<div class="content-intro"><p>Ebury helps ambitious businesses unlock global growth, and we take the same approach with our people. We encourage innovation and movement, collaboration and problem-solving, and foster an environment where everyone can feel they belong, are valued, supported and empowered to succeed.</p> <p>If you’re a collaborator who wants to help transform how businesses operate globally, get in touch - we’d love to discuss how Ebury can accelerate your career so you can shape the future.</p></div><p><strong>Engineering Manager (Identity Team)</strong></p> <p><strong>London Office - Hybrid: 4 days in the office, 1 day working from home</strong></p> <p>As an Engineering Manager for the Identity Platform, you will lead the team responsible for building high-throughput, mission-critical authentication and authorisation controls. You will architect and scale platform services that define and govern permissions across human, service, and bot identities, ensuring a secure, seamless banking-and-payments experience across Ebury.</p> <h2>Why This Role is Different</h2> <ul> <li><strong>Own Client Outcomes: </strong>Take real client problems end-to-end, owning experience, APIs, data, and iteration with full trust and autonomy.</li> <li><strong>Player-Coach Early, Leader Always: </strong>Stay close to code early on (pairing, reviewing, shipping) and transition leverage into building people and systems as the team grows.</li> <li><strong>Platform-First Thinking: </strong>Build scalable, generalisable platforms rather than bespoke one-offs. Value retiring technical debt and flags as much as shipping features.</li> <li><strong>AI-Native Culture: </strong>Fluent in AI tools as force multipliers, guiding the team on effective adoption and designing AI into the product.</li> </ul> <h1>Key Responsibilities</h1> <ul> <li><strong>Grow the Team:</strong> Coach engineers through actionable feedback, clear growth paths, and performance management.</li> <li><strong>Delivery Ownership: </strong>Translate ambiguous business outcomes into clear roadmaps. Sequence work, manage risk, and deliver reliably at a sustainable pace.</li> <li><strong>Technical Leadership: </strong>Guide architecture and design reviews for high-scale, event-driven transactional systems on AWS and BigQuery.</li> <li><strong>Cross-Functional Partnership: </strong>Partner closely with Product, Design and Business Domains to shape customer solutions and influence strategic trade-offs.</li> <li><strong>Operational Health: </strong>Ensure production-grade stability, humane on-call loads, testing standards, CI/CD, and strong observability.</li> <li><strong>Responsible AI Adoption: </strong>Integrate AI tools into development workflows safely and effectively while maintaining complete ownership of shipped code.</li> </ul> <h1>What We're Looking For</h1> <ul> <li><strong>Engineering Leadership: </strong>Proven experience managing and developing software engineering teams with a track record of mentorship and high delivery standards.</li> <li><strong>Technical Depth: </strong>Solid CS foundation with hands-on credibility building/operating distributed systems at scale (AWS, event-driven architecture, APIs).</li> <li><strong>Hiring Instincts: </strong>Ability to define an interview bar, run rigorous hiring processes, and close exceptional talent from scratch.</li> <li><strong>AI Fluency: </strong>Hands-on usage of AI coding tools and strong opinions on how teams best leverage AI for productivity and product capabilities.</li> <li><strong>Product & Quality Mindset: </strong>Focus on client value, pragmatic scoping, and high discipline around money-movement systems (idempotency, reconciliation).</li> <li><strong>Communication: </strong>Fluency in English with exceptional ability to articulate complex technical ideas and align cross-functional teams.</li> <li><strong>Identity and User Management:</strong> Have worked on scalable platforms that define and operate authentication and fine grained authorisation functions. </li> <li><strong>Nice to Have: </strong>Fintech/payments/regulated domain experience, experience on early founding hub teams, or web & mobile channel exposure.</li> </ul> <h1>What We Offer</h1> <ul> <li><strong>Competitive Package: </strong>Strong base salary, performance-based bonus, and comprehensive benefits tailored to a senior leadership role.</li> <li><strong>Career Progression: </strong>Clear leadership paths, senior mentorship, and room to grow across technical and organisational domains.</li> <li><strong>Challenging Problems: </strong>The opportunity to work on complex, intellectually stimulating projects that have a significant and measurable business impact.</li> <li><strong>Premium Equipment: </strong>High-end MacBook Pro and the required tools. </li> <li><strong>Collaborative Culture: </strong>An inclusive, high-performing environment rewarding technical excellence, decision-making, and constructive challenge.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Required Qualifications</strong></p> <ul> <li>Proven experience as an Engineering Manager or in a similar leadership role, leading and supporting engineers.</li> <li>Experience working in