Engineering Director
Flagstone
What is Flagstone?
Flagstone is many things. An online savings platform, reinventing how individuals, businesses, and charities manage, protect, and grow their cash. A diverse group of people, bound by a collaborative spirit, and shared purpose. And lastly, a thriving, profitable business – where smart people do their best work.
Each definition shares a common thread: our unique culture. It’s our pride and joy. And our competitive advantage.
A feel for our culture:
To revolutionise the savings market, we need to be at our best. But high performance takes more than talent – it takes a culture of kindness, respect, and growth.
That’s why we’re building a diverse, inclusive community, where your voice is heard and valued. Where, with close support and room to develop, you can surpass even your own expectations. And be rewarded for it.
We may not change the world, but we can change the world of financial technology. And all it takes is a winning mix of drive, talent, and empathy. Our culture celebrates all three.
But enough about us. Let’s talk about you.
Does this sound like you?
You are an accomplished technology leader with experience of scaling and shaping high performing engineering organisations. You have led teams of circa 50–100 technologists in high growth environments, partnered with senior leadership to deliver business critical outcomes, and know how to balance strategic direction with operational excellence. You are passionate about nurturing a great engineering culture, developing future talent, and enabling teams to deliver secure, scalable products that generate real value for users.
What you’ll do:
- Define and deliver Flagstone’s engineering strategy, working closely with the CTO to shape our longer term technology vision.
- Lead and support the Engineering Management team, creating a culture of openness, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Partner with Product and Principal Engineers to deliver against the roadmap, ensuring teams are enabled and unblocked.
- Collaborate with senior stakeholders across the business to ensure alignment on engineering strategy, roadmap priorities, and resourcing.
- Oversee engineering organisational design, resourcing, and capability planning in line with growth and budget.
- Embed effective practices across delivery, QA, risk, and compliance, ensuring governance is integrated into how we work.
- Partner with our People Team on recruitment, succession planning, career development and mobility to build a sustainable pipeline of talent.
- Represent Flagstone within the wider technology community, supporting early careers initiatives and promoting an inclusive engineering culture.
- Have the opportunity to step into the Senior Leadership Team within your first year, contributing to the day-to-day running and strategic direction of the business.
What you’ll bring:
- Experience in leading large engineering teams (50–100+) within high growth technology organisations.
- The ability to set and deliver engineering strategy at scale, while ensuring alignment with wider business objectives.
- Knowledge of distributed systems and cloud-native design (we use Microsoft Azure, but welcome all backgrounds).
- Expertise in organisational design, scaling teams, and embedding effective delivery practices.
- A track record of working with senior stakeholders to achieve alignment and deliver outcomes.
- Inclusive people leadership, with experience in coaching, mentoring, performance management, and succession planning.
- The ability to foster collaboration across engineering, product, and wider business functions.
- A commitment to building an inclusive, high-performance engineering culture.
How we reward you:
At Flagstone, the benefits extend beyond false gifts like “fruit and snacks”. Instead, we invest in your health, wealth, and professional development. Here’s a selection of our benefits:
- Hybrid working - Spend at least 1 day a week with your team in our collaborative London office
- Competitive bonus scheme - designed to reward and recognise high performance
- Flexible benefits budget - a pot to fund meaningful benefits for you, whether it's hormone or fertility testing, cancer screening, neuro-diversity coaching or something that matters for you.
- A range of salary sacrifice options to help you make tax efficient savings on electric cars, nursery schemes, home and tech goods.
- Around the World scheme - 3 months work from anywhere scheme
- Mental wellbeing support – Access therapy and mental health sessions through Spill
- Learning and development – £1,000 personal development budget to help you grow in your role.
- Private health care - Enjoy all the benefits AXA has to offer, including reduced gym memberships and medical history disregarded
- Medical cash plan - To help you with the costs of dental and optical expenses
- Life insurance and Income Protection- four times your annual salary for peace of mind
- Matched pension contributions up to 5%
- 25 days holiday - plus bank holidays, well-being days and volunteering days
- Enhanced Parental Leave – enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay.
All are welcome.
At Flagstone, we’re assembling a diverse team that defies our industry’s norms. Think this role could suit you? We encourage you to apply, no matter your background.
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