Engineering Manager

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

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Birthday day off

Holiday loyalty

Work abroad scheme

Pension scheme via salary exchange

Discretionary annual bonus

Healthcare & wellbeing platform

Cycle to work

Job summary

IFX Payments in London is hiring to lead the Banking and FX tribe, owning payment processing, FX pricing and trading, the ledger, reconciliation, and client portal. You will supervise six to eight engineers, driving tribe delivery and OKRs while collaborating with product, design and stakeholders to convert client problems into shipped software.

This role is not fully hands-on, but you should be technically capable to review code, guide the team, and resolve tough decisions with a balance of

Qualifications

• Experience leading and managing engineers, including hiring, performance, and difficult conversations.
• Strong C#, Azure and SQL. Able to review designs and assess risks with credibility.
• Delivered in teams running business-critical services in production.
• Comfort with asynchronous, event-driven systems and their failure modes.
• Product-minded, able to articulate why a piece of work matters to a client.
• Ability to handle ambiguity and decide when to push a technical boundary.
• Experience building software with AI; not just interest.
• Background in regulated work with evidence-driven changes to money movement.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery and OKRs for the tribe, forecast and sequence work, flag delays early.
• Collaborate with product, design and stakeholders to turn client problems into shipped software.
• Apply agile practices that create real agility and cut ceremonies.
• Communicate with leadership and keep stakeholders informed early.
• Lead and grow a team of six to eight engineers, including one-on-ones and onboarding.
• Set high standards for mentoring, feedback, design/code reviews and growth.
• Demonstrate urgency and ownership by doing, aim for progress over perfection.
• Share technical direction with senior engineers and ensure decisions are documented.
• Maintain quality and testing standards; focus on building it right the first time.
• Improve security posture and incident response for production services.
• Define how the team uses AI, balance benefits with risks.
• Work with compliance and risk to ensure money-movement changes have evidence.

Skills

People leadership

C#

Azure

SQL

Asynchronous systems

Product-minded

Ambiguity tolerance

AI with real impact

Regulated environment

Tools

.NET

Azure

SQL Server

Job description

Description

• This role leads the Banking and FX tribe, which owns payment processing, FX pricing and trading, the ledger, reconciliation, bank integrations, FIX engine connectivity, payment compliance, and the client portal.
• You will manage six to eight engineers and own the tribe's delivery and OKRs. You'd work with product, design and stakeholders across the business to turn client problems into things we actually ship and support.
• This is not a fully hands-on role, but you need to be technical enough to help your team when they need it, review code, and break the tie when a decision has to be made.

Department: Technology

Location: London

Overview of the role

• This role leads the Banking and FX tribe, which owns payment processing, FX pricing and trading, the ledger, reconciliation, bank integrations, FIX engine connectivity, payment compliance, and the client portal.
• You will manage six to eight engineers and own the tribe's delivery and OKRs. You'd work with product, design and stakeholders across the business to turn client problems into things we actually ship and support.
• This is not a fully hands-on role, but you need to be technical enough to help your team when they need it, review code, and break the tie when a decision has to be made.

Key Responsibilities

• Own delivery and OKRs for the tribe. Forecast it, sequence it, and say early when something is slipping.
• Work with product, design and stakeholders to turn client problems into shipped software. Push past the first solution someone offers to the problem underneath it.
• Take the parts of agile that create real agility: small changes, short feedback loops, and being able to change direction when a client need does. Drop the parts that are just ceremony.
• Manage up. Keep leadership and the people who need to know informed early, especially when the news isn't good.
• Lead a team of six to eight engineers, covering one-on-ones, progression and performance, plus hiring and onboarding as the team changes.
• Set a high bar and grow people into it. Mentoring, honest feedback, design and code review. Challenge people because you want them to be better, not to win the point.
• Set the tone on urgency and ownership by doing it yourself. Progress over perfection, and finish what the tribe starts.
• Share technical direction with the senior engineers. Run the discussion, break the tie when there is one, and make sure the decision gets written down.
• Hold the line on quality and testing standards. We'd rather do it right than do it twice.
• Improve the team's security posture. Who can reach what, and how quickly we shut things down when something surfaces.
• Run the tribe's services in production. Client money moves through them, so incident response, on-call health and observability are yours. Reviews are blameless, and what we learn has to change something.
• Decide how the team uses AI. We use Claude Code every day and want a manager with a view on where it helps and where it's quietly making a mess.
• Work with compliance and risk so changes to how money moves carry evidence. Where a process gets in the way of good engineering, argue for changing it.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Experience leading and managing engineers, including the hard parts: hiring, performance, and the conversations nobody enjoys.
• Strong C#, Azure and SQL. Enough depth to review a design, see the risk in it, and be taken seriously by senior engineers.
• You've delivered in a team that ran its own business-critical services in production.
• Comfort with asynchronous, event-driven systems and the failure modes that come with them. Most of what we build works that way.
• Product-minded, and able to say why a piece of work matters to a client without reaching for the roadmap.
• Enough tolerance for ambiguity to absorb some of it instead of passing it all down.
• You know when to hold a technical line and when to let the team make a call you'd have made differently.
• Real experience building software with AI, not just an interest in it.
• A background in regulated work, where changes to how money moves need evidence behind them.

Useful but not required

• Payment processing systems
• Double-entry ledgers
• FX products and pricing
• Reconciliation and breaks
• Payment compliance
• Bank and scheme integrations
• FIX protocol and market connectivity

Our Development Environment

• .NET 10, SQL Server and Azure, with the right tool for each job rather than a house framework for everything.
• Azure DevOps for planning and CI/CD.
• Grafana and Application Insights for observability.
• Claude Code in daily use.
• Short paths between a decision and it being live.

Benefits

• Time to Recharge
  • 25 days’ annual leave, plus bank holidays
  • An extra day off for your birthday
  • Holiday loyalty scheme rewarding long-term service
  • Work abroad scheme for added flexibility
• Financial Wellbeing
  • Competitive pension scheme via salary exchange
  • Annual discretionary bonus scheme (eligible after probation)
  • Financial education, planning & coaching platform
  • Interest-free Season Ticket Loan for London travel
  • Salary exchange nursery fee scheme
• Health & Wellbeing
  • Life Insurance
  • Healthcare platform including:
    • Cashback on dental, optical & physio
    • Virtual GP access
    • Mental health and stress support helplines
    • Additional wellbeing resources
• Family & Lifestyle Support
  • Enhanced parental leave
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Flexible benefits that support everyday life
• Growth & Career Development
  • Career development and progression tools
  • Opportunities to grow within a fast-scaling international business
• A Great Team Culture

From sporting events and pub nights to seasonal celebrations and socials, we make time to connect and celebrate together.

Diversity & Inclusion

We believe that diversity and inclusion are essential to our success. We are committed to fostering a culture where everyone feels valued and respected, regardless of their background, identity or experiences. By embracing diverse perspectives and promoting equity, we aim to create an environment where all employees can perform and reach their full potential.

What’s next?

• We will review your application and come back to you as soon as possible.
• You must be eligible to work in the UK to be considered for this position.
• Full background checks will be carried out on all successful candidates.