Engineering Manager - Security Squad

Monzo

🚀 We’re on a mission to make money work for everyone. We’re waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking. After starting as a prepaid card, our product offering has grown a lot in the last 10 years in the UK. As well as personal and business bank accounts, we offer joint accounts, accounts for 16-17 year olds, a free kids account and credit cards in the UK, with more exciting things to come beyond. Our UK customers can also save, invest and combine their pensions with us.  With our hot coral cards and get-paid-early feature, combined with financial education on social media and our award winning customer service, we have a long history of creating magical moments for our customers! We’re not about selling products - we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo ❤️ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   📍 Cardiff/London/UK Remote | 0.5 FTE Part time 💰£40,000 - £50,000 (full-time equivalent) + Incentive Awards tied to your performance + Benefits ✨ Our People Centred Security Squad ⭐ This is a very exciting opportunity to join our People Centred Security Squad. We’re focused on building security processes that allow the bank to move at pace, while protecting our customers. We’re never afraid to do things differently. * You’ll be working closely with a full time Security Awareness Analyst and the Security Awareness Manager * You’ll be in a team of people who look after the human side of security  * You’ll work with teams from all across Security and all across Monzo 🔑 You’ll play a key role by... * Create engaging security awareness content across channels including Slack, email, presentations, training, and events. * Develop micro-learning, behavioural nudges, and awareness campaigns that encourage secure habits across Monzo. * Manage the day-to-day delivery of the security awareness programme, including campaigns, content, documentation, and reporting. * Translate complex security topics into clear, practical guidance that helps Monzonauts make confident decisions. * Use behavioural insights, metrics, and user feedback to continuously improve security awareness and influence the roadmap. * Partner with Security, People, Tech, Risk, and Customer Operations to improve security behaviours, reduce user friction, and communicate emerging threats. 🤩 We’d love to hear from you if… * Experience in security awareness, internal communications, or influencing behaviour change. * Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate technical concepts into clear, engaging guidance. * Highly organised, able to manage priorities independently and deliver high-quality work. * Good understanding of common security risks, including phishing, social engineering, password security, and data handling. * Strong collaborator who builds relationships, seeks feedback, and works effectively across teams. * Bonus: Experience with behavioural science, LMS platforms, content creation, presentations, campaign analytics, or tools such as Google Workspace, Slack, and Notion. Not ticking every box? That’s totally okay! Studies show that women and people of colour might hesitate to apply unless they meet every single requirement. At Monzo, we’re dedicated to creating a diverse and welcoming team. If you’re passionate about this role and keen to learn and grow with us, we encourage you to apply— even if you don’t have everything that's listed just yet. Drop us your application, we’d love to hear from you! 🙌 What’s in it for you 💰 0.5 FTE Part time £40,000 - £50,000 (full-time equivalent) + Incentive Awards tied to your performance 📍This role can be based in our London or Cardiff office, but we're open to distributed working within the UK (with ad hoc meetings in London) ⏰ We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, and at times that suit you and your team. 📚 £1,000 learning budget each year to use on books, training courses and conferences. 🏡 We will set you up to work from home; all employees are given Macbooks and for fully remote workers we will provide extra support for your work-from-home setup. ➕ Plus lots more! Read our full list of benefits. 🌈 The application journey has 3 key steps * 30 min recruiter call * 30 min call with the hiring manager * 2 hours of technical and behavioural interviews This process should take around 2-3 weeks - your schedule is really important to us, so we promise to be as flexible as possible! We have some guidelines on using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to ace an application and interview at Monzo. You can read them here. We’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. #LI-REMOTE #LI-OS1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Equal opportunities for everyone Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and we’re making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at Monzo. At Monzo, we’re embracing diversity by fostering an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us. This is integral to our mission of making money work for everyone. You can read more in our blog, 2026 Diversity and Inclusion Report and 2025 Gender Pay Gap Report. We’re an equal opportunity employer. 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 you have a preferred name, please use it to apply. We don't need full or birth names at application stage 😊

