Engineering Manager

We’re on a mission to protect society from fraud and money laundering. We’ve already protected over 2 million people through life’s big transactions, with a core aim to protect 3 million people by the end of 2025.

Fraud and regulation are rising, costing the UK economy over £100bn every year; this makes it more difficult for businesses to protect themselves and their clients - individuals like you and me - from fraud and money laundering.

Our co-founders Olly and Jack were led to this area when a friend was defrauded of £25K when buying their first property. At the time, anti-fraud technology didn’t exist, which meant that completing the anti-fraud checks required in these processes was largely manual. These big life moments should be exciting, but instead are often confusing and scary due to the painful process of completing these paper-based checks and the risk of fraud.

Thirdfort helps businesses to facilitate these anti fraud checks so that individuals know they can transact safely and seamlessly with professionals during these big transactions. Our anti-fraud platform provides a secure way for professionals in regulated sectors like Lawyers, Estate Agents and Accountants to transfer funds and verify sensitive information through app based document checks, facial recognition and open banking.

Over 1,500 businesses now trust Thirdfort to verify their clients. We are FCA regulated and have raised over $33m in capital from leading Fintech investors Breega and Element Ventures, as well as the founders of Zoopla, Funding Circle, Comply Advantage, Tessian, Fenergo and Fidel.

Engineering at Thirdfort:

At Thirdfort, we’re working to build an outstanding engineering culture that empowers our team to do their best work. We have a culture which cultivates an honest and open environment, where everyone’s opinions are heard and valued.

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to join our Client team within the Engineering function. Your mission will be to effectively manage the daily delivery practices of the team, ensuring the quality and security of the domain and striving for predictable and repeatable success - with no nasty surprises for stakeholders. You will achieve this through empowering the team to own and drive their problem space, promoting collaboration and support, collaborating with stakeholders across the business, and shaping the technical direction of the product.

We don’t expect you to be coding hands on, but we do expect you to lead and guide the technical domain of your team and understand and empathise with their work. You will need to understand technical concepts, be able to review code and contribute meaningfully to technical discussions, and make pragmatic decisions about feature delivery and maintenance to unblock your team. You will set high standards for your team, be accountable for the efficiency and quality of their delivery, and ensure their deep engagement with product outcomes.

Our Product and Tech teams are remote first and so this individual can be based anywhere in the UK. This does not mean though that our remote first team aren’t welcome in our offices as we value the times when we can come together in person. Ultimately we trust our team to work in the way that suits them best.

As an Engineering Manager, you will:

• Be a prominent voice within the engineering leadership and broader technology leadership teams that leads on culture and process as well as on technology.
• Play a core role in renewing our architecture and delivering the foundations for rapid future growth.
• Enable a team of 6-9 engineers to deliver creative, effective and strongly business aligned solutions to client problems.
• Partner deeply across departments - particularly with Product, Sales/Account Management and Support.
• Continually communicate work in flight, its impact and long term goals to stakeholders - ensuring that there are no nasty surprises.

Ensure that fundamental best practices are upheld on quality, delivery and security - targeting Good to Elite DORA Benchmark scores through:

• True CICD
• Robust automated testing
• Effective PR and review practices
• Delightful documentation
• Identifying and eliminating bottlenecks through out the SDLC (culture, process and technology)
• Maintain the health and performance of the team through excellent communication, clear expectations, accountability, effective feedback, and balancing autonomy with collaboration.
• Coach and mentor team members to navigate a complex, ambiguous and exciting space in a Series A startup!

We’re looking for someone who:

• Has demonstrable experience leading a team of 5-9 software engineers.
• Has at least a year’s experience hands on coding in roles such as Software Engineer, Engineer in Test, Data Engineer etc.
• Has a strongly product led approach to engineering
• Has excellent communication and collaboration skills, particularly with non-technical stakeholders
• Is able to tell meaningful stories about their team’s performance and challenges, particularly with reference to data.
• Has worked remotely and knows how to build a strong remote-first culture
• Has worked in fast paced, rapidly changing environments such as startups

You might be an excellent fit if you:

• Have lead a number of different teams of varying shapes and sizes.
• Have in-depth coaching and project management experience

Have previous experience with:

• Google Cloud Platform
• Go
• Next.js
• Mobile App development (Native, React Native)

Studies show that women and other less represented groups are less likely to apply for roles unless they meet every requirement. We believe in building a diverse team, valuing different skills and experiences and so if you don’t think you have all the requirements listed here but feel this could be a role and environment you’d thrive in, we would still love for you to apply.

Life at Thirdfort:

• Driven by our values, our culture promotes a collaborative and open environment where Thirdforters can take ownership, have impact, and feel empowered when it comes to their growth and development. We understand the importance of our teams wellbeing and recognise a one-size fits all approach rarely works, that’s why we aim to provide the flexibility individuals need to work in the way that suits them, and their families, best.

Our Benefits:

• We include compensation ranges on our job ads in the spirit of Operating Openly and in an effort to make our interview process more inclusive. We list a range that aligns with our internal banding which is based on varying factors including external benchmarking for our stage and size as a business. In terms of how we decide where an individual fits within the band, we’d take you through the interview process and assess you against our internal performance framework which gives us further clarity. We’ll also have open conversations with you throughout the interview process (starting in the first stage call) so we can be as open as possible about compensation as we understand how important it is to ensure we’re aligned.
• We’ve created our benefits package to reflect Thirdfort’s mission and values. We place a strong focus on Security first given what we do, extending this to our team’s physical, mental and financial security to support them through their big life moments. Our benefits exist to empower our team, ensuring they feel supported and able to work in the way that enables them to do their best work.

When you join Thirdfort, you’ll get immediate access to our flexible employee benefits package that aims to support you across these areas:

• Compensation - £85K- £110K p.a. base salary
• Share options for all employees
• Flexible Working Hours
• Enhanced parental leave
• Customisable wellness budget and £250 WFH Budget
• Up to 30 days Working from Abroad
• Uncapped holiday
• Enhanced sick leave
• Private healthcare with our provider, AXA
• Regular company and team socials
• Uncapped budget for personal development
• Share options for all employees
• Regular company and team socials
• Enhanced employer matching pension scheme with salary sacrifice options
• Access to our Cycle to Work scheme and our Electric Car Scheme

We’re committed to building an inclusive, equitable and diverse culture where everyone has a chance to make a difference. We’re purposefully building a team of problem-solvers that reflect our values - which is why we hire from all backgrounds. If you're a curious, kind individual who takes ownership, you'll be a great Thirdforter.

If you require any reasonable adjustments during the application or interview process, please let your dedicated Talent Manager know and we’ll do our best to accommodate.

If you find this form difficult to navigate, please contact careers@thirdfort.com and we’ll do our best to find a way to work with you.