Engineering Manager

JOB TITLE: Engineering Manager

SALARY: £90,440 - £106,400 per annum

LOCATION: Leeds

HOURS: Full-time – 35 hours

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our Leeds office.

About this opportunity…

Exciting opportunity for an Engineering Manager to join our Segments & Propositions Team in Leeds.

Segments & Propositions is the segment of customers with between £50,000 and £5 million in investable assets. We have close to three million Mass Affluent customers, and we are working hard to create greenfield personalised and tailored offering to ensure a beautiful banking experience. We want to provide a seamless digital experience, with the right products and services at our customers’ fingertips, but our face-to-face, telephone and secure messaging remain a vital part of our service.

As an Engineering Manager within the Segments & Propositions Platform you’ll be a manager of people. You’ll see your team as your product. While you are technically credible and know the details of what engineer’s work, your time will be spent safeguarding the team’s health, owning delivery of product commitments and always looking to improve productivity. You’ll lead the team in designing their systems to be scalable, available and secure.

About us…

We’re on an exciting journey and there couldn’t be a better time to join us. The investments we’re making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.

What you’ll do…

• Manage 1–2 teams of high calibre Software Engineers working on building, scaling world-class, distributed systems

• Recruit, hire, mentor, and coach software engineers at different levels of experience

• Manage and execute against project plans and delivery commitments within an Agile/Scrum environment

• Contribute to and lead design, architecture, process and development discussions

• Own all operational metrics and support for your teams' software

• Drive improvements in software engineering practices across engineering teams

• Lead design reviews for the org, participate in design reviews, provide insightful code reviews, and actively mentor other engineers

What you’ll need…

• Experience leading high-performing engineering teams, ideally in a high-scale, distributed environment.

• Strong technical background in at least one software engineering discipline.

• Experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines for scalable and automated deployments.

• Understanding of modern API-driven architectures.

• Strong focus on observability and monitoring, ensuring system reliability and performance.

• A pragmatic approach to balancing technical debt, product velocity, and operational reliability.

• Passion for both people development and hands-on technical leadership.

• Comfortable working in an environment where data-driven decision-making and experimentation drive improvements.

About working for us…

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes…

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance

• Share schemes including free shares

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people?
Join our journey!