Lead Software Engineer in Coventry

About Moneycorp

Moneycorp is a leading cross-border payments specialist, helping businesses and individuals move money seamlessly across the world. Established in London in 1979, we’ve grown into a global financial services company with operations in the UK, Europe, the US, and Brazil. We specialise in supporting Financial Institutions (FIs), SMEs, and High Net Worth Individuals (HNWIs) with innovative and secure financial solutions.

Our financial strength underpins our ambition. In 2023, Moneycorp reported record earnings with a revenue of £223.5 million and an EBITDA of £78 million, achieving a trading volume of £71 billion. This success allows us to reinvest in product innovation while maintaining the highest standards of compliance, risk management, and regulatory excellence.

At Moneycorp, we believe in excellence, accountability, and entrepreneurial thinking, ensuring we continuously evolve to meet the needs of our customers and the wider financial ecosystem.

Technology at Moneycorp

We’re on a journey to transform how we build and deliver technology—moving from a traditional project-based approach to a product-led, DevOps-empowered mindset. We’re embracing automation, event-driven architecture, and AI to build the financial ecosystem of the future.

We’re evolving towards:

• A Cloud-Native, DevOps-First Culture – Moving towards a fully cloud-hosted, automated platform built with Kubernetes, Kafka, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• A Real-Time Financial Ecosystem – Shifting from data at rest to data in motion, embracing event-driven architecture to power the real-time economy.
• AI & Data-Driven Decision Making – Establishing AI Incubator & Labs teams to explore how AI can enhance payments, fraud detection, and customer experiences.
• The Greenfield US Bank Initiative – Building a new event-streamed bank from the ground up, leveraging the latest in bank-grade platform infrastructure.

This is an ongoing transformation, and we’re looking for individuals who want to shape and contribute to this journey. People who thrive here are comfortable with change, practical in their approach, and adapt quickly. They’re strong communicators, skilled technologists, and unafraid to pivot when needed.

Your Next Challenge

Moneycorp is modernising its payments platform, and this role is a key part of that journey. The Payment Evolution Project is focused on containerising and modernising existing applications for Azure deployment. This is a technical migration, not a major functionality rewrite—our goal is to transition to a more scalable, cloud-native architecture while maintaining stability.

We're seeking a dynamic engineering leader to spearhead the delivery of cutting-edge platform features across multiple work streams. Your role will be pivotal in shaping the future of financial technology.

In this role, you’ll design, develop, and deliver high-quality, scalable, and maintainable software solutions using C#, .NET technologies, and cloud-native architectures on Azure. You’ll be accountable for implementing complex business logic and backend services, ensuring code quality through robust testing and peer reviews, and contributing to the full software development lifecycle in an Agile environment.

This role also plays a key part in database design, DevOps integration for seamless CI/CD processes, and cross-functional collaboration with QA, DevOps, and architecture teams. You’ll contribute to technical onboarding, participate in Agile ceremonies, and support architectural decisions aligned with the organization’s enterprise strategy, ensuring the technical solution aligns to the product vision.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Innovative Delivery Leadership: Lead the charge on delivering platform features by engaging effectively with product owners, BAs, designers, engineers, and solution architecture SMEs.
• Agile Excellence: Own the delivery of features within work streams, supporting agile teams, helping manage product backlogs, and aligning with the Programme Manager. Proactively manage and elevate risks and issues.
• Technical Leadership: Provide direct technical leadership and conduct mentoring and coaching activities to foster growth and excellence.
• Architectural Vision: Offer technical and product guidance to Scrum teams, frequently coordinating on solution design and architecture. Collaborate with SMEs to ensure adherence to engineering principles and quality standards.
• Future-Forward Thinking: Lead technical spikes into future work streams, facilitating just-in-time technical elaboration. Drive delivery planning and technical task review sessions.
• Vision Alignment: Ensure the technical solution aligns with the product vision, championing autonomy and ownership within Scrum teams.

We’re looking for someone with:

• Knowledge and Experience: Capability to manage multiple product backlogs, teams and delivery plans. Leadership experience with exceptional organisational and risk management skills. Experience of working and leading within a distributed team. Hands-on technical background with proven experience implementing high quality software solutions. Broad technical experience that spans multiple technical stacks and environments. Practical experience of applying good design patterns and principles. Experience mentoring in a development setting. Strong communication and negotiating skills. Knowledge of banking/payment domain and systems.
• Technical Skills: Latest .NET versions, as well as legacy experience with .NET Framework. The primary language is C#, with some applications in F#. Containerisation, Azure (AppService, Functions, ASB, EventHubs, AppInsights, ADO, ARO, Kafka), Restful/Web APIs, Microservices Architecture. Familiarity with unit testing, Mocking frameworks, integration tests and the full testing pyramid. Entity framework, Dapper, ADO.NET, T-SQL and Azure Table Storage. REST, HTTP2, HTML5, JavaScript libs (e.g. React/Redux), Typescript, git. Functional and OO paradigms. Long running workflow management. Lean principles, continuous integration, DevOps cultures and techniques, cloud provisioning, IAC, CI/CD pipelines.

Interested? If the role sounds like you, we invite you to upload a copy of your CV and can do this by clicking on the Apply Now button.

Fostering a culture of belonging and inclusivity

We’re committed to creating a workplace where every individual feels valued, respected, and included. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we actively cultivate an inclusive culture where diversity thrives, and we empower our colleagues to drive meaningful change within our organisation through initiatives like our DE&I focus groups and value champion network.

Like many of our peers, we recognise that fostering inclusivity is an ongoing journey, and we remain steadfast in our commitment to progress. By measuring our efforts through regular assessments and listening to the feedback of our employees, we strive to ensure that our initiatives are impactful and responsive to the evolving needs of our workforce.

Together, we want to build a workplace where everyone can bring their authentic selves to work, as we believe this is the foundation of innovation, creativity, and collective success.

Connect with us

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