AI-Driven Payments Platform Tech Lead – Hybrid

Murmuration; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company pension scheme

30 days holiday

Hybrid working from Manchester office

Job summary

Murmuration is seeking a hands-on Tech Lead to build and scale the payments platform in an early-stage team. You will lead design, coding and mentoring, acting as the primary technical escalation and shaping the product architecture with AI-enabled tooling.

You’ll work from our Manchester office in a hybrid setup, report to the CTO, and have a real say in technology choices while delivering secure, compliant, high-quality code for credit unions.

Qualifications

• Experience building asynchronous event driven systems.
• Strong experience mentoring small engineering teams.
• Proficiency in Java, Kotlin or Scala.
• Experience with databases (Postgres, MySQL, DynamoDB, CosmosDB).
• Fluency with AI coding tools and secure coding practices.
• Interest in fintech, payments, or financial inclusion.

Responsibilities

• Designing, building (with AI), and shipping features across the whole payments platform.
• Mentoring the payments platform engineering team.
• Enforcing quality standards in the delivered builds.
• Working closely with other disciplines to meet compliance standards and scheme provider requirements.
• Using AI coding tools to work quickly while maintaining quality, testing, and security.
• Working with platform engineers to design/build high performing CI/CD pipelines with fast feedback.
• Influencing architecture and technical decisions as part of a small senior team.
• Taking features from design through implementation, testing, deployment and support.
• Writing automated tests and reviewing others' code; helping set engineering standards.

Skills

Event-driven

Mentoring

Java

Kotlin

Scala

Databases

Third-party APIs

AI coding tools

Testing & CI/CD

Security practices

Ownership mindset

Fintech interest

Job description

Murmuration is seeking a hands-on Tech Lead to build and scale the payments platform in an early-stage team. You will lead design, coding and mentoring, acting as the primary technical escalation and shaping the product architecture with AI-enabled tooling.

You’ll work from our Manchester office in a hybrid setup, report to the CTO, and have a real say in technology choices while delivering secure, compliant, high-quality code for credit unions.