Engineering Lead

Description

The team builds, delivers and runs customer-facing payments products from start to finish.

You will lead a product delivery team and work with engineering, product and business stakeholders to deliver it.

The business processes billions of pounds of payments each year for UK businesses.

The business is becoming an independent fintech after a strategic partnership with a global asset manager, with a focus on new ideas, expansion and better results for customers.

Responsibilities

• Write and ship high-quality software using current languages, frameworks and tools, keeping code scalable, maintainable and fast.
• Work with product managers, designers and engineers to define requirements, choose solution approaches and make sure the pieces fit business goals.
• Review peers' code and share knowledge to raise code quality across the team.
• Track technology trends and take part in internal technology groups to build technical skill across the company.
• Apply secure coding habits to reduce vulnerabilities and protect sensitive data.
• Write unit tests that show sound design, clarity and reliability.
• Help set strategy, propose changes, plan resources and budgets, maintain policies and processes, and escalate policy breaches.
• If you manage people, define roles, plan the department's future needs, coach staff on performance and contribute to pay decisions. Lead by listening, energising others, aligning across the enterprise and developing people.
• If you work as an individual contributor, act as the subject matter expert, guide technical direction, lead multi-year work, bring in other specialisms, and coach less experienced engineers on long-term profit, risk and strategy.
• Advise senior and functional leaders on impact and alignment, and assess and mitigate risk within the control and governance framework.
• Take ownership of risk and controls in your team's work.
• Understand how the organisation operates and keep up with business activity and strategy.
• Build trusted partnerships with internal and external stakeholders, using influence and negotiation to reach business goals.
• Compare and select complex options through in-depth analysis, and use research to solve problems.

Requirements

• Proven experience leading engineering teams and delivering technology solutions in production.
• Extensive software engineering experience and a broad understanding of modern technology stacks.
• Experience applying agile or lean delivery to drive continuous improvement.
• People leadership experience, including coaching, development and performance management.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage technical and non-technical audiences.
• Additional skills of value: experience in payments, fintech or another technology-led environment.
• Additional skills of value: knowledge of AI, machine learning or emerging technology trends.
• Additional skills of value: experience with Rust, Kotlin, Typescript and cloud-native platforms.
• Additional skills of value: knowledge of Kubernetes, DevOps practices and CI/CD methodologies.
• Additional skills of value: experience with event-driven architecture and messaging technologies.

Conditions

The role is based in London.

Hybrid working, with office attendance expected 3 days per week.

You may be required to join an on-call rota.

You may be assessed on risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, and job-specific technical skills.