Engineering Manager

9fin; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job description

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About 9fin

The world's largest asset class, debt, operates with the worst data. Technology has revolutionized equity markets with electronic trading, quant algos and instantaneous news. However, in debt capital markets, the picture is completely different. It still behaves like it's in the 1980s; trillions of dollars of trades are placed over the phone, news is slow, and corporate credit information is imperfect and scattered.

Our mission is to change this. 9fin's proprietary technology delivers fast and comprehensive financial, credit, legal & ESG analysis. Our clients are able to make faster, more informed decisions, win more business and most importantly, save time. Our fast growing list of clients include 9 of the top 10 Investment Banks, leading Asset Managers, Hedge Funds and Law Firms.

What you'll work on

You will be a manager of a cross functional DDEP (Data, Design, Engineering & Product) team as well as a line manager of highly skilled, passionate, dedicated and ambitious software engineers. You will be accountable for workflow optimisation, fostering technical excellence and driving an ambitious and innovative team towards the creation of customer and engineering value. You will collaborate with engineering leadership to design the organisation, hire and foster growth, and create an environment where our engineering org can thrive.

As a leader within our engineering team, you will understand the company strategy and business goals, communicating this to both your reports and the cross-functional team you manage. You will use insights and data to make informed decisions that drive effectiveness and efficiency, including driving technical innovation (eg using genAI to maximize engineer effectiveness).

Every day is different, but here's an example of the kind of things you'll work on:

1. Lead, form and develop a highly performing, highly autonomous cross functional team.
2. Create and maintain an efficient, impactful engineering delivery chain. Build a culture of continuous improvement, focusing on customer impact, whilst balancing tech debt repayment, documentation and engineering best practice.
3. Lead a culture of experimental innovation within a cross functional team, both through mentorship and technical leadership. Utilise your technical expertise to set teams up for success, delivering high product velocity, technical derisking and navigating challenges.
4. Guide the technical strategy of autonomous teams, enabling fast and effective technical decisions through facilitation, technical knowledge and feedback on technical planning, design, system architecture and risk management.
5. Contribute to product strategy, setting project goals. Develop relationships across product, engineering, design and data science, as well as key business stakeholders across 9fin.
6. Cultivate a culture of continuous development of software engineers at 9fin, whilst maintaining work-life balance and a friendly, kind work environment.
7. Line management, coaching and mentoring of direct reports through regular 1-1s, goal setting and feedback.
8. Partner with the people team to design and implement hiring strategies to attract top talent, leading initiatives to enhance 9fin's employer brand in tech markets.

Our Stack

• Typed Python is the dominant backend language used for fastAPI web applications, data & AI workloads.
• React 19 with Vite, Zustand with storybook and playwright for component and e2e testing.
• Paved road IAC infrastructure capabilities for the basis for our cross team developer platform to enable fast prototyping and security best practices.
• Relational Databases (PostgreSQL) at the heart of majority of services but we also use elastic search, OLAP data warehouses and data lakes to power our various data heavy workloads.
• We're AWS for Cloud hosted services.
• Heavy use of AWS lambda Serverless.
• Docker (AWS ECS) for uniform development/deployment from multiple environments.

About You

This role will be a great fit if you:

• Have a deep technical background in a core vertical including full-stack web Development, modern system architecture patterns, cloud engineering or any combination through past experience or prior to transitioning to management.
• Experience in leading the successful fast-paced and iterative delivery of multiple projects, coordinating across multiple teams/functions and both internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience managing performance of teams and individuals with good feedback practices, conflict management skills and the ability to.
• A high personal bar for quality, and the ability to influence high standards onto others.
• Comfortable working with a high degree of autonomy and technical complexity.
• Enjoy speaking directly with real customers to understand their product needs and to positively showcase your team's work.

9fin is an equal opportunities employer

At 9fin we are dedicated to building and promoting a fair and inclusive workplace where everyone can reach their full potential and truly belong. We recognize that building diverse teams enables a more creative and productive environment. If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't perfectly align with the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be who we're looking for - either for this role, or perhaps another.