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Software Engineering Manager

Join Hargreaves Lansdown and be part of the team building software for the UK’s largest investment platform.

With over 40 years of history, Hargreaves Lansdown has become the UK’s well-established investment platform for private clients, used by 2 million investors and managing more than £172 billion in savings and investments. HL’s platform allows clients to bring all their ISAs, pensions, SIPPs, and savings into one easy-to-manage place.

HL Tech is a Polish technology hub, part of the Hargreaves Lansdown Digital division (700 colleagues). We build software used daily by millions of private investors and underpin the entire HL investment platform, shaping how it evolves, adding new features, improving reliability and strengthening HL’s market position. We don’t just maintain the existing platform; we build new products and capabilities that move it forward.

We’re looking for a Software Engineering Manager to coordinate one of our squads within the Trading domain: Pre-Trade, New Dealing Journeys, or Trade Execution. Each squad plays a key role in delivering functionality that matters to clients - from enabling informed investment choices, to streamlining order placement, to ensuring fast and reliable trade execution. Squad assignment will be based on experience and team fit. All squads operate in a dynamic, product-centric environment focused on delivery excellence.

We’re seeking someone with practical experience in continuous delivery, including daily deployments and ownership of production systems. The ideal candidate is comfortable engaging in strategic discussions with Product Owners, identifying the most valuable features, and defining and measuring metrics to track progress toward business goals.

Our squads work with modern technologies such as React, React Native, Java, Spring Boot, SQL and AWS. Familiarity with distributed systems, microservices and high-availability environments is highly desirable, particularly for roles closer to backend and execution layers. We value engineering managers who foster ownership, teamwork and continuous improvement, and who guide their teams through complex technical and product problems with clarity and purpose.

General information

  • Possible work locations:
    remote/hybrid
  • Salary gross (CoE):
    23 000 – 29 000 PLN
  • Employment type:
    permanent contract of employment (after 3-month trial period)
  • HL Tech size:
    65 people in Poland – part of the British Hargreaves Lansdown Group (2,500 colleagues)
  • Reporting to:
    Senior Engineering Manager
  • Tribe:
    Trading

Why join us?

  • Work the way you want – Most colleagues work remotely, but you can also work from our office in WeWork Mennica Tower in central Warsaw. Please note, all work must be performed within Poland, as remote work from abroad is not allowed.
  • Healthy work-life balance – we value your time, which means no overtime culture.
  • Helpful, knowledge-exchange team – work jointly with experienced engineers who are passionate about clean code, best practices, and continuous learning.
  • Modern tools & technologies – develop enterprise-scale solutions in a technology-focused environment.

What you’ll do

  • Strategic Direction: Conduct strategy sessions and document actionable plans with clear OKRs for solution delivery.
  • Project Efficiency: Implement frequent review processes to evaluate squad performance, using tools like productivity metrics and feedback surveys. Cultivate solid relationships and track engagement through feedback scores.
  • Mentorship: Schedule mentoring sessions with junior squad members and track improvements in performance through frequent assessments.
  • Team Composition: Assess squad composition regularly to ensure alignment with business needs, aiming for skill diversity.
  • Documentation: Facilitate code, schedule design review meetings and process documentation. Conduct frequent audits to ensure compliance.
  • Squad Performance Development: Accountable for overseeing the development and advancement of direct reports using the skill progression framework, ensuring frequent one-on-one meetings and monitoring development plans.
  • Communication: Host frequent squad meetings with documented agendas, schedule 1:1s with squad members and ensure productivity within the squad.
  • Recruitment & Onboarding: Take part in frequent review processes to identify and escalate resource needs, ensure SLAs are met, run interviews and own & iterate the Squad onboarding documentation.

Requirements

Must have:

  • Min C1-level proficiency in both English and Polish – you will use both languages in all aspects of your daily work.
  • Delivers squad goals on time, to quality and often beyond expectation.
  • Drives continuous improvement throughout the development life cycle and is always looking at opportunities to improve our processes.
  • Focuses on achieving business results for others, with a focus on maximising the success of their squad.
  • Cultivates high-performing culture within their squad.
  • Able to introduce new skills to their squad through personal experience, external networks or hiring top talent.
  • Experience in technology management roles within large-scale, regulated environments – ideally in Investment, Asset or Wealth Management.
  • Track record of managing and scaling high-performing software engineering teams, balancing delivery and innovation.
  • Solid engineering background with the ability to convey rationale and choices to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Client- and product-focused mindset, with experience partnering closely with Product Managers and business teams.
  • You embrace ambiguity, foster teamwork, and promote psychological safety to help teams navigate change.
  • Good stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and align cross-functional teams.

Benefits

  • Copy rights (50% tax relief due to creative type of work)
  • PPE (4% employer contribution without any additional cost nor employee contributions required)
  • Annual bonus depending on performance
  • Conference & Training budget
  • English lessons with native speakers
  • Private health care & Life insurance
  • MyBenefit Cafeteria (benefits platform)
  • 2 additional days for volunteering events
  • Team events
  • Buddy programme
  • Opportunity to grow according to your level of expertise
  • Working with new technologies and a multi-diverse team
  • Many opportunities to share knowledge and ideas
  • In-house Trainings

Read more about our benefits

We are 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.

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