Seccl

Hybrid role to be based in our London, Bath or Edinburgh office. ABOUT US Seccl 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 ROLE As an Engineering manager, you’ll lead one of Seccl’s product engineering squads, helping the team deliver high-quality, scalable platform capability while creating an environment where engineers can do their best work. You’ll play a key role in building strong, psychologically safe engineering teams with a culture of continual learning, trust, empowerment and experimentation. You’ll support engineers through coaching, personal development and line management, while also helping the squad deliver valuable, reliable and well-engineered outcomes. You’ll work closely with Product managers, Engineering leaders and stakeholders across the business to define priorities, plan delivery and make sure the team is focused on the right outcomes. You’ll help balance delivery pace with engineering quality, operational resilience, security and long-term maintainability. This is a leadership role with delivery, people and engineering accountability. You’ll be close enough to the technology to guide and challenge technical decisions, while enabling engineers to own solutions and grow their capability. ON A TYPICAL DAY YOU WILL BE… * Leading, coaching and mentoring engineers within your squad, fostering a culture of high performance, psychological safety and continuous improvement * Supporting the personal development and line management of engineers, helping them grow their skills and progress their careers * Partnering closely with Product managers to define priorities, plan delivery and align squad work with Seccl’s commercial, regulatory and platform goals * Helping the squad make pragmatic delivery decisions, balancing customer value, technical quality, risk and long-term maintainability * Supporting and challenging technical decision-making, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, resilient and well-integrated with the wider platform * Remaining hands-on where it adds value, through design reviews, technical discussions, architectural exploration or unblocking complex delivery challenges * Working with Engineering leaders and other squads to improve cross-team collaboration, consistency and shared engineering standards * Owning delivery health for your squad, including production readiness, incident response, operational resilience and ongoing maintainability * Using metrics, feedback and team insight to continuously improve delivery predictability, system reliability and team effectiveness * Recruiting and onboarding new team members, helping build teams with the right skills, behaviours and ways of working * Contributing to broader engineering initiatives that help Seccl scale, such as improving engineering practices, developing people, strengthening delivery processes and sharing knowledge THIS ROLE’S FOR YOU IF... * You’re an experienced Engineering manager who has led complex product domains * You have a strong track record of building and scaling teams, including hiring, onboarding, and developing engineers * You’re comfortable balancing strategic thinking with hands-on execution, and can lead a squad that delivers value * You bring excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills, and can work effectively with Product, Compliance, and senior leadership * You’re confident working across our tech stack: Node.js, MongoDB, AWS, Lambda, Serverless Framework, and JavaScript/TypeScript * You have recent, practical experience with AI-assisted engineering tools and are comfortable helping teams apply them responsibly to improve delivery, quality and developer effectiveness. * You enjoy being close to the technology and can provide meaningful technical guidance without needing to be the primary coder * You have domain experience in financial services, investment platforms, fintech, or other highly regulated environments * You care deeply about building secure, compliant, and scalable systems that are easy to integrate and a pleasure to use * You’re motivated by the opportunity to help shape how Engineering operates at Seccl as we continue to grow 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 progression * You’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 feet * You 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 happen * You don’t like change. You’ll get on great here if you relish the ambiguity of rapid growth and are willing to embrace uncertainty WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU… We offer a generous mix of benefits for the things that really matter to our people, including: 💰 A salary between £95 000 - £110 000– dependant on experience + reviewed annually 🌴 27 days holiday + bank holidays (some can be flexible) + day off on your birthday + three days (full time) per year for Dependant leave 💙 Two volunteering days per year 🏅 Length of service award – one month paid sabbatical at eight years ✅ 6% employer pension contribution, and life assurance 🏥 Private medical insurance with AXA Health 👪 Enhanced Parental leave 💻 MacBook and up to £500 home office set up budget 📖 £750 per person learning budget 🌎 Option to work abroad for up to six weeks a year 🌻 Health and wellbeing initiatives including free therapy via Wellness Cloud, mental health support via Headspace 🌱 Strong financial wellbeing focus including access to Octopus Money, Octopus Share Incentive Plan and will writing offering via Octopus Legacy 🎁 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 Leasing OUR CULTURE We'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. INTERVIEW PROCESS 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 round – 60 min System design technical round * Second round – 45-min Leadership and cross-functional collaboration * Final round – 45 mins bar-raiser culture-based interview ⏳ We’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. We’d love to hear from you! #LI-VS1 #LI-hybrid

