Engineering Manager

Salary: £90-120k
Location: Fully remote (with the option to come to our London Bridge office as you want)

About the role:

As a key member of our Tech team, you’ll be leading one of our squads, working with Engineers and Product Managers to deliver scalable and robust microservices used in Raindrop’s Pension Finding Service.

You’ll be reporting directly to our CTO, and you’ll be responsible for management of your squad with a strong focus on facilitating the team, developing our people and continuously improving how we work.

This is a fast-paced role in a rapidly growing fintech. Our partners include some of the largest and well-known pension and fintech brands in the UK.

We’re a small team, so there’ll be plenty of opportunities to develop your skills in other areas of Tech and the wider business if that’s something that would interest you.

Responsibilities:

Partner with a Product Manager and Senior Engineer to lead a squad building high performance microservices.
Act as the line manager for the engineers in your squad, actively driving their growth and development.
Work with your squad and the wider Tech Team to improve our engineering practices, sharing what works and learning from others.
Contribute to the design of our architecture and the evolution of our technology stack.
Be accountable for driving the delivery of your squad while maintaining a high quality bar, understanding the trade-offs and explaining them to your squad and stakeholders.

Key Skills:

Experience managing high performing engineering teams.
A background in Software Engineering and a strong understanding of the issues Engineering teams face.
The ability to iterate, experiment and drive continuous improvement.
Knowledge of Agile Development practices (e.g. Kanban, Scrum) and the judgement to use, question or adapt these to best fit your squad.
Balance short term execution with long term strategic thinking to ensure the best outcome.
Strong communication skills and the ability to act as a bridge between engineering, product and stakeholders.

Nice to Have:

Knowledge of financial products (particularly pensions).
Previous experience working in start-up or scale-up.

Benefits:

Fully remote working.
Flexible working hours.
36 days of holiday (including bank holidays).
The opportunity to work abroad for 2 months of the year (after probation).
A budget for learning and development.
The chance to take on high levels of responsibility relative to the opportunities one would have in larger organisations and drive the future of our pension finding service.
The ability to scale up your own career within a fast-growing start-up.

Who we are:

https://www.myraindrop.co.uk/

Business tagline: Reuniting savers with their lost pensions

Did you know that 4 new pensions are created in the UK every minute, of which the vast majority go missing?

Raindrop specialises in finding savers' old pensions using its proprietary technology, automations and processes - in doing so, Raindrop provides an end-to-end pension finding solution which entails liaising with end users (savers), pension providers and, where required, former employers. Our mission is to reunite savers with their lost pots to help savers have complete visibility over their pension portfolios, thus leading to better retirement choices and outcomes.

Automatic enrolment aggravated the problem of lost and dormant pensions as workers are now enrolled into a new pension every time they switch jobs – with as many as 11 jobs throughout one’s career this is leading to an explosion in the number of dormant pensions. This fragmentation of pots leads to a lack of oversight, valuable pots being left behind, and ultimately, an inability to manage one’s retirement savings effectively.

We solve this by providing the technology (via API and white-label solutions) for our clients (pension providers, fintechs, etc) to offer a pension finding solution to their end users with the ultimate goal of having all of their found pensions consolidated with our client.

If you’re interested in the role, please contact Anton at anton.macmillan.parks@myraindrop.co.uk

Engineering Manager