Engineering Manager

CFC; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

CFC in London seeks an Engineering Manager to lead high-performing teams delivering scalable, product-led software with speed and quality.

You'll own end-to-end delivery, balance technical strategy with people leadership, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Product and Platform to shape roadmaps and priorities while maintaining strong observability and reliability. This hands-on role emphasizes ownership, continuous improvement, and measurable impact across the tech stack.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading engineering teams in product-led environments.
• Strong delivery focus, with experience owning projects end-to-end.
• Solid technical background with the ability to guide design and architecture decisions.
• Experienced working closely with Product to deliver against roadmaps.
• Passion for engineering excellence, quality, and continuous improvement.
• Strong people leadership — coaching, mentoring, and developing high‑performing teams.
• Comfortable managing ambiguity and driving clarity in complex environments.
• Excellent stakeholder communication and collaboration skills.
• A proactive, outcome-driven mindset with a focus on impact over process.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of engineers, providing technical guidance and mentorship
• Own delivery from ambiguous requirements through to production‑ready solutions
• Partner with Product and Agile to shape priorities, sizing, and roadmap delivery
• Drive high standards across quality, scalability, performance, and reliability
• Manage technical debt while delivering new features at pace
• Ensure strong observability, incident response, and engineering best practices
• Collaborate across teams to manage dependencies and align delivery
• Foster a culture of technical excellence, continuous improvement, and automation
• Work with Platform and Architecture to evolve technical strategy
• Build a high-performing, inclusive team focused on ownership and outcomes
• Hire, coach, and grow engineers, with clear goals and regular feedback
• Contribute to wider engineering initiatives and community growth

Skills

People leadership

Delivery

Architecture guidance

Stakeholder management

Mentoring

Job description

Description

As an Engineering Manager, you will lead high-performing engineering teams to deliver scalable, high-impact products in a fast-moving, product-led environment.

Department

Technology

Location

UK - London

About the role

You’ll own delivery end-to-end, ensuring your team builds reliable, scalable solutions at pace. This is a hands‑on leadership role where you’ll balance execution, technical strategy, and team development — keeping quality high while enabling fast, continuous delivery.

• Lead and develop a team of engineers, providing technical guidance and mentorship
• Own delivery from ambiguous requirements through to production‑ready solutions
• Partner with Product and Agile to shape priorities, sizing, and roadmap delivery
• Drive high standards across quality, scalability, performance, and reliability
• Manage technical debt while delivering new features at pace
• Ensure strong observability, incident response, and engineering best practices
• Collaborate across teams to manage dependencies and align delivery
• Foster a culture of technical excellence, continuous improvement, and automation
• Work with Platform and Architecture to evolve technical strategy
• Build a high-performing, inclusive team focused on ownership and outcomes
• Hire, coach, and grow engineers, with clear goals and regular feedback
• Contribute to wider engineering initiatives and community growth

About you

You’re a product-focused Engineering Manager who thrives on building teams, delivering value, and shaping how engineering work gets done. You balance technical depth with strong leadership — able to guide engineers, influence stakeholders, and drive outcomes in complex environments. Also:

• Proven experience leading engineering teams in product‑led environments
• Strong delivery focus, with experience owning projects end-to-end
• Solid technical background with the ability to guide design and architecture decisions
• Experienced working closely with Product to deliver against roadmaps
• Passion for engineering excellence, quality, and continuous improvement
• Strong people leadership — coaching, mentoring, and developing high‑performing teams
• Comfortable managing ambiguity and driving clarity in complex environments
• Excellent stakeholder communication and collaboration skills
• A proactive, outcome-driven mindset with a focus on impact over process

Core Values

Love what you do

We show up each day ready to take on the world. Our passion and intensity set us apart and makes the difference to our colleagues, customers, brokers and carriers.

Challenge everything

We’re never afraid to question the way that we’re doing things and we constantly challenge ourselves and others to makes things better.

Have fun, be good

Insurance is a serious business, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously. We make it fun to work at CFC, we welcome all viewpoints, and we treat everyone how we would expect to be treated.