Engineering Manager

Job Description

About 9fin

The world's largest asset class, debt, operates with the worst data.

Technology has revolutionized equity markets with electronic trading, quant algos and instantaneous news. However, in debt capital markets, the picture is completely different. It still behaves like it’s in the 1980s; trillions of dollars of trades are placed over the phone, news is slow, and corporate credit information is imperfect and scattered.

Our mission is to change this.

9fin's proprietary technology delivers fast and comprehensive financial, credit, legal & ESG analysis. Our clients are able to make faster, more informed decisions, win more business and most importantly, save time.

Our fast growing list of clients include 9 of the top 10 Investment Banks, leading Asset Managers, Hedge Funds and Law Firms.

What you’ll work on

This is an opportunity to join an already highly productive team and take it to the next level. By shaping the ways of working from the outset and bringing in your own experience for us to learn from. It’s a team effort, not only working with the Head of Engineering but people and talent teams to design the organisation, hire and nurture its growth. Our engineering and product design team is made up of dedicated, talented and highly capable individuals. Who all bring positivity, kindness and energy to what they do.

Every day is different, but here’s an example of the kind of things you’ll work on:

• Leading, Hiring and Growing diverse and talented technical teams with oversight on important aspects such as team size, team composition, team priorities, ways of working, collaboration with each other and externally with clients
• Help to create and maintain an efficient impactful engineering deliver chain focussing on customer impact balanced carefully with tech debt repayment, documentation and engineering best practices
• Ensuring cross-functional teams are set up for success in their ability to maintain the high product velocity, innovation and engineer personal growth at 9fin. Work Life balance is very important to us at 9fin, so we aim for consistent and sustainable delivery 
• Line management, coaching and mentoring of your direct reports through regular 1-1s, goal setting and productive feedback
• Working with the people team to design and implement hiring strategies that attract top talent and lead initiatives to help promote the 9fin employer brand

Our Backend Stack

• Python is the dominant backend language used
• Flask & FastAPI
• Typing is used within our Python stack to power automated documentation and API definitions
• Relational Databases (PostgreSQL) at the heart of majority of services
• We’re AWS for Cloud hosted services
• Heavy use of AWS lambda Serverless
• Docker (AWS ECS) for uniform development/deployment from dev to prod

Our Frontend Stack

• React 18
• React router
• Typescript
• Storybook & Jest testing suites
• Vite JS

Requirements

This role will be a great fit if you:

• Have a solid foundation in a core vertical: Full-stack web Development, System Architecture, Cloud Engineering or any combination through past experience or prior to transitioning to management
• Experience in leading the successful delivery of multiple projects coordinating across multiple teams/functions
• Experience managing performance of teams and individuals
• A high personal bar for quality, and the ability to impart those high standards onto others
• Comfortable working with a high degree of autonomy and technical complexity
• Enjoy speaking directly with real customers to understand their product needs and to positively showcase your team's work

Benefits

Financial & Insurance

• Competitive Salary (our salary bands are benchmarked at the top end of the market)
• Equity options
• Pension (your minimum contributions are 4% with 9fin matching up to 7%)
• Private Medical Insurance & Dental Insurance
• Paid sick leave with Income Protection for long periods of illness
• Group Life Assurance 
• Season Ticket Loan & Cycle to Work schemes

Time off 

• 25 holiday days per year
• Local public holidays (with the ability to exchange them for alternative days)
• Hybrid working model, to allow you the flexibility to decide how, where and when you do your best work
• Work abroad for up to 3 months a year
• 1 month paid sabbatical after 5 years of service
• Enhanced parental leave & flexible working arrangements available

Training & Culture 

• Professional learning and development budget
• Quarterly team socials
• Bi-annual engineering hackathons 
• Summer and Winter company social events
• Travel & accommodation budget for social attendance if living far from London

9fin is an equal opportunities employer

Don’t meet every single requirement? At 9fin we are dedicated to building and promoting a fair and inclusive workplace where everyone can flourish, reach their full potential and truly belong. We recognise diverse teams allow a more creative and productive environment. So, if you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t perfectly align with the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be who we’re looking for - for this role, or perhaps another.