Job Description
Ruby on Rails Engineering Manager - Financial Services
Excellent opportunity opens for a Ruby on Rails Engineering Manager to join an Established Financial Services Organisation. You will take ownership of the organisation's Home Finance application stack, lead a team of Ruby on Rails engineers and push through architecture and delivery.
Key Responsibilities
* Lead, coach and inspire a stream-aligned product engineering team, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, psychological safety and high performance.
* Drive adoption of agile, DevSecOps and modern engineering practices, optimising the flow of change and reducing time-to-value.
* Collaborate cross-functionally to deliver secure, stable and scalable solutions that support Home Finance operations and customer outcomes.
* Ensure regulatory compliance (including FCA MCOB) and operational excellence across the platform.
* Shape the technology roadmap, contributing to architectural decisions and cloud migration strategies.
* Manage operational risk, security posture, monitoring, alerting and incident response for Home Finance systems.
* Use data and insights to guide prioritisation, engineering improvements and product decisions.
* Support talent development, succession planning and recruitment to build a high-performing engineering capability.
* Manage budgets responsibly, improving cost efficiency and value delivery.
* Define and track team and departmental OKRs, ensuring alignment with the organisation's strategy.
* Build strong relationships with third-party suppliers to maximise value and service quality.
Experience/Qualifications
* Strong understanding of mortgage origination/administration systems or comparable regulated financial platforms.
* Experience delivering and operating web-based MVC applications (eg, Ruby on Rails, React) and APIs.
* Skilled in designing, managing and optimising relational SQL databases.
* Hands-on knowledge of cloud platforms (Azure or GCP) and cloud-native architectures.
* Broad engineering experience across DevSecOps, automation, CI/CD, infrastructure, monitoring and security best practice ("shift-left").
* Proven track record of running critical production services with a focus on stability, performance and security.
* A degree or equivalent professional experience.
Interested? Please Apply!
Ruby on Rails, RoR, MySQL, SQL, JavaScript, React, API development, MVC, DevOps, CI/CD, Azure, Jenkins, GitLab, Docker, Kubernetes, Agile, Financial Services, Mortgages, Lending Systems