Senior Engineering Manager (Fintech)

TL;DR

Senior Engineering Manager (Fintech): Building and modernizing high-volume, revenue-critical payments platforms and products with an accent on system evolution, scalability, and handling complex business rules. Focus on integrating modern AI-driven workflows, ensuring reliable delivery, strong CI, excellent observability, and well-defined APIs.

Location: On-site in London

Company

hirify.global is the UK’s fastest-growing used car marketplace, an award-winning online-only platform connecting private car sellers with over 7,500 verified dealers nationwide.

What you will do

• Drive team execution and agile ceremonies, partnering with product leaders to set quarterly goals.
• Directly manage 4–7 developers and 1–3 Engineering Managers, taking full responsibility for their career progression, recruitment, and onboarding.
• Own the target reference architecture and end-to-end delivery of your team’s services, breaking down requirements into high-level milestones.
• Act as the key link between deep-tech decisions and business outcomes, communicating progress and challenges to senior stakeholders.
• Join the EM guild to continuously evolve and implement best practices across planning, coding, design, quality, monitoring, deployment, and security.

Requirements

• Domain expertise in finance-related and revenue-critical payments platforms, building and modernizing systems that handle high volumes/values, strict correctness, and complex business rules.
• Comfortable working with external partners and third-party service providers from the finance and payments industries, translating regulatory and compliance constraints into pragmatic technical solutions.
• More than 15 years of experience in software engineering, and at least 7 years in an engineering manager role.
• Proven track record of improving team ability to deliver more value at speed and making fast data-driven decisions.
• Possess strong communication and interpersonal skills, comfortable talking to non-technical senior stakeholders.
• Hands-on background as a software engineer with full-stack experience, able to make individual contributions and review code in almost any language.
• Experience or exposure with tools and technologies like Stripe, AWS, Bun, Node.js, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Typescript, React, HTML, CSS, Datadog, OpsLevel, and Incident.io.

Culture & Benefits

• Work for the UK’s fastest-growing used car marketplace, backed by leading investors after a successful $190 million funding round.
• Be part of a mission to transform the used car market with a technology-driven, award-winning online platform.
• Operate in a fast-paced environment, evolving digital products at breakneck speed.
• Focus on profitability, ensuring the platform is reliable and scalable.
• Contribute to building a world-class engineering organization.