Senior Software Engineering Manager

Senior Software Engineering Manager

At Freetrade, we believe investing should be open to everyone. It’s the single best way to grow your savings, but for a lot of people, investing seems complicated, expensive and remote. We want to change all that. 

We're a technology company that brings simple, free stock investing to everyone. We’ve built a beautiful investing app to trade in real shares, with zero commissions or fees in a fluid, mobile-first experience. And behind the app, we’re building all the technology and infrastructure from the ground up. 

With over £10m in funding so far and as one of the most overfunded companies ever on Crowdcube,  we are now expanding our team further and are poised to disrupt the £1.2 trillion UK retail investments market. And that's just the start.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineering Manager. You’ll help us raise the bar for best practices and build a world-class team with a brilliant engineering culture.

Our stack:

Using GCP's serverless offerings like Firestore, Cloud Composer & Stackdriver, we're able to quickly build a reliable and performant platform. We use Swift and Kotlin to write performant and reliable native applications leading to a frictionless investment experience. We're language-agnostic, as we're focused on finding amazing software engineers who want to build something exciting with us.

In the first 12 months you will:

  • Convert group level objectives into key results for your team.
  • Ensure the team can work efficiently and deliver value early.
  • Grow your team by hiring engineers which raise the bar for our organisation.
  • Provide ongoing feedback on your team members technical & leadership performance.
  • Provide structured performance reviews to identify high and low performers.
  • Own the design and development of non-trivial features.
  • Develop a deep understanding of multiple parts of our stack as well as the processes and technologies relevant to our consumer tech space.
  • Help raise the bar for our team by contributing to best practices, automation, documentation, and hiring.
  • Write well-tested software that has few regressions.
  • Support operational excellence and make measurable improvements to our support processes.
  • Our work culture prioritises speed, care and effectiveness and you’ll have the freedom to pursue your own ideas and solutions.

About you:

  • We hire in a language-agnostic way, so whatever your skillset we're happy to hear from you - check out our current stack here.
  • You’re a proven leader who cares about your team, keen to share your knowledge and open to giving (and receiving) continuous feedback
  • You’re a strong communicator and thrive working cross-functionally with disciplines from operations to design and growth to finance
  • You build clean, performant, tested and maintainable code
  • You’re product-minded and understand the tradeoffs between quality and delivering fast
  • You love to learn new skills and want to develop your existing ones to maximise your potential
  • You care about impact, love a challenge, and take ownership of your work

You can read about our engineering interview process here

Benefits

Salary of £85k to 95k pa.

You’ll have a stake in the company you’re building, with stock options benchmarked to US companies (not Europe), so your equity will be truly meaningful.

We also support you with a range of extra perks, including top-end health and life insurance for you and the family, up to 5% pension contribution which we’ll match, enhanced parental leave, opportunities for learning and development, MacBook Pro, snazzy headphones... whatever tools you need.

Our office is in a beautiful co-working space, Second Home in Spitalfields, which has an abundance of health, wellness and cultural events happening every day - and buzzy Brick Lane is just a street away. 

We are an Equal Opportunity employer committed to a diverse and representative team. Whatever your race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability - we want to hear from you. We're very open about what we're working on, and the best places to learn more are our buzzing community forum and our blog.




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