Senior engineering manager - Tax Wrappers

This is a flexible-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We’re B-Corp certified with an amazing product-market fit, impressive early traction and the potential to transform an outdated industry, for the better.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 a Senior engineering manager – Tax Wrappers, you’ll play a pivotal role in Seccl’s next phase of growth. You’ll lead engineering delivery across the Tax Wrappers domain, which includes core products such as SIPPs and ISAs — some of the most critical and strategically important capabilities on the Seccl platform.

This is a senior leadership role with both delivery and growth accountability. You’ll initially take ownership of a single squad, while being expected to hire, build and scale a second squad within your first few months. Over time, you’ll lead two squads operating in closely related or adjacent problem spaces, each typically made up of 4–5 engineers and supported by a Product Manager.

You’ll work closely with Product, Platform engineering, Compliance, and senior engineering leadership to ensure Seccl continues to deliver scalable, compliant, and market-leading tax wrapper functionality. Your leadership will directly influence Seccl’s ability to support new customer propositions, scale with confidence, and deliver increasingly complex functionality as the platform grows.

This role goes beyond day-to-day squad leadership: you’ll help shape the technical direction, operating model, and long-term strategy for Tax Wrappers across the platform.

The Tax Wrappers domain at Seccl:

Tax Wrappers is a critical growth area for Seccl. Our SIPP and ISA capabilities sit at the heart of the platform and are fundamental to how customers use and integrate with Seccl.

As the platform grows, the complexity and scale of this domain continues to increase — from account lifecycle management and transaction flows to regulatory reporting, integrations, and operational resilience. We’re investing in multiple squads in this space to ensure we can deliver at pace while maintaining high standards of quality, security, and compliance.

As Senior engineering anager, you’ll be a key leader responsible for ensuring this domain can scale sustainably and continue to support Seccl’s growth ambitions over the next 12 months and beyond.

On a typical day you will be:

• Leading, coaching and mentoring engineers across two squads, fostering a culture of high performance, psychological safety, and continuous improvement

• Hiring and building a new squad in the Tax Wrappers domain, including shaping team structure, onboarding, and ways of working

• Partnering closely with Product managers to define priorities, plan delivery, and align initiatives with Seccl’s commercial, regulatory, and platform goals

• Providing technical leadership and architectural oversight across Tax Wrapper systems, including account lifecycles, transaction processing, and regulatory logic

• Supporting and challenging technical decision-making, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, compliant, and well-integrated across the wider platform

• Remaining hands-on where it adds value — through design reviews, architectural spikes, prototyping, or unblocking complex delivery challenges

• Working closely with Platform engineering and other domain leaders to ensure strong cross-squad collaboration and consistency

• Owning delivery health across your domain, including production readiness, incident response, and operational excellence

• Using metrics and feedback to continuously improve delivery predictability, system reliability, and team effectiveness

• Contributing to broader engineering leadership discussions, helping shape how engineering operates at Seccl as we scale

This role’s for you if:

• You’re an experienced Engineering manager who has led complex product domains and is ready for broader scope and impact

• You have a strong track record of building and scaling teams, including hiring, onboarding, and developing engineers

• You’re comfortable leading multiple squads or operating at a domain level, balancing strategic thinking with day-to-day execution

• 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, React, MongoDB, AWS, Lambda, Serverless Framework, and JavaScript/TypeScript

• 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 — experience with tax wrappers (such as SIPPs or ISAs) is a strong advantage, but experience in adjacent domains (payments, custody, pensions, banking, compliance-heavy platforms) would also be highly valuable

• You care deeply about building secure, compliant, and scalable systems that are easy to integrate and a pleasure to use

• You’re excited by the opportunity to shape a critical domain in a fast-growing, mission-led company.

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 up to £120,000– 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!

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