Engineering Manager

Novatus is a Series B scale-up Reg Tech SaaS provider and boutique advisory practice, enabling financial services firms to solve complex challenges and redefine what’s possible through expert-led technology and consulting. Across both our technology and consulting services, Novatus delivers practical solutions to some of the most complex regulatory, data and operational challenges in financial services.

Our SaaS platform, En>

ACT (short for Ensuring Accurate, Complete and Timely reporting), is a market-leading solution for regulatory transaction reporting and reconciliation, providing real-time, independent oversight of transaction reporting across all global regulatory regimes. En>

ACT is the only real-time assurance solution that tests 100% of transactions and 100% of fields, replacing sample-based reviews and static PDF reports delivered months after the event with live, actionable insights. This helps firms remediate quickly, reduce risk, and meet regulatory obligations with confidence. Already trusted by more than 45 firms worldwide, the platform is scalable, proven, and designed for both business and technical users.

Alongside our SaaS offering, our unique model delivers consulting services to solve complex challenges, combining deep expertise, ownership and delivery to create lasting change. Our expertise spans Strategy & Operations, Data & AI, Risk & Resilience, Compliance, Transaction Reporting, and ESG. We embed ourselves within client teams to deliver both insight and execution, taking ownership of outcomes and driving measurable impact.

Since our launch in 2019, we have scaled rapidly, creating space for our people to grow the business. Backed by North American private equity investment, and partnerships with the London Stock Exchange Group and Snowflake’s global data platform, we are shaping the future of financial services through innovation in both consulting and technology. Now a team of 120 globally, our growth plans do not stop here: we are looking for top-tier talent to join us on our journey and enable our next phase of success.

Novatus HQ - 2 London Wall Place, EC2Y 5AU

Reports to: VP Engineering

Department: Platform Development

As an Engineering Manager will lead a full-stack team whilst remaining hands‑on with delivery and architecture. You'll provide technical leadership and mentorship to your team, and write clean, maintainable, and well‑tested code.

You will be accountable for our core domain services, our customer-facing web application and our internally-facing tooling. You will set technical direction, drive standards, and ensure high‑quality execution across the team.

You'll join at a pivotal stage as we re-platform from a legacy Django application to a service‑based .NET platform, with React & Type Script frontends on AWS. Our systems power regulatory reporting for major financial institutions, requiring precision, traceability, and reliability.

• Own delivery for our core domain services and web applications.
• Manage and mentor a team of Engineers in a player/coach capacity.
• Design, build, and optimize services using C# and .NET.
• Apply principles and best practices from DDD, Event‑Driven and hexagonal architecture.
• Ensure systems are auditable, resilient and observable in regulated environments.
• Champion AI tooling in developer workflows to accelerate delivery without compromising quality.
• Partner with Product, Data Engineering, Dev Ops, QA, and Regulatory teams to turn requirements into effective solutions.
• Continually improve engineering standards, processes, and tooling across the team.

• Experience managing an engineering team.
• Strong hands‑on experience building services with C# and .NET.
• Deep experience designing event‑driven (we use Kafka), service‑based systems using DDD and hexagonal architecture.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals (clean code, automated testing, CI/CD, observability).
• Hands‑on experience with AWS.
• Actively uses AI tooling (e.g. Copilot, Claude Code) and has opinions on best practices.
• Ability to translate complex regulatory or domain requirements into technical specifications.
• High ownership mindset and…