Engineering Manager / Scrum Manager, Home Based

Lendable is on a mission to build the world's best technology to help people get credit and save money. We're building one of the world’s leading fintech companies and are off to a strong start: \nAmong the fastest-growing tech companies in the UK\n \n \So far, we’ve rebuilt the Big Three consumer finance products from scratch: loans, credit cards and car finance. We’re growing fast, and there’s a lot more to do: we’re going after the two biggest Western markets (UK and US) where trillions worth of financial products are held by big banks with dated systems and painful processes. \nBuild the best technology in-house, using new data sources, machine learning and AI to make machines do the heavy lifting\n \Senior Engineering Managers at Lendable are a unique group of humans, combining strategic insight, technical leadership, and strong people management to shape and evolve our engineering teams to deliver value for the business. They operate at the convergence of business goals, technical execution, and team coaching, ensuring that every project and process aligns seamlessly with our mission and values. They manage across a broad scope, directly or through their Engineering Managers and Staff Engineers and build a resilient foundation for sustained success by focusing on team growth and technical innovation. \We're looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to join the team delivering our UK Loans product, ensuring our customers have a great experience from the moment they apply for a Loan through to repayment, including how we take payments and support customers who enter financial difficulty. In this role, you will be responsible for the delivery efficiency, technical excellence, and cross-functional collaboration of the Loans UK engineering function, balancing feature development with technical investments and maintaining high team development standards. You'll achieve this through managing and mentoring two Engineering Managers as they lead their teams and your own team of engineers. \There's much to accomplish as a Senior Engineering Manager at Lendable. You'll be accountable for a high-performing, resilient team that achieves today's objectives while building a foundation for long-term success. From enhancing delivery quality to developing a robust, valuable platform, your work will ensure we deliver impactful solutions that meet the needs of our customers and stakeholders alike. We're AI-driven at every stage of the SDLC, from planning and design through to coding, testing, deployment and incident response, and we need a leader who embraces this way of working, champions it across their teams, and continually pushes the bar on how we leverage AI to ship better software, faster. \PHP 8, Symfony 6&7, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Docker, Kubernetes, React & React Native, TypeScript, MobX, Redux, Stylus and SASS, Jenkins (we deploy to production as soon as we finish a feature), Behat, Playwright, PHPUnit, Jest, Selenium, Maestro and Detox. \nManage and mentor your Engineering Managers to ensure that they and their teams are high performing across our pillars of delivery, people management, technology, and cross functional collaboration.\nBuild and develop a high-performing team by planning resources, recruiting, and ensuring that your teams conduct regular assessments, engage in cross-training, and implement clear career progression pathways, thereby supporting team resilience and adaptability.\nDrive technical strategy in alignment with business goals, ensuring a consistent approach between teams and helping your EMs, Tech Leads and senior engineers to make strategic trade-offs between short-term deliverables and long-term technical investments.\nEnsure high-quality output by establishing best practices in quality assurance and incident management, tracking metrics such as uptime and incident reduction in the team's area.\nEmbed continuous feedback within the team culture, fostering an environment of continuous improvement and aligning the team's performance with organisational goals.\nA degree in Computer Science or relevant experience in software engineering and technical management.\n10+ years of experience in engineering leadership roles, managing managers and operating across a broad business domain.\nStrong understanding of building and scaling consumer financial products, and experience managing cross functional engineering teams in an environment with dependencies on other business areas such as Credit, Operations and Finance.\nDemonstrated ability to balance feature delivery with technical improvements, ensuring a sustainable and high-quality pace for the team.\nProven experience in owning delivery timelines and quality outcomes, with the ability to identify and resolve bottlenecks quickly and efficiently.\nSkilled in building high-performing teams, with experience in skills assessment, cross-training, and fostering a continuous learning and improvement culture.\nAbility to strategically guide technical decisions without being a blocker, with familiarity in technical debt management, architectural planning, and quality assurance best practices.\nExceptional communication and collaboration skills, with experience facilitating joint planning and maintaining alignment across multiple teams and senior business stakeholders.\nA quick phone call with someone from the People Team\n \n \nAn Introductory call to the role with the VP of Engineering\n \n \nWinning team: the opportunity to scale up one of the world’s most successful fintech companies\n \n \nFlexible working: flexible approach tailored to each role. Hybrid roles require three days in-office weekly; fully remote roles include regular opportunities for in-person connection through socials and off-sites\n \n \nSocials & connection: opportunities and events to come together, socialise, and get to know each other beyond the office walls\n \n \nHealth coverage: support for your physical and mental wellbeing, including private health cover\n \n \nRetirement & savings: long-term financial wellbeing through retirement savings plans\n \n \nEmployee referral programme: earn a competitive bonus when you refer successful new team members\n \n \nOffice meals & snacks: enjoy a fully stocked kitchen, plus complimentary lunches prepared by in-house chefs on in-office days at select locations\n \n \nSustainable commuting: cycle-to-work and electric vehicle salary sacrifice schemes available in select locations\n \For more information, please speak to your Talent Partner. \