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Ebury

Global payments, currency risk management, lending

Engineering Manager - Identity

Engineering LeadershipConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeLondon, UK

About the Job

Requirements

  • Proven experience managing and developing software engineering teams, with mentorship and high delivery standards.
  • Hands-on credibility building and operating distributed systems at scale, including AWS, event-driven architecture, and APIs.
  • Ability to define an interview bar, run rigorous hiring processes, and close exceptional talent from scratch.
  • Hands-on use of AI coding tools and informed approaches to leveraging AI for team productivity and product capabilities.
  • Focus on client value, pragmatic scoping, and disciplined handling of money-movement systems, including idempotency and reconciliation.
  • Fluency in English and ability to articulate complex technical ideas and align cross-functional teams.
  • Experience working on scalable platforms that define and operate authentication and fine-grained authorisation functions.
  • Proven experience as an Engineering Manager or in a similar leadership role, leading and supporting engineers.
  • Experience working in fintech or the financial services industry.
  • Experience working in a multi-channel, multi-product-driven environment.
  • Deep understanding of software development methodologies and best practices.
  • Experience with agile development processes.
  • Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and grow engineers through actionable feedback, clear growth paths, and performance management.
  • Translate ambiguous business outcomes into clear roadmaps, sequence work, manage risk, and deliver reliably at a sustainable pace.
  • Guide architecture and design reviews for high-scale, event-driven transactional systems on AWS and BigQuery.
  • Partner with Product, Design, and Business Domains to shape customer solutions and influence strategic trade-offs.
  • Ensure production-grade stability, humane on-call loads, testing standards, continuous integration and continuous delivery, and strong observability.
  • Integrate AI tools into development workflows safely and effectively while maintaining ownership of shipped code.
  • Build high-throughput, mission-critical authentication and authorisation controls; architect and scale platform services governing permissions across human, service, and bot identities.
  • Take client problems end-to-end, owning experience, APIs, data, and iteration.
  • Build scalable, generalisable platforms and retire technical debt and feature flags alongside shipping features.

Desired Qualifications

  • Fintech, payments, or regulated-domain experience; experience on early founding hub teams; or web and mobile channel exposure.
  • Experience building enterprise-level Identity and Access Management platforms or Fine-Grained Access Control systems, and defining authorisation policies.
  • Knowledge of advanced authentication techniques such as device binding and attestation, and experience consolidating fragmented user identities into a unified identity model.
  • Familiarity with cloud computing platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, and containerisation technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes.
  • Contributions to open-source projects or a personal portfolio demonstrating technical curiosity and skill.
  • Experience with Domain-Driven Design and standardising communication patterns in a centralised architecture.

About the Company

Ebury

Global payments, currency risk management, lending

Ebury helps businesses manage cross-border payments, currency risk, and financing. Its platform provides global and local accounts, competitive currency conversion, bulk payments, APIs, and mobile access, with rate locks across 60+ currencies to protect margins. It sticks out through FCA-regulated infrastructure with segregated funds in Tier-1 banks, along with relationship-manager support and the option to embed its tools into clients’ platforms; Banco Santander is a majority owner. Its goal is to help companies scale internationally with predictable costs and streamlined finance operations.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
Private
Total funding
$111.4M
Headquarters
London, United Kingdom
Founded
2009

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