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Company DescriptionWe believe that businesses of all sizes deserve better financial and payment products and services. Traditionally, businesses of all sizes are let down by slow applications, protracted onboarding, opaque pricing, restrictive contracts and forced to use outdated solutions that no longer meet the innovative requirements of modern business. We started our journey five years ago, and have since helped tens of thousands of businesses in our home market reduce the complexity and time taken to take and make payments, manage complex fleets of payment hardware, store and save money and lead the conversation in business-to-business fintech. Having experienced high growth we have quickly made an impact in our home market with our unique ecosystem of financial services products so we’re now taking our next steps in expanding into the United Kingdom.Our company is backed by leading global VCs, and brings together seasoned, experienced payment and tech industry professionals who are aiming to redefine business banking and the way businesses get paid by their customers.If you are passionate, curious, hungry and seeking an opportunity to make your mark on Fintech in the United Kingdom, with the strength of a global team behind you - we’d love to talk to you. This is a unique opportunity to shape, direct and build better financial services for all UK businesses, whilst being part of a high growth tech company.Job DescriptionAs Engineering Lead for Backend you will be responsible for a range of backend systems such as Payment Gateway, Settlement, Transaction Fraud Monitoring, Datalake Service and the Core Banking System. You will oversee their deployment, development, and enhancements, while also being responsible for their reliability, performance, and stability in production.This hybrid role merges software engineering with a deep Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) mindset. You'll combine software, systems, and cloud engineering expertise to solve complex production challenges, drive automation, and ensure our services are both innovative and exceptionally dependable.You should have extensive experience and skills in software engineering, DevOps, project management, incident management, team management and stakeholder management.Key ResponsibilitiesOversee the end-to-end development, enhancement, and agile deployment of all UK backend systems.Collaborate with the Global Technical Committee to contribute to and adopt best practices, platform codes, and frameworks.Manage suppliers and stakeholders to deliver on business requirements through system enhancements and maintenance. Ensuring high availability in production systems is a critical responsibility of this role.Own the availability, scalability, latency, and performance of mission-critical services, managing and upholding a 99.999% SLA.Design, write, and deliver software and automation to improve system reliability and reduce manual procedures.Build robust automation for monitoring, and proactive issue detection to prevent problem recurrence.Lead the incident management process, conduct blameless post-mortems, and drive corrective actions to ensure continuous improvement.What It Takes to SucceedTo excel in this role, you should be:A people-oriented leader who is easy to work with, adaptable and flexible while maintaining high standards. Supported by global teams of engineers, QAs, SREs, and DevOps professionals.Comfortable managing a mix of direct reports and shared teamsReporting StructureYou will report toThe Global Head of Engineering for Backend Services (technical reporting line)The Managing Director of UK (operational reporting line)Skills & ExperiencesAWS Technologies (e.g. ECS, DynamoDB, Lambda, Aurora, SQS, SNS, VPC, Private Link, etc.)Multi-threading & Socket Programming: Java + Spring ApplicationsTypescript and Node.js ApplicationsArchitectures - Event Sourcing, CQRS, Polyglot Database, Traditional OLTP, OLAPDevOps - Provisioning-based Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CDQA - Practical TDD, BDDExperiences in payment domainsProven track record in developing and maintaining mission-critical, high-load production systems with 99.999% SLAProven experience in supporting rapid and agile product deployments across different environments - dev, test, stress-testing, staging/production.Motivational team managementCost controlYour attributesLoves challenging the status-quoAbility to work autonomously yet collaboratively Prepared to be bold yet consistent with your engineering principlesLogical, ethical, mature and responsibleFast learner, humble and loves to share knowledgeCalm and exercises positive level of stress in exceptional circumstances such as; production issues, timeline requirementsQualifications and experienceMinimum of a Bachelor degree in software engineering (or related)4+ years of working experience in a technical hands-on software engineering role2+ years of working experience in a technical leadership roleDemonstrable experiences in developing mission-critical systemsBonus pointsExperience in working within a high-growth environment in the financial services or fintech industryExperience in other cloud platforms (Azure, Google)Experience in other programming languagesExperience with financial regulations and compliance requirements (e.g. GDPR, PCI-DSS)What’s in it for youCompetitive salary (~£85k) plus you are rewarded with early stage equityHybrid working environmentBe part of something big from the outsetYour work environment is balanced, progressive and supportive