Engineering Manager II

Zilch is a payment tech company on a mission to create the most empowering way to pay for anything, anywhere. We combine debit, credit and savings to give customers options to earn instant cashback or spread cost of pricier purchases, interest‑free and with no late fees.

About the role

Engineering Manager – Servant Leader, technical director, mentor, and hands‑on contributor. Lead two agile teams, design architecture, prioritize tasks, support leadership and stakeholders, drive engineering excellence.

Day‑to‑day responsibilities

• Lead two agile teams to implement customer‑impacting features.
• Design technical architecture and architecture of user stories and plans for delivery to production.
• Prioritize technical debt alongside product deliverables.
• Support Head of Engineering, CTO, and interact with senior business stakeholders.
• Own overall delivery cadence and quality for the teams.
• Identify and remove obstacles and bottlenecks.
• Drive adoption of best engineering practices.
• Mentor and coach engineers in agile and lean practice.
• Organise knowledge transfer, training, and documentation.

What we’re looking for

• Energetic, passionate, and loves helping teams deliver.
• Deeply committed to agile and continuous improvement.
• Servant leader who can guide, encourage, and drive a team.
• Technologist who can guide technical direction, mentor, and contribute hands‑on code.
• Bachelor and/or master’s degree.
• 3+ years leading software engineering teams, coaching agile practices.
• Experience in Scrum, Kanban or similar delivery frameworks.
• Strong background in Java, React, C# or similar.
• 2+ years communicating with key stakeholders.
• Experience in solutions architecture.
• Experience in managing projects.
• Experience in cloud environments (AWS or equivalent).
• Experience managing DevOps, Platform or SRE teams.

Benefits

• Income Protection.
• Share Options Scheme for permanent employees.
• 5% back on in‑app purchases.
• £200 for WFH setup.
• Private Medical Insurance (including GP consultations, prescribed medication, inpatient, day‑patient, out‑patient care, mental health support, physiotherapy, advanced cancer cover).
• Employee Assistance Programme (unlimited mental health sessions, remote GP & physiotherapy, helpline).
• Savings & discounts on everyday shopping.
• 1:1 personalised well‑being consultations.

Family Friendly Policies

• Enhanced maternity pay.
• Enhanced paternity pay.
• Enhanced adoption pay.
• Enhanced shared parental leave.

Learning & Development

• Professional Qualifications.
• Professional Memberships.
• Learning Suite for e‑courses.
• Internal Training Programmes.
• FCA & Regulatory training.

Working Arrangements

Hybrid working: office‑based Monday, Wednesday, Thursday; remote working Tuesday and Friday. Casual dress code. Workplace socials.

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