and present large volumes of data, helping organisations identify unusual and potentially suspicious activity. The user interface supports detailed investigations into fraud and financial crime and helps users explore and understand complex networks.

The R&D department is based across London, Ireland and Malaga, and includes over 100 people working in agile teams made up of Engineers, Designers, QA specialists and others, each contributing to specific areas of the Platform.

Tech Stack

On the back end, our services are primarily written in Scala and deployed as microservices. We value functional and strongly typed programming and make use of libraries such as Cats and Shapeless. We use Akka and Monix to help build scalable and reliable distributed services, and apply patterns such as event sourcing and CQRS in our persistence layer.

The front end is built using modern tools and frameworks including TypeScript, Angular (6+) and ngrx. It has been designed to be extensible and configurable, enabling customisation for different needs.

We also use AI tooling across our software development lifecycle, combining external services such as Claude and Vertex with internally developed tools to support engineering teams and others across Quantexa.

In this role, you will:

• Work in partnership with multiple Engineering teams, supporting the delivery of new components and features for the Quantexa Platform, while maintaining a strong focus on quality
• Support, mentor and develop Engineers at all levels, contributing to recruitment, onboarding, learning and progression opportunities across the department
• Be based in the UK, with occasional travel to our European offices when helpful
• Bring sufficient technical experience to contribute to architectural and technical discussions and help teams consider the broader context of their decisions
• Encourage the thoughtful use of AI to support engineering effectiveness and product development, helping teams adopt tools and practices throughout the software development lifecycle
• Collaborate with Product Managers and Team Leads to plan upcoming work, supporting teams through Agile ways of working
• Partner with Product Management to understand market needs and align them with Engineering capabilities to create achievable and clear roadmaps
• Coordinate release activities across Engineering teams and communicate progress to stakeholders to support predictable and well-paced delivery
• Help teams manage dependencies, identifying risks or blockers early and supporting their resolution
• Identify opportunities to improve processes, ways of working and collaboration across the department, with a focus on quality, sustainability and scale
• Work with stakeholders outside the department to understand and respond to their needs in a considered and transparent way
• Support the day-to-day operational activities of the department

What do I need to have?

• Have experience delivering software across the full engineering lifecycle, from design and implementation through to testing and deployment in a live SaaS environment
• Enjoy identifying and supporting organisational changes that help Engineering teams work more effectively and deliver value
• Care about designing and delivering well-engineered, high-quality solutions to complex problems
• Have a background in software development and architecture, including experience with web applications and/or data-intensive systems
• Are enthusiastic about developing others, with experience across people management practices
• Bring strong planning and delivery skills, with a good understanding of Agile processes and experience working across multiple teams

It would be helpful if you also have experience with:

• Functional programming using Scala or Java, and/or modern front-end frameworks such as Angular (2+)
• Infrastructure-as-Code, containerisation, Kubernetes and CI/CD
• Software delivered both on-premise and as a service
• Automated testing, including functional, integration, performance and user acceptance testing

Why join Quantexa?

Our perks and quirks.

What makes you Q will help you to realize your full potential, flourish and enjoy what you do, while being recognized and rewarded with our broad range of benefits.

We offer:

• Competitive salary & Company bonus
• 25 days annual leave (with the option of buying up to 5 days, and rolling over up to 10), plus national holidays + your birthday off!
• Pension scheme with a company contribution of 6% (when you contribute 3%)
• Private Healthcare, including dental & optic cover
• Life Insurance and Income Protection
• Regularly bench-marked salary rates
• Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, Adoption, or Shared Parental Leave
• Well-being days
• Volunteer Day off
• Work from Home Equipment
• Commuter, Tech and cycle to work schemes
• Free Subscription to a meditation, relaxation and sleep app
• Continuous Training and Development
• Spend up to 2 months working outside of your country of employment over a rolling 12-month period with our 'Work from Anywhere' policy
• Team Social Budget & Company-wide Socials

Our mission.

We have one mission. To help businesses grow. To make data easier. And to make the world a better place. We’re not a start-up. Not anymore. But we’ve not been around that long either. What we are is a collection of bright, passionate minds harnessing complexities and helping our clients and their communities. One culture, made of many. Heading in one direction – the future.

It’s all about you.

We want you to feel welcome, valued, and respected - because it’s your individuality and passion that make you Q. We see that, and we celebrate it. That’s why we’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse work environment, continuously improving to ensure everyone belongs. Our recruitment process is designed to be inclusive and accessible.

If you need any reasonable adjustments or accommodations, please let our Talent Acquisition Team know - we’re happy to assist.

No matter your race, beliefs, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, neurodiversity, or abilities—whoever you are—if you're a passionate, curious, and caring human eager to push the boundaries of what’s possible, we want to hear from you.