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About the Role

NALA is building Payments for the Next Billion, aiming for faster, smarter, and fairer transfers globally. The Engineering Manager will drive delivery, process, and people management within their squad, acting as a liaison between product and engineering to ensure alignment, predictability, and quality execution while supporting individual growth.

Responsibilities

Run squad ceremonies, sprint objectives, and roadmap tracking, keeping engineers unblocked day to day.
Own architectural decisions for your squad, reviewing RFCs and PRs, and monitoring quality post-rollout.
Run 1:1s and retros, and own the career development and growth of your direct reports.
Contribute as an IC where it counts: small to mid-sized PRs, code review, and leading incident response.
Own hiring for your squad: build the hiring plan, run the full recruiting funnel, and onboard new hires.
Act as primary engineering liaison to Finance and Compliance, translating business requirements into technically sound solutions.
Partner with your Product Manager to keep roadmap and delivery aligned, holding the line on what "ready" means before work enters a sprint.

Requirements

Deep experience managing engineers directly, not through a matrixed or "tech lead with influence" structure.
Understanding of what "great" engineering output looks like and how to calibrate performance against it.
Proficiency in running structured people processes: 1:1s, feedback, performance reviews, and career development conversations.
Ability to decompose large initiatives into vertical slices and sequence delivery to de-risk unknowns.
Hands-on Go experience sufficient to read code, participate in architecture reviews, and form an independent technical view.
Experience managing individuals with a structured 1:1 framework, regular feedback, and independence on the people side within 30 days.
Ability to manage performance by reading PRs and design reviews to judge technical quality directly.
Experience in recruitment and hiring: writing job specs and scorecards, running interview loops, and owning requisitions end to end.
Proficiency in project management: running scrum ceremonies with metrics (velocity, cycle time, predictability), and forecasting delivery honestly and early.
Strong cross-functional collaboration skills: holding a line with Product on readiness, escalating with a proposal, and disagreeing-and-committing.
Ability to balance quality and pragmatism: shipping pragmatic solutions when appropriate and holding the quality line when necessary.
Clear, structured English communication skills, comfortable writing RFCs and presenting technical decisions.
2+ years directly line-managing 4 to 8 engineers.
Experience owning delivery for a squad of 5 to 8 engineers through multi-quarter projects, without a dedicated scrum master or delivery manager.
Experience running 20+ interviews and owning at least one requisition end to end (spec, panel design, scorecard, offer, onboarding).
Experience onboarding at least two hires with a structured 30/60/90 plan.
Experience working on systems supporting thousands of concurrent users and hundreds of thousands of monthly users.
Senior-level Go experience: comfortable with concurrency, SOLID principles, and strong testing practices.
Receptive to feedback: pushes back with evidence, but visibly changes approach once feedback lands.
Objective about their own team: engages with concerns about a report's performance rather than defending by default.
Diplomatic under pressure: firm without being harsh, acknowledges the other side, and leaves conversations open.
Reliable follow-through: ensures tasks are completed without reminders and verifies status on others' work.
Comfortable operating with ambiguity: proposes the process a small, sub-20-engineer org needs.
Ownership mentality that extends beyond the squad: comfortable contributing as an IC and shaping engineering-wide process.

Skills

Go
Concurrency
SOLID principles
Testing practices
People management
Performance management
Recruitment
Hiring
Project management
Scrum ceremonies
Cross-functional collaboration
Communication
RFC writing
Technical decision presentation
B2B experience
API-as-product experience
Payments domain experience
Emerging-markets payment rails
Regulated environment experience

Location

UK
EU
Remote
London

Work Type

Remote
Hybrid

Experience Level

Senior-level
2+ years direct line management

Benefits

35 Days Off
Birthday Leave
Enhanced Parental Leave
Global Workspace access
Learning Budget ($1000 annually)
Private Medical Insurance (London)
Life Insurance (3x salary cover) (London)
Enhanced Pension (UK)
Hybrid Working (4 days/week in Canary Wharf office)
Themed snacks and Friday lunch (London)
Monthly Socials
Free Coffee

About the Company

NALA is building Payments for the Next Billion. Faster, smarter, and fairer transfers for everyone.
Since 2022, NALA has grown its business 120x, grown the team from 9 to 150+, raised $50M+ from top-tier investors, and was named to the Forbes Fintech 50 in 2025 and 2026.
NALA operates two core products: NALA (consumer app for cross-border payments) and Rafiki (B2B payments infrastructure).
The team includes alumni from Wise, Stripe, Monzo, Revolut, and CashApp.
NALA operates with urgency, deep thinking, and a customer-first approach.
This role offers ownership, impact, and the chance to change global payments.