Engineering Manager

We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead one of our Engineering teams. You will play a pivotal role in the success of Lendscape, supporting your team to deliver consistently and reliably high-quality software products. You and your team will have operational ownership of the system you deliver. As a member of the Engineering Leadership team, you will have the opportunity to shape not just your team but the wider engineering function.

Lendscape is at an exciting point in its engineering journey — actively investing in its people, practices, and platform to support continued product growth in the lending software market. Engineering is building out its leadership function, modernising its technical foundations, and raising the bar on how it delivers software. There is real momentum, and real work to be done.

For the right candidate, this role offers genuine strategic reach. Alongside leading your team, you will be an active contributor to Engineering’s growth — shaping hiring strategy, influencing technical direction, and helping define the culture and ways of working that will characterise the function for years to come. Teams at Lendscape are intentionally kept small to enable close, high-trust, high-impact leadership.

This is not a role for someone who measures seniority by headcount; it is a role for someone who wants to build something excellent and leave a lasting mark on the organisation.

Strategy

Understand business goals, help your team to understand them, and work with the Product team to ensure that work aligns to those goals.

Stakeholders

Collaborate with stakeholders to align with business interests and ensure that the voice of your team is heard. Maintain a tight, transparent collaboration between engineering and other business functions.

Metrics

Work with your team to track team-level metrics. Utilise frameworks such as DORA and SPACE to collect and analyse data, educate your team on what the numbers mean, and drive continual, measurable improvements in delivery effectiveness and team health.

People

Hire, lead, mentor, and motivate a team of approximately 4 to 6 engineers, fostering collaboration, accountability, and high performance. Set clear expectations of knowledge, skills, and behaviours across all levels from Graduate to Senior. Provide coaching, feedback, and structured development plans to help team members grow and excel. Build strong, trusted relationships that enable open and honest communication. Implement effective feedback mechanisms and perform regular, calibrated performance reviews.

Be a servant leader.

Beyond your immediate team, contribute actively to the Engineering organisation. Participate in Engineering Leadership team initiatives, contribute to Engineering-wide hiring and talent strategy, and take ownership of cross-cutting programmes — such as communities of practice, graduate development, or engineering-wide ways‑of‑working improvements — that help shape the culture and operating model of Engineering as it scales.

Ways of Working

Champion agile methodologies — Scrum, Kanban, and related practices — within your team, and support the scaling of these practices across Engineering, Product, and Design. Facilitate a culture of reflection and learning and of the sharing of best practices. Continually identify bottlenecks and champion improvement across the wider engineering function.

Technology

Work with your team to design solutions that meet functional and non‑functional requirements, follow Lendscape’s architectural standards, and take those solutions through solution design review. Contribute to Engineering technical standards and the Technical Roadmap. Be accountable for critical architectural decisions, making these openly and collaboratively with Staff/Principal Engineers and the Chief Architect.

Provide technical leadership in Lendscape’s core stack, with a strong focus on Java/Spring for server‑side development and proficiency across associated technologies:

• Web technologies: HTML, JavaScript, React
• RESTful APIs and GraphQL
• Postgre
  
  SQL or equivalent relational databases
• Testing: JUnit, Mockito, TestNG, and broader testing…