Engineering Manager

Hybrid – London | 2–3 days per week in office

Immersum is partnering with a global payments business looking for an Engineering Manager to lead their Banking & FX tribe, managing a team of 6–8 engineers working across payments, FX, ledgers and banking integrations.

This is a people-first leadership role with enough technical depth to challenge decisions, support engineers and own delivery.

The Role:

• Lead and manage a team of 6–8 engineers
• Own delivery, OKRs, forecasting and prioritisation
• Work closely with Product, Design and business stakeholders
• Turn client problems into software that gets shipped and supported
• Set technical direction alongside senior engineers
• Maintain high standards around quality, testing, security and reliability
• Own production services, incidents, on-call and observability
• Drive mentoring, progression, performance and hiring
• Champion pragmatic agile ways of working
• Shape how the team uses AI, including Claude Code

What We’re Looking For:

• Proven experience managing and leading software engineers
• Strong C#, Azure and SQL knowledge
• Experience owning business-critical production services
• Understanding of asynchronous/event-driven systems
• Strong product mindset and commercial awareness
• Comfortable making technical decisions and challenging when needed
• Experience working with AI in software development
• Background in a regulated environment

Why Join:

• Lead a genuinely business-critical engineering function
• High level of ownership and autonomy
• Modern .NET 10, Azure and AI tooling
• Strong focus on engineering quality and people development
• Bonus, 25 days holiday + bank holidays, healthcare, enhanced parental leave and more