Engineering Lead

Worldline Global; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading payments technology company is seeking an Engineering Lead in Nottingham (Hybrid) to drive technical excellence and manage cross-functional teams. The ideal candidate should have experience in Agile environments, proficiency in modern C#.NET, and strong leadership skills. This role involves overseeing technical outputs and fostering innovation in a collaborative atmosphere. Competitive benefits and a strong career development focus are offered.

Benefits

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Private medical cover

Flexible benefits through salary sacrifice

Pension matching contributions up to 10%

Qualifications

• Experience leading and motivating teams delivering product roadmaps.
• Committed to engineering excellence and DevOps practices.
• Background in building scalable full-stack applications.

Responsibilities

• Oversee technical outputs and align with business objectives.
• Participate in code reviews with constructive feedback.
• Track technical debt and plan upgrades to avoid obsolescence.

Skills

Leading cross-functional teams

Agile environment experience

Clean software design

Proficient in C#.NET

Cloud platforms (AWS or GCP)

Problem-solving skills

Relationship-building skills

Job description

Engineering Lead

Nottingham UK (Hybrid)

This is Worldline

We are the innovators at the heart of the payments technology industry shaping how the world pays and gets paid. The solutions our people build today power the growth of millions of businesses tomorrow. From your local coffee shop to unicorns and international banks. From San Francisco to Auckland. We are in every corner of the world in every part of commerce. And just as we help our customers accelerate their business we are committed to helping our people accelerate their careers. Together we shape the evolution.

The Opportunity

We are looking for an experienced Engineering Lead within our Transport Retail UK division to drive technical excellence foster innovation and guide our distributed teams in aligning technical decisions with business objectives. The role involves overseeing the technical outputs of several teams maintaining our shared back‑office systems; with some hands‑on engineering leading by example.

The position is based in our Head Office and reports to the Head of Enterprise Architecture & DevOps.

Day‑to‑Day Responsibilities

• Check and challenge the technical implementations of the teams; ensuring reliability through code quality maintainability and observability across development and testing
• Own our application architecture and API standards ensuring they are adhered to across all projects; and promote our ways of working within the wider business unit
• Align the technical roadmap with business objectives and long‑term product vision
• Lead engineering teams foster collaboration and guide the teams to achieve collective goals; supporting them with complex challenges
• Participate in code reviews offering constructive feedback and encourage open discussion of different viewpoints
• Lead the technical decision‑making and challenge difficult choices to maintain achievable delivery goals
• Track technical debt and plan upgrades to avoid obsolescence
• Collaborate with your leadership colleagues in Programme Management and Solution Architecture to optimise ways of working; advising on technical resource allocation risk and task prioritisation to ensure successful releases
• Line manage our Development Leads to build an inclusive collaborative and growth‑oriented teams; conduct regular performance conversations
• Maintain a robust DevOps approach; regularly evaluate and enhance our engineering processes, tools and ways of working to increase efficiency and cadence
• Represent Transport Retail UK in Worldline’s broader technical strategy and actively contribute to engineering community initiatives
• Engage with Worldline security and compliance teams to ensure systems meet security and data protection standards.

Who Are We Looking For

We look for big thinkers. People who can drive positive change step up and show whats next people with passion can‑do attitude and a hunger to learn and practice this means :

• Proven experience leading and motivating cross‑functional teams delivering product roadmaps in an Agile environment on time and within budget
• Committed to clean software design and engineering excellence; a proponent of DevOps practices such as CI / CD and Infrastructure as Code
• Solid background in building scalable full‑stack applications using modern C#.NET
• Proficiency with cloud platforms and cloud‑native architecture patterns; ideally certified in AWS or GCP
• Confident people management skills and aspires to increase the capability of others
• Capable of innovative problem‑solving which serves customers and their end‑users
• Strong relationship‑building skills capable of working with technical and non‑technical stakeholders in order to achieve business objectives.

Perks & Benefits

• Be part of a company guided by a strong purpose to do good and recognised as top 1 % of the most sustainable companies in all sectors worldwide.
• Work with inspiring colleagues and be empowered to learn grow and accelerate your career.
• Have 25 days holiday bank holidays
• Have employee private medical cover access to a virtual GP service
• Access to discounts and cashback on shopping
• Purchase a range of flexible benefits through salary sacrifice
• Have an Income protection @ 67 % of base salary for 5 years subject to Ts & Cs
• Have Life assurance 1 × salary if not in a pension scheme 4 × salary if joins the pension scheme
• Have Pension the company will match contributions up to 10 %

Shape the evolution

We are on an exciting journey towards the next frontiers of payments technology and we look for big thinkers people with passion can‑do attitude and a hunger to learn and grow. Here you’ll work with ambitious colleagues from around the world take on unique challenges as a team and make a real impact on the society. With an empowering culture strong technology and extensive training opportunities we help you accelerate your career - wherever you decide to go. Join our global team of 18000 innovators and shape a tomorrow that is yours to own.

Learn more about life at Worldline at

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race religion colour national origin sex (including pregnancy childbirth or related medical conditions) sexual orientation gender identity gender expression age status as an individual with a disability or any applicable legally protected characteristics.

Key Skills

Administrative Skills, Facilities Management, Biotechnology, Creative Production, Design And Estimation, Architecture

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1