[Hiring] Engineering Manager @Ripjar

Role Description

As Engineering Manager, you’ll lead two high-performing, diverse teams of software engineers tackling one of the most pressing challenges of our time: detecting and preventing financial crime at scale. You’ll play a pivotal role in delivering technically sound, mission-critical solutions with a clear purpose and measurable impact.

• Lead and manage multidisciplinary engineering teams delivering reliable, scalable solutions to tackle money laundering and other financial crimes.
• Support and develop your team through coaching, consistent performance feedback, and creating professional development opportunities to ensure each team member has what they need to succeed. Champion a culture of accountability, proactivity, and trust.
• Own and drive product delivery in alignment with the roadmap. Meet commitments, remove blockers, and ensure the team can operate effectively.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product Managers, Technical Leads, Support, Delivery, and other Engineering Managers to shape the team roadmap and deliverables.
• Take a proactive role in refining and evolving engineering processes, instilling operational discipline, predictability, and clarity.
• Contribute to the wider engineering community through leadership in agile practices, process improvements, and knowledge sharing.
• Maintain a healthy engineering culture by encouraging psychological safety, clarity in roles, and structured decision-making.

While this isn't a hands-on coding role, you'll engage confidently in technical conversations with your team. You'll have a solid working knowledge of modern programming languages and software development practices. Familiarity with our stack (k8s, Node.js, React, Python, Elasticsearch, Kafka, MongoDB, and Redis) is helpful but not essential.

Qualifications

• A natural mentor and team developer—you understand how to get the best from people while managing performance professionally.
• Strong experience in engineering leadership, with a track record of implementing process improvements and raising operational standards.
• Experience in agile environments and delivering production-grade software as part of a collaborative team.
• Technically credible: while you won’t be coding day-to-day, you can engage confidently with engineers on design decisions, tooling, and technical trade-offs.
• Comfortable with structured planning, performance management, and aligning engineering efforts with company objectives.
• Familiarity with distributed systems and large-scale JavaScript codebases is a bonus.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary DOE
• Fully remote working with occasional travel.
• 25 days annual leave + your birthday off and Christmas shutdown, rising to 30 days after 5 years of service
• 35 hour working week
• Flexible working hours
• Life assurance
• Private Family Healthcare
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Company contributions to your pension
• Enhanced maternity/paternity pay
• The latest tech including a top of the range MacBook Pro
• Office equipped with well-stocked pantries with food, snacks, and drinks when in the office