Engineering Lead - Payments | London (Hybrid)
Lead the Future of Payments Technology
We're looking for an experienced Engineering Lead to join a rapidly evolving payments business that processes billions of pounds in transactions every year across the UK. As the organisation continues its journey towards becoming a standalone fintech, you'll play a key role in shaping innovative products, leading talented engineering teams, and delivering technology solutions that make a real impact.
This is an opportunity to combine hands-on technical leadership with people management, driving engineering excellence while helping teams build scalable, secure, and customer-focused products.
What You'll Be Doing
As an Engineering Lead, you'll take ownership of a product delivery team responsible for developing, deploying, and supporting technology solutions from concept through to production.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading the design, development, and continuous enhancement of high-quality software solutions.
- Ensuring applications are scalable, reliable, maintainable, and performance-driven.
- Collaborating closely with Product Managers, Engineers, Designers, and business stakeholders to define requirements and deliver successful outcomes.
- Coaching, mentoring, and developing engineers to support their growth and performance.
- Driving best practices in software engineering, code quality, testing, and secure development.
- Conducting code reviews and promoting knowledge sharing across teams.
- Supporting agile delivery practices and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
- Influencing technical direction and contributing to architectural decisions.
- Championing modern engineering standards, operational excellence, and innovation.
What We're Looking For
Essential Experience
- Proven track record of leading engineering teams in a production environment.
- Strong software engineering background with experience across modern technology stacks.
- Experience delivering complex technology solutions using Agile or Lean methodologies.
- Demonstrated people leadership skills, including coaching, mentoring, and performance management.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities, capable of engaging both technical and non-technical audiences.
Desirable Skills
- Experience working in payments, fintech, or other technology-driven organisations.
- Understanding of AI, machine learning, or emerging technologies.
- Hands-on experience with technologies such as Rust, Kotlin, or TypeScript.
- Knowledge of cloud-native architectures, Kubernetes, DevOps practices, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience designing or working with event-driven systems and messaging platforms.
Why Join?
You'll be joining a forward-thinking payments organisation at a pivotal stage of growth and transformation. This role offers the opportunity to influence technology strategy, lead high-performing teams, and help build the next generation of payment solutions used by businesses across the UK.
Location & Working Pattern
- Location: London
- Working Model: Hybrid (3 days per week in the office)
If you're passionate about engineering leadership, modern technology, and building products that operate at scale, we'd love to hear from you.
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