Engineering Manager

Location

London or remote within the UK

Full time

Remote

Engineering

Hi, we’re Griffin! We’re the bank for companies who want to build and launch financial products.

We're rapidly heading towards a future where most of us access financial services through technology companies rather than high street banks. All sorts of companies are now embedding financial products into their apps and user journeys so that their customers can seamlessly make payments, manage expenses, take out loans, save, invest, and do more.

The problem is that companies are still dependent on legacy banking infrastructure if they want to offer regulated financial products. They need to either partner directly with an incumbent bank and/or stitch together middleware from various Banking as a Service (BaaS) providers. This process is slow, expensive, and complex and makes it very hard for companies to get new financial products off the ground.

At Griffin, we want to change this.

We want to make it easy for companies to bring finance to their customers at the point of greatest relevance. So, we built a bank.

But not just any bank! Griffin is a technology platform and bank: fully regulated, API-first, developer-centric, and purpose-built to serve innovative fintechs and brands who want to build and embed financial products.

Learn more about what we do.

Our culture is our most important asset, and one of the ways we safeguard it is by being extremely intentional about hiring the right people. We won't hire people who don’t seem like a strong fit for our core values, even if they're otherwise extremely qualified.

We also believe that smart, motivated, conscientious people thrive in high-trust, high-autonomy environments. That’s why we’re transparent by default, and we encourage open discussion and challenge across all levels of the organisation. We’re also remote-first, asynchronous, and fully flexible - because you're the expert on how and when you do your best work.

Learn more about our culture.

We have seven Engineering teams within Craft:
Banking, Infrastructure, Onboarding and Financial Crime, Payments, Platform, Cards and Tooling. Each team is cross-functional, with the Product, Design and Engineering skills required to discover, shape, architect, build, test and run end-to-end features.

Rather than "move fast and break things", we aim to move thoughtfully and make few mistakes. We are an output-driven environment that operates with extreme autonomy; people are free to keep their own hours and we don't micromanage each other.

Our backend stack is Clojure, Foundation

DB, Bazel, Kubernetes and AWS

Our frontend stack is CLJS, Reframe, but we are moving towards Svelte

The ideal candidate for this job will have most of the following:

• You’re a capable IC who is able to ship high-quality code but is equally passionate about helping other engineers achieve their goals and become the best engineers they can.

• You have a solid understanding of what good looks like for a high-performing engineering team of different skillsets and experience levels.

• You actively look for cross functionality and have experience working with product and operations teams.

• Have worked with functional languages (Clojure, Haskell, Erlang, Elixir etc) in production.

As an Engineering Manager at Griffin, you will:

• Be a leader of one or more teams, taking accountability for their deliveries and the health of their technology.

• Manage your team’s delivery cycles, making sure that development work is ready to be picked up, estimated and prioritised to optimise output.

• Supports team delivery, dedicating 10-20 hours per week writing code, debugging and participating in code review.

• Support the team in maintaining a high technical standard and best working practices including documentation.

• Coach your teams in everything from architectural vision to operational excellence.

• Collaborate with the CTO and product management team to set and execute against the right goals.

• Develop engineers on the team, helping them advance in their careers.

• Take a prominent…