Engineering Manager (Growth Team)

Ebury is a leading global fintech company that empowers businesses to trade and grow internationally. It offers a comprehensive suite of products, including international payments and collections, FX risk management, trade finance, and API integrations. Founded in 2009 by Juan Lobato and Salvador García, Ebury is one of the fastest-growing global fintechs, with over 1,700 employees and 38 offices in more than 25 countries.

London Victoria Office - Hybrid: 4 days in the office, 1 day working from home

The Growth team at Ebury is seeking an Engineering Manager to play a crucial part in our team. In this role, you will build a new team and have a huge impact on Ebury's business. We have an exciting backlog of exciting greenfield projects, ready to go.

We're looking for the right attitude, work ethic, and entrepreneurial spirit to ask the hard questions. To be informed by data, but be led by a desire to solve our customers' problems. You should learn by default and be ever curious. You should be programming language, framework, tool agnostic but have strong opinions (weakly held) on the right tool to solve our biggest problems.

What we offer:

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Discretionary bonus based on performance
• Continued personal development through training and certification
• We are Open Source friendly, following Open Source principles in our internal projects and encouraging contributions to external projects

Responsibilities:

• Drive growth for Ebury.
• Understand company and client challenges, be customer-focused.
• Manage product priorities.
• Represent the team in different forums.
• Work closely with Product to have clear implementation plans for product roadmaps.
• Foster technical decision-making on the team, but make final decisions when necessary.
• Define and implement best practices for monitoring, incident management, and troubleshooting of infrastructure and applications.
• Design and implement automation tools and processes to improve efficiency and reduce downtime.
• Participate in the design and implementation of new systems and services to ensure they meet our reliability and scalability requirements.
• Manage the team's performance, develop career paths, and provide coaching and mentoring to team members.
• Give regular and clear feedback around an individual's performance.
• Keep up-to-date with emerging technologies, tools, and practices.
• Set clear team goals.
• Delegate tasks and set deadlines for your team.

About you:

• Experience building customer and or sales-facing technology.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience).
• Experience in applying AI/ML to solve customer problems would be a bonus.
• 2+ years of experience in managing teams.
• Organizational and time-management skills.
• Strong knowledge of Linux systems, cloud infrastructure, networking, and databases.
• Hands-on experience with automation tools and scripting languages (e.g. Python, Bash, Ansible, Terraform).
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely in English, both written and spoken.

About Us

Ebury is a FinTech success story, positioned among the fastest-growing international companies in its sector.

Founded in 2009, we are headquartered in London and have more than 1700 staff with a presence in more than 25 countries worldwide. Cultural diversity is part of what makes Ebury a special place to be. From Sao Paulo to Dubai, Bucharest to Toronto, we enjoy sharing team experiences and celebrating success across the Ebury family.

Hard work pays off: in 2019, Ebury received a £350 million investment from Banco Santander and has won internationally recognised awards including Financial Times: 1000 Europe's Fastest-Growing Companies.

None of this would have been possible without our proudest achievement: our great people. Enthusiastic, innovative and collaborative teams, always ready to disrupt and revolutionise the fast-paced FinTech sector.

We believe in inclusion. We stand against discrimination in all forms and have no tolerance for the intolerance of differences that makes us a modern and successful organisation. At Ebury, you can be whoever you want to be and still feel a sense of belonging no matter your story because we want you and your uniqueness to help write our future.