By joining us, you will help deliver innovative, scalable solutions that make investing simpler and more accessible to millions of users across the UK.
Be part of HL’s future. Be part of the future of investing. Shape it with us.
What you’ll do
As an Engineering Manager, you will lead across four core areas: people, delivery, technical decision-making, and strategic alignment. You will act as a key bridge between engineering and the business, ensuring that technical direction supports product outcomes and client needs. While this is not a hands-on coding role, a strong technical foundation is essential to effectively guide your team and shape solutions.
Co-own the product roadmap with your Product Manager, defining clear outcomes, shaping scope, and making data-informed trade-offs across value, effort, and risk.
Drive technical decision-making by setting engineering standards, guiding architecture, and reviewing solutions across web and mobile (React / React Native) applications.
Forecast delivery using capacity and flow metrics, communicating timelines, dependencies, and risks early and transparently.
Establish engineering guardrails across scope, quality, and non-functional requirements, enabling teams to design optimal solutions within them.
Champion observability and operational excellence, ensuring system health, SLOs, and alerting are visible and actively managed.
Partner with Tech Leads and Architects on system design and evolution, bringing structured thinking to complex, distributed environments.
Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement, helping teams navigate technical and product challenges with clarity and purpose.
Grow and develop engineers through coaching, feedback, hiring, and creating an environment that supports autonomy, mastery, and purpose.
Remove blockers, drive cross-functional alignment, and maintain a sustainable, predictable delivery cadence.
What you bring
7+ years of experience building full‑stack applications, with 2+ years leading engineering teams.
Strong technical background across frontend, mobile, and backend systems, including React, React Native, and modern API-driven architectures.
Solid experience with AWS and cloud-native platforms (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes), with a focus on scalability, resilience, and distributed systems.
Good understanding of full‑stack architecture, including API design and integration, performance optimisation, security, and microservice or event-driven patterns.
Experience with CI/CD, modern development workflows, and observability practices.
Proven track record of leading high-performing teams in fast-paced, complex or regulated environments.
Passion for mentoring and developing engineers through coaching, feedback, and code reviews, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
Ability to connect engineering, product, and business needs to deliver seamless, end-to-end client journeys.
Strong communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills, with the ability to influence and build alignment across teams.
Why us?
Here at HL, we’re the UK’s number 1 investment platform for private investors, based in Bristol. For more than 40 years we’ve helped investors save time, tax and money on their investments.
To achieve our mission, we believe we have a workplace like no other, with constant learning, dynamic teams, and a great ethos. We're steered by core values that promote service, quality, innovation, and opportunity in everything we do.
What's on offer?
Discretionary annual bonus* and annual pay review
25 days* holiday plus bank holidays and 1-day additional Christmas closure
Option to purchase an additional 5 days holiday**
Flexible working options available, including hybrid working
Enhanced parental leave
Pension scheme up to 11% employer contribution
Income Protection and Life insurance (4 x salary core level of cover)
Private medical insurance*
Health care cash plans - including optical, dental, and outpatient care
Health screening programme
Help@hand - confidential support including mental health counselling and remote GP
Wellhub - unlimited access to fitness providers and wellness coach sessions
Variety of travel to work schemes with bike storage and shower facilities
Inhouse barista and deli serving subsidised coffee and sandwiches
Two paid volunteering days per year
dependant on role level
only available to select during our annual benefits window, in November each year
Hargreaves Lansdown is an inclusive employer that values diversity in its workforce. We encourage applications from all individuals without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.
This role may also be available on a flexible working or part time basis – please ask the Recruitment & Onboarding team for more information.
Please note, we are unable to provide employment sponsorship to candidates.
