Engineering Lead — Fintech Product Delivery

Barclays; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays is seeking an Engineering Lead to shape and deliver customer-facing products within Barclays' payments business. You will combine hands-on technical work with people leadership to guide engineering teams, influence technical direction and deliver scalable, resilient solutions.

The role is based in London with a hybrid working model requiring three days in the office weekly and potential on-call duties.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading engineering teams and delivering technology solutions in a production environment.
• Extensive software engineering experience with broad understanding of modern tech stacks.
• Experience applying agile or lean delivery practices for continuous improvement.
• People leadership experience including coaching, development and performance management.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management across technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools. Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
• Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
• Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
• Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contribute to the organization’s technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
• Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
• Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Software delivery

Agile / Lean

People leadership

Communication

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Rust

Kotlin

Typescript

Cloud-native platforms

Event-driven architecture

Job description

Barclays is seeking an Engineering Lead to shape and deliver customer-facing products within Barclays' payments business. You will combine hands-on technical work with people leadership to guide engineering teams, influence technical direction and deliver scalable, resilient solutions.

The role is based in London with a hybrid working model requiring three days in the office weekly and potential on-call duties.