Senior Engineering Manager
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About the team
The Global Bank engineering organisation is responsible for the financial infrastructure that powers SumUp's banking products across multiple markets — and this role sits at the heart of it. As a Senior Engineering Manager, you'll provide leadership across a critical product area and cross-cutting initiatives, ensuring engineering delivery is resilient, scalable, and aligned with regulatory requirements. What makes this opportunity genuinely exciting is that you won't just be stepping into an existing structure — you'll be the first Senior EM based in London, with the mandate to build a team around you and grow a meaningful engineering presence in one of the world's strongest tech talent markets.
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What you'll do
Lead and develop a group of Engineering Managers, supporting their growth through coaching, skip-levels, and performance conversations, while also directly managing a small squad of engineers in London
Own one or more strategic engineering initiatives within the Global Bank — defining scope, aligning with product leadership, and driving delivery across squads and tribes
Establish and uplift tribe-wide engineering practices across areas such as observability, incident response, security, or AI workflows, setting standards that go beyond a single squad
Act as a senior escalation point for production incidents and complex cross-squad technical challenges, driving resolution and follow-through
Partner closely with InfoSec, Risk, Compliance, and Internal Audit to ensure engineering practices meet regulatory requirements and are audit-ready
Serve as a bar raiser in hiring panels and talent reviews, helping to maintain a consistent and high standard of engineering across the tribe
You'll be great for this role if …
Proven track record of managing Engineering Managers, with experience in coaching, performance management, and talent reviews in a complex, multi-squad environment
Strong technical bac
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£45,000 – £60,000 (Glassdoor, Levels.fyi, 2025)
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