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SecclGet AI-powered advice on this job and more exclusive features.This is a flexible hybrid role with our offices in London, Bath or Edinburgh.About UsSeccl is the Octopus-owned embedded investment platform that’s on a mission to helping more people to invest – and invest well.We’re B-Corp certified with an amazing product-market fit, impressive early traction and the potential to transform an outdated industry, for the better. We''ve been growing fast and will scale even faster over the next few years.We’re also proud to be part of Octopus, the £multi billion group that''s on a mission to breathe new life into broken industries, through companies like Octopus Energy, Octopus Investments and Octopus Money.Check out the Seccl website for the latest on our products and our mission to shape the future of investments.The roleWe’re looking for a

Squad Engineering Manager

to lead our Cloud Resilience team—a critical squad within our engineering organisation responsible for the core infrastructure that powers our cloud-native investment platform.This is a

hands-on leadership role

combining deep technical insight, strong stakeholder engagement, and strategic delivery. You’ll be responsible for shaping and delivering the roadmap. You’ll also be line managing the engineers in your squad, supporting their growth, career development, and wellbeing, and helping shape the future team through recruitment and onboarding.Our team ensures the core investment platform remains

reliable ,

secure , and

scalable , supporting the needs of product squads while keeping operational complexity low. We empower squads to

build and run their own services

by providing

self-service platforms , tooling, and guidance, rather than acting as a centralised infrastructure team that owns and operates everything end-to-end.We’re primarily in

AWS , utilising

Lambda, ECS, SQS, API Gateway

among others. Our database engine is

MongoDB

and our observability platform is

Datadog . Our application is written in

Typescript/NodeJS

and our infrastructure is defined in

Terraform .On a typical day you will…Lead, coach, and line manage a team of skilled engineers—supporting their personal and professional growth, providing regular feedback and career development guidance, and driving team hiring, onboarding, and retention.Own and drive the roadmap for your squad, working with stakeholders to define problems, prioritise work, and align delivery to business and platform goals.Represent your team in quarterly planning, clearly communicating goals, trade-offs, and rationale behind prioritisation.Collaborate across teams to ensure platform resilience, security, and observability are considered in all system design and delivery.Lead incident response, own production readiness, and embed best practices for monitoring, alerting, and fault tolerance.Guide architectural outcomes and contribute to key implementations—particularly in areas related to infrastructure automation, cloud reliability, and developer tooling.Champion the use of Terraform, Datadog, and AWS-native tooling to manage infrastructure, observability, and runtime environments.Measure and improve key platform metrics—uptime, latency, cost-efficiency, incident resolution time, and platform usability.This role’s for you if...You''re a strong engineering leader with experience building and running resilient cloud platforms, and you enjoy leading teams that sit at the intersection of infrastructure and product.You take a product mindset to platform work: engaging with stakeholders, framing problems, setting priorities, and communicating trade-offs.You enjoy collaborating across engineering, product, and operations to align goals and ensure platform stability and scalability.You care deeply about operational excellence, automation, and making things reliable, secure, and easy to use.You’ve led or contributed to modern cloud-native environments and are fluent in AWS best practices, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), and monitoring (Datadog).You thrive in an environment where you’re empowered to define direction, drive delivery, and represent your team’s work to the wider business.You want to be part of a company on a mission to transform investment infrastructure through thoughtful technology and strong engineering culture.This role isn’t for you if...You rely on a lot of top-down direction. Here, you’ll have a lot of freedom and ownership of your role, and you’ll be expected to shape your own progressionYou’re not comfortable working in a fast-paced environment. Our speed and scalability are what set us apart; you need to be able to act quickly and think on your feetYou struggle to follow through on ideas. We value people who do what they say they will. If you care about something, you have the freedom here to make it happenYou don’t like change. You’ll get on great here if you relish the ambiguity of rapid growth and are willing to embrace uncertaintyWhat’s In It For You…We offer a generous mix of benefits for the things that really matter to our people, including:27 days holiday + bank holidays (some can be flexible) + day off on your birthday + three days (full time) per year for Dependant leaveTwo volunteering days per yearLength of service award – one month paid sabbatical at eight years6% employer pension contribution, and life assurancePrivate medical insurance with AXA HealthEnhanced Parental leaveMacBook and up to £500 home office set up budget£750 per person learning budgetOption to work abroad for up to six weeks a yearHealth and wellbeing initiatives including free therapy via Wellness Cloud, mental health support via HeadspaceStrong financial wellbeing focus including access to Octopus Money, Octopus Share Incentive Plan, will writing offering via Octopus Legacy and Seccl invest (our own platform for you to manage your investments)Perkbox – Flexi-points giving you a range of discounts and perks including free weekly coffee, gym and retail discounts.Access to initiatives like Cycle to Work and Octopus Electric Vehicle LeasingOur cultureWe''re proud to put people first, creating a culture where we truly listen to what matters most to them. Our transparent and inclusive environment encourages diversity of thought, challenge and experimentation.Check out our Glassdoor page for the latest reviews or our LinkedIn for company updates and insights from the team.Interviewing is a two-way thing, and we want you to have the time and opportunity to get to know us, as much as we are getting to know you. Our interviews are conversational, so come with questions and be curious. In general, you can expect the interview process to look a bit like this, (following an initial chat with one of our Talent team):First stage – one-hour cloud system design interviewSecond stage – one-hour code review interviewThird stage - 45 mins Leadership and Collaboration interviewFinal stage – 45 mins bar-raiser culture-based interviewWe’ll only close this role once we have enough applications for the next stage. Please submit your application as soon as possible to make sure you don’t miss out and you should expect to hear back from us within one to two weeks of applying.Our aim is to build a diverse and inclusive company of awesome people, with unique skills, passions and experiences. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity or disability status.If this sounds like your kind of thing, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t tick every box.

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