Senior Engineering Manager – Active Savings Platform

Hargreaves Lansdown; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Hargreaves Lansdown is seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineering Manager to lead a 25–30 person Active Savings engineering team. You will drive delivery, architectural decisions, and improvements across a multi-squad setup in a regulated financial services context.

You will partner with Product and Stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable software, while fostering psychological safety and technical excellence across platforms, APIs, and mobile capabilities.

Qualifications

• Senior technology leader with experience in large-scale regulated environments.
• Proven track record building and scaling software teams (25+).
• Strong communication of architectural decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead and inspire a cross-functional engineering team to deliver software in a regulated context.
• Provide structured leadership for delivery, productivity, and team wellbeing.
• Ensure secure, reliable, scalable services and DevOps excellence across squads.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-functional teams

Agile delivery

DevOps

Security best practices

API design

Mobile tech

React Native

Stakeholder mgmt

Education

Engineering degree

Tools

Java

Spring Boot

GraphQL

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Jenkins

Swift

Kotlin

React Native

Oracle

Job description

Hargreaves Lansdown is seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineering Manager to lead a 25–30 person Active Savings engineering team. You will drive delivery, architectural decisions, and improvements across a multi-squad setup in a regulated financial services context.

You will partner with Product and Stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable software, while fostering psychological safety and technical excellence across platforms, APIs, and mobile capabilities.