Engineering Manager II

Zilch; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Death in Service scheme

Income Protection

Share Options Scheme

5% back on in-app purchases

£200 for WFH Setup

Private Medical Insurance

Job summary

Zilch is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead two agile software teams, shaping technical direction and mentoring engineers. You will design architecture, oversee delivery, and collaborate with senior stakeholders including the Head of Engineering and CTO. You’ll balance technical debt with product priorities to drive impact.

You are a hands-on technologist with strong agile practices and a passion for building scalable fintech systems. A Bachelor or Master’s degree is expected.

Qualifications

• 3+ years leading software engineering teams, coaching agile practices.
• Experience in Scrum, Kanban or other delivery methods.
• Bachelor and/or Master’s degree in a relevant field.

Responsibilities

• Lead two agile teams to deliver customer-impact features.
• Design technical aspects and architecture for user stories and delivery plans.
• Prioritise technical debt alongside product deliverables for optimal outcomes.
• Support Head of Engineering and CTO; engage with senior stakeholders.
• Own delivery cadence and quality for your teams.
• Identify and remove obstacles and bottlenecks.

Skills

Agile methodologies

Servant leadership

Mentoring

Team leadership

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree

Tools

Java

React

C#

Job description

Who we are:

We're one of Europe's fastest-growing fintech companies – on a mission to create the world's most empowering way to pay.

We launched the product in 2020 and achieved double unicorn status, valued at $2 billion, and since then have taken on more than 6 million customers.

Our mission is to become the best way to pay for anything, anywhere and say goodbye to credit costs for everyone. This is huge. Want to join us?

About the role:

As our Engineering Manager you'll play a pivotal role as a servant leader, directing, encouraging, and driving the team to excel. Your expertise will guide technical direction, mentor the team, and contribute hands-on. Day to day, you'll lead teams, design technical aspects, prioritise tasks, and support leadership while fostering best engineering practices. In essence, you'll be the catalyst for innovation and success within our engineering department.

Day-to-day responsibilities will include:

• Leading two agile teams to implement features that deliver significant impact for our customers.


• Designing technical aspects and architecture of user stories and plans for delivery to production.


• Prioritising technical debt alongside product deliverables to achieve the best outcomes for Zilch.


• Supporting the Head of Engineering and CTO and interacting with key senior business stakeholders.


• Take ownership for overall delivery cadence and quality for your teams.


• Identifying and removing obstacles and bottlenecks from the team.


• Drive adoption of best engineering practices to improve delivery.


• Mentor and coach team of engineers in agile and lean practice.


• Organising effective knowledge transfer, training, and documentation

What we’re looking for:

• Someone with bags of energy, is happy, passionate and loves helping development teams deliver.


• A person who lives and breathes agile and obsesses about continuous improvement.


• A servant leader who can direct, encourage, assist, track, cajole, and drive a team to want to excel.


• A technologist who can guide technical direction, mentor a team, and get their hands dirty.


• A Bachelor and/or master’s degree.


• 3+ years’ experience leading and managing software engineering teams, including coaching teams on agile practices.


• Experience in Scrum, Kanban or other immediate type delivery.


• Previous experience in developing either Java, React, C# etc.


• 2+ years communicating to key stakeholders.

Bonus skills

• Experience in solutions architecture.


• Experience in managing projects.


• Experience in cloud environments (AWS or equivalent)


• Experience in managing DevOps, Platform or SRE teams.

Benefits. Compensation & Savings:

• Pension scheme.


• Death in Service scheme.


• Income Protection.


• Permanent employees enjoy access to our Share Options Scheme.


• 5% back on in-app purchases.


• £200 for WFH Setup.

Health & Wellbeing:

• Private Medical Insurance including;


• GP consultations (video, telephone or face-to-face).


• Prescribed medication.


• In-patient, day-patient and out-patient care.


• Mental health support.


• Optical, dental & audiological cover.


• Physiotherapy.


• Advanced cancer cover.


• Menopause support.


• Employee Assistance Programme including:
  
  
  
  • Unlimited mental health sessions.
  
  
  • 24/7 remote GP & physiotherapy.
  
  
  • 24/7 helpline for emotional & practical support.
  
  
  
  


• Savings & discounts on everyday shopping.


• 1:1 personalised well-being consultations.


• Gym membership discounts.

Family Friendly Policies:

• Enhanced maternity pay.


• Enhanced paternity pay.


• Enhanced adoption pay.


• Enhanced shared parental leave.

Learning & Development:

• Professional Qualifications.


• Professional Memberships.


• Learning Suite for e-courses.


• Internal Training Programmes.


• FCA & Regulatory training.

Workplace Perks:

• Hybrid working: office-based Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday; remote working Tuesday and Friday


• Casual dress code.


• Workplace socials.


• Healthy snacks.