Back Market

HI, WE’RE BACK MARKET. We’re here to help make tech reliable, affordable, and better than new. We're a global marketplace for refurbished devices, helping lower our collective environmental impact by providing trustworthy, affordable tech with 92% less carbon emissions than new. Yep, you read that right. Turns out refurbished tech is way better for the planet than new. In fact, With every device purchased on Back Market, our positive impact on the planet grows. From our Customer Care representatives to our software engineer, every individual at Back Market cuts the planet — and consumers — a break. Our mission is simple: to do more with what we already have. Are you ready to join us? Our technology department, known as the Bureau of Technology (BoT), is at the heart of Back Market. It consists of over 30 dynamic product teams that are engaged in developing and managing services to deliver significant value to our customers and suppliers. These teams are effectively supported by our Platform group, which includes more than 10 specialized teams addressing cross-cutting technical issues to enhance our operational capabilities. In addition to these functional teams, we have established numerous groups dedicated to sharing knowledge across various technical disciplines, such as security, backend, frontend, AI, and mobile. These groups serve as hubs for collaboration and professional development, providing ample learning opportunities and fostering a culture of continuous improvement. Why we created the TLM (Tech Lead Manager) or Engineering Manager hands-on role et Back Market? The TLM role ensures we can scale our teams effectively while maintaining the technical excellence and mentorship our engineers need to thrive. When leading small teams of fewer than five people, traditional management methods often create gaps and inequities compared to managing larger teams. Team leads must juggle people management with hands-on technical work to keep their teams moving fast and maintaining high technical standards. The TLM role makes this dual responsibility official, helping leaders effectively guide their teams while making meaningful technical contributions. What technical contribution means for this role ? Technical contribution extends beyond writing code. TLMs can contribute through: * Code contributions: Pull requests, bug fixes, feature development * Technical design: Architecture decisions, system design, technical specifications * Code review: Providing thorough, constructive feedback on team submissions * Technical mentoring: Guiding team members through complex technical challenges * Technical debt management: Identifying and addressing architectural improvements * Tool and process optimization: Improving development workflows and team productivity * Technical stakeholder communication: Representing technical decisions to product and business teams We are looking for a Engineering Manager hands-on for our Subcriptions squad. The Subscription team is building Back Market's next growth engine: a suite of device protection and repair services, so we're transforming how customers protect their refurbished devices through subscription plans, smart retention flows, and personalized experiences. As TLM, you'll lead technical delivery across our subscription platform, Services hub, and payment systems while collaborating with multiple engineering teams to scale a service that genuinely extends device life and drives the circular economy. What you'll be doing : * Leading a collaborative team (5 people) in delivering great software that our customers will love! * Collaborating within the product engineering department to align the team with company objectives and initiatives across engineering and the wider business * You build strong roadmaps with the right balance of long-term strategic initiatives and more short-term tactical bets that embody the company’s strategy and the team’s growth-hacking mindset * Demonstrating a broad understanding of our global architecture and how your domains fits within it * Consistently delivering code that sets the standard for quality and maintainability * Ensuring the development of people through ongoing coaching and mentoring * Creating a team environment where team members feel like they belong and are supported to do their best work * Establishing open communication and a culture of feedback between team members * Working in an agile "build it and run it" environment where engineering teams build, launch, monitor and support the sections they own * Supporting your team in increasing delivery proficiency by creating a learning environment This is the perfect opportunity for you if: * You have experience and passion for growing, developing, and guiding people * You like managing a team while continuing to contribute technically * Openness to receiving and giving feedback in a safe workplace * Experience working in agile development teams with knowledge of our following tech stack : AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, RestFul API, Python, Django, VueJs, Nuxt, Datadog etc * Interest in working in an environment where leaders support their teams to do great work, by removing impediments, finding improvements, and facilitating effective decision-making * Enthusiasm about reaching new levels of effectiveness (and quality!) * Good verbal and written communication skills in English * Excitement to learn about how our industry works and the impact we bring to our customers and the world * You have a problem-solving attitude and are comfortable navigating ambiguous situations with data and putting the user at the center. * You have a growth hacking mindset, you don't wait to act, you run experiments to test new ideas, and based on data you leverage these learnings to build more value Some informations 🐍 Our technical environment Application: Python - FastAPI / SQLAlchemy/ Celery/ Golang/ Django (being phased out) - Data: PostgreSQL/ Redis/ Kafka/ RabbitMQ/ BigQuery Infrastructure: GCP / Kubernetes (GKE) / Docker/ Datadog/ ArgoCD / CircleCI / Github Recruitment process * Call with Marie ( Expert Tech TA), 45 min * Leadership principles interview with two Engineering Managers, 60 min * Coding & testing modules, 45 min * Technical leadership Interview & System Design & API interview , 90 min * Stakeholders interview, 45 min * Back Market Values fit interview - 45 min WHY SHOULD YOU JOIN US ? ✌🏼 At Back Market, we’re committed to hiring and supporting diverse teams of people from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives — it’s one of the reasons we’re such a high-scoring certified B Corp company (93.2). No matter your role and seniority level, you’ll enjoy impact-driven work with hands-on career development in an innovative, driven, and fast-paced environment — with benefits to match, like: - A mission driven work environment where your day to day makes an impact on the planet. Seriously. - Hybrid work environment, with 2 remote days a week and 1 remote work week per quarter, plus 3 flex days. - Employee Resource Groups, including mentorship programs, comprehensive accessibility policies, and cultural competency training. At Back Market, we strive to create a workplace that embodies the world we’re trying to change. We’ve embedded our diversity, equity, and inclusion principles into our DNA — from dedicated staff to employee resource groups to our company values. We know that the perfect background for a role doesn’t mean the perfect fit — we encourage you to apply for a role even if you think you may not have all the qualifications. If reasonable accommodations are needed for the interview process, please do not hesitate to discuss this with the Talent Acquisition Team.