(Group) Engineering Manager

capitalontap; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Healthcare including dental

Worldwide travel insurance

Anniversary Rewards

Salary Sacrifice Pension Scheme

Cycle to Work Scheme

28 days holiday

Annual Learning and Wellbeing Budget

Enhanced Parental Leave

Octopus EV Salary Sacrifice Scheme

Season Ticket Loan

Job summary

Capital on Tap, a fast-growing fintech in London, is seeking an Engineering Manager to own health, delivery and direction of multiple product engineering teams. You will partner with Product and stakeholders to drive features that unlock revenue and scale systems.

You'll coach Team Leads, shape 3–12 month roadmaps, and balance build vs buy, while mentoring leaders to become senior managers. The role blends technical direction with commercial impact in a hybrid setup.

Qualifications

• Experience managing managers or team leads
• Strong people-management track record including hiring and performance management
• Solid technical background with full-stack understanding; .NET/React experience is a plus
• Ability to shape architecture and system design for scalable solutions
• Customer-focused, data-informed decision making

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop Team Leads and their reports
• Own predictable, iterative delivery of quarterly objectives across teams
• Shape roadmaps and frame technical investment with commercial impact
• Champion customers in roadmap discussions and balance build vs buy
• Influence architectural direction and set standards

Skills

Product & commercial instincts

People management

Software architecture

Leadership

Communication

Full-stack knowledge (React/.NET)

Tools

.NET

React

Job description

We're Capital on Tap

Capital on Tap started because small businesses were underserved. Big banks were slow, their products weren't fit for purpose, and small business owners often couldn't access what they needed. We set out to fix that.

Today we're a financial platform - not just a credit card company. We offer a best-in-class business credit card, SME-focused spend management platform, a savings product that hit £1 billion in funds within its first year, and a growing suite of tools and financial products that make running a small business easier.

1,000+ employees, £20bn in annual card spend, 200,000+ customers, 17,000+ Trustpilot reviews averaging 4.7 stars, and we're profitable. We've done a pretty good job so far, but we're just getting started!

This is a Hybrid role, the Engineering team work from our London (Moorgate) Offices 2 days per week.

What You'll Be Doing

As an Engineering Manager, you'll own the health, delivery and direction of several product engineering teams and the Team Leads who run them. You'll be a true product partner: your teams exist to build the features and propositions that unlock new commercial revenue streams, win new customers and grow revenue from the ones we already serve. You'll make sure what they build is architecturally sound, scalable and built to last. You'll also influence product, commercial and engineering decisions.

Your success is measured by the leaders you grow around you: developing Team Leads into confident, self-directing managers who run their teams without daily oversight.

Commercial and product

Partner closely with Product and wider stakeholders to identify and deliver the features and propositions that unlock new commercial revenue streams and deepen revenue from existing customers

Shape the 3 to 12 month roadmap, framing technical investment in terms of commercial impact, customer value and risk

Champion the customer in every roadmap discussion and measure projects by how well they solve real customer problems

Architecture and technical direction

Influence the architectural direction of your teams' systems, ensuring technical choices are scalable, resilient, cost-effective and sustainable

Work with technical leaders to set standards, reduce complexity and steer teams away from over-engineered solutions

Make sound build versus buy and technical debt trade-offs, and balance them against product needs

Leadership and delivery

Lead, coach and develop Team Leads, helping them manage and grow their own direct reports

Own predictable, iterative and sustainable delivery of quarterly objectives across your teams

Address underperformance decisively and support Team Leads through complex people situations with integrity and clarity

Identify and mitigate risks 3 to 6 months out, including dependencies and resource gaps

Contribute to wider company initiatives such as recruitment strategy and organisational design

We're Looking For

• Strong product and commercial instincts, with a track record of delivering features or propositions that generated new revenue or grew revenue from existing customers
• A genuinely customer-focused, commercially aware and data-informed approach to decision-making
• Demonstrable strength in software architecture and system design: you can set direction, challenge designs and weigh trade-offs across scalability, cost and maintainability
• Proven experience managing managers or Team Leads, and growing them into senior leaders
• A strong people-management track record, including hiring, development and performance management
• A solid technical background and an understanding of how full-stack teams and codebases work. We use .NET and React but we aren't zoomed in on your tech stack background.
• A record of leading and delivering complex, cross-team projects
• Excellent communication: concise, clear and adaptable to audiences from engineers to senior leadership
• Calm, stabilising leadership through ambiguity and fast organisational growth
• Experience in a scaling, regulated, fintech or tech-enabled environment is a plus

Diversity & Inclusion

We welcome, consider and encourage applications from anyone who shares our commitment to inclusivity. Join us in creating a space where authenticity thrives, and everyone can do their best work.

Great Work Deserves Great Perks

• Private Healthcare including dental and opticians services through Vitality
• Worldwide travel insurance through Vitality
• Anniversary Rewards (£250, £500, £750, 4-week fully paid sabbatical)
• Salary Sacrifice Pension Scheme up to 7% match
• Octopus EV Salary Sacrifice Scheme
• 28 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
• Annual Learning and Wellbeing Budget
• Enhanced Parental Leave
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Season Ticket Loa