Engineering Manager
This is a hands-on leadership role where you’ll balance execution, technical strategy, and team development — keeping quality high while enabling fast, continuous delivery.
- Lead and develop a team of engineers, providing technical guidance and mentorship
- Own delivery from ambiguous requirements through to production-ready solutions
- Partner with Product and Agile to shape priorities, sizing, and roadmap delivery
- Drive high standards across quality, scalability, performance, and reliability
- Manage technical debt while delivering new features at pace
- Ensure strong observability, incident response, and engineering best practices
- Collaborate across teams to manage dependencies and align delivery
- Foster a culture of technical excellence, continuous improvement, and automation
- Work with Platform and Architecture to evolve technical strategy
- Build a high-performing, inclusive team focused on ownership and outcomes
- Hire, coach, and grow engineers, with clear goals and regular feedback
- Contribute to wider engineering initiatives and community growth
You balance technical depth with strong leadership — able to guide engineers, influence stakeholders, and drive outcomes in complex environments. Also:
- Proven experience leading engineering teams in product-led environments
- Strong delivery focus, with experience owning projects end-to-end
- Solid technical background with the ability to guide design and architecture decisions
- Experienced working closely with Product to deliver against roadmaps
- Passion for engineering excellence, quality, and continuous improvement
- Strong people leadership — coaching, mentoring, and developing high-performing teams
- Comfortable managing ambiguity and driving clarity in complex environments
- Excellent stakeholder communication and collaboration skills
- A proactive, outcome-driven mindset with a focus on impact over process
We show up each day ready to take on the world. Our passion and intensity set us apart and makes the difference to our colleagues, customers, brokers and carriers.
Challenge everything:
We’re never afraid to question the way that things are done and we constantly challenge ourselves and others to makes things better.
Have fun, be good:
Insurance is a serious business, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously. We make it fun to work at CFC, we welcome all viewpoints, and we treat everyone how we would expect to be treated.
About the Company
CFC is a specialist insurance provider, pioneering emerging risk and market leader in cyber. Our global insurance platform uses cutting-edge technology and data science to deliver smarter, faster underwriting and protect customers from today's most critical business risk.
Headquartered in London with offices across Europe, USA and Australia, CFC has over 1100 employees and is trusted by more than 150,000 businesses in 90 countries.
At CFC, insurance isn't just about underwriting. From data science to software development, and digital marketing design, we've got something for everyone. We're passionate about pushing boundaries, thinking differently and building the insurance company of the future.
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