Senior Engineering Manager

Flagstone Group LTD; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial technology company in London is seeking a Senior Software Engineering Manager to drive technology strategy and operational excellence. You will lead multiple engineering teams, shape technical vision, and cultivate a high-performance culture. Ideal candidates have significant expertise in distributed systems and agile methodologies, and a passion for innovation. Competitive benefits include hybrid working, a generous bonus scheme, and a personal development budget.

Benefits

Hybrid working

Competitive bonus scheme

Flexible benefits budget

Learning and development budget

Private health care

Enhanced Parental Leave

Qualifications

• Experience managing performance and driving change at scale.
• Ability to question and facilitate architecture design reviews.
• Comfortable with observability tools and engineering metrics.

Responsibilities

• Oversee Engineering Team Leads and collaborate with stakeholders.
• Shape technical strategy and optimise organisational structure.
• Implement scalable and resilient technical solutions.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Exceptional communication

Agile methodologies

Software engineering best practices

Deep knowledge of distributed systems

Infrastructure as code

Talent management

Tools

Azure

Terraform

Cloud-native patterns

Job description

Flagstone is many things. An online savings platform, reinventing how individuals, businesses, and charities manage, protect, and grow their cash. A diverse group of people, bound by a collaborative spirit, and shared purpose. And lastly, a thriving, profitable business – where smart people do their best work.

Each definition shares a common thread: our unique culture. It’s our pride and joy. And our competitive advantage.

A feel for our culture:

To revolutionise the savings market, we need to be at our best. But high performance takes more than talent – it takes a culture of kindness, respect, and growth.

That’s why we’re building a diverse, inclusive community, where your voice is heard and valued. Where, with close support and room to develop, you can surpass even your own expectations. And be rewarded for it.

We may not change the world, but we can change the world of financial technology. And all it takes is a winning mix of drive, talent, and empathy. Our culture celebrates all three.

Does this sound like you?

You’re a Senior Software Engineering Manager with experience of driving impact across multiple teams, who’s excited to forge a new way to save! You will provide strategic leadership, technology strategy, and operational excellence across multiple engineering tribes, driving high-performance teams, fostering a culture of innovation, and ensuring alignment with business goals.

What you’ll do:

This role will directly manage Engineering Team Leads, whilst collaborating closely with Principal Engineers, Staff Engineers and Tribe Owners, acting as a pivotal bridge between Engineering, Product, and other key stakeholders. You will be responsible for shaping technical strategy, optimising organisational design, and cultivating a talent pipeline to support the company's growth trajectory. It requires strong architectural acumen and a hands on appreciation of modern software delivery, with the ability to challenge and guide complex system designs across multiple domains.

This will focus on:

• Strategic Leadership: shape and drive the long term technical vision across tribes, implementing scalable, resilient, and future ready solutions
• Team Management & Development: grow high performing engineering leads and teams through mentorship, performance management, and talent strategy
• Organisational Design & Process Improvement: continuously refine engineering structures, practices, and metrics to boost efficiency, quality, and agile delivery
• Collaboration & Communication: build strong cross functional partnerships, promote engineering excellence, and foster a high trust culture
• Risk & Incident Management: embed a proactive risk culture through robust incident handling, technical governance, and resilience focused practices
• Delivery & Quality: ensure the delivery of high quality, low debt, production ready systems by enabling strong operational ownership and platform leverage.

What you’ll bring:

• Strategic thinking and problem-solving abilities
• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills
• Expertise in agile development methodologies and software engineering best practices
• Deep knowledge of distributed systems, microservice architecture, event-driven design, and cloud-native patterns (i.e. container orchestration)
• Ability to question, contribute to, and facilitate architecture design reviews (RFCs, ADRs) across modern systems
• Experience with cloud platforms (preferably Azure), infrastructure as code (i.e. Terraform), and continuous delivery pipelines
• Comfortable with key observability tools and engineering metrics
• Experience in talent management, coaching, and mentoring
• Managing performance and driving change at scale
• Ability to design and implement effective organisational structures.

How we reward you:

At Flagstone, the benefits extend beyond false gifts like “fruit and snacks”. Instead, we invest in your health, wealth, and professional development. Here’s a selection of our benefits:

• Hybrid working - Spend at least 1 day a week with your team in our collaborative London office
• Competitive bonus scheme - designed to reward and recognise high performance
• Flexible benefits budget - a pot to fund meaningful benefits for you, whether it's hormone or fertility testing, cancer screening, neuro-diversity coaching or something that matters for you.
• A range of salary sacrifice options to help you make tax efficient savings on electric cars, nursery schemes, home and tech goods.
• Around the World scheme - 3 months work from anywhere scheme
• Mental wellbeing support – Access therapy and mental health sessions through Spill
• Learning and development – £1,000 personal development budget to help you grow in your role.
• Private health care - Enjoy all the benefits AXA has to offer, including reduced gym memberships and medical history disregarded
• Medical cash plan - To help you with the costs of dental and optical expenses
• Life insurance and Income Protection- four times your annual salary for peace of mind
• Matched pension contributions up to 5%
• 25 days holiday - plus bank holidays, well-being days and volunteering days
• Enhanced Parental Leave – enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay.

All are welcome.

At Flagstone, we’re assembling a diverse team that defies our industry’s norms. Think this role could suit you? We encourage you to apply, no matter your background.