Avanti recruitment is currently working with a leading award-winning FinTech company based near Epsom, who are looking for an Engineering Manager who is looking to stay close to the code. You’ll spend between 30-50% of your time coding, and the rest of your time on people leadership and delivery management. This role is central to a major modernisation project, moving from a legacy monolithic application to a modern microservices and cloud-based architecture. This role will require you on-site 4 days per week, with 1 day remote working. Your responsibilities: * Own delivery within a small, high-performing team (currently 3 developers + 1 SRE). * Stay hands-on with Java, Spring Boot, microservices, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes and guide best practice. * Run daily stand up meetings * Lead on system design and architecture for services and modernisation of legacy code * Provide day to day technical and people leadership (Mentoring, 1-to-1s, conflict resolution and career progression) * Implement escalation and incident management processes, ensuring resilience and reliability * Report on progress to the Head of Technology, and keep them up to date with progress reports * Act as a bridge between development, operations and other business functions (e.g. Trading, Change) Experience required * Must have people leadership experience (1-2-1’s, escalation point, disciplinary action when needed e...