Engineering Lead: Product Delivery & Tech Leadership

8120 Barclaycard UK; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclaycard Payments in London is seeking an Engineering Lead to shape and deliver customer-facing products, blending hands-on technical leadership with people management to guide engineering teams and drive scalable, resilient solutions.

You will work with product and business stakeholders, champion modern tech stacks, and foster delivery practices, with a hybrid working model requiring three days in the office weekly.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading engineering teams in a production environment.
• Extensive software engineering experience with modern technology stacks.
• Experience applying agile or lean delivery practices to improve delivery.
• People leadership including coaching, development and performance management.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead collaborative, multi-year engineering assignments and define technical direction.
• Shape and deliver customer-facing products supporting business needs.
• Drive delivery practices and ensure solutions meet customer and business needs.

Skills

Leadership

Software engineering

Agile methods

Stakeholder management

Communication

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

Rust

Kotlin

Typescript

Job description

Barclaycard Payments in London is seeking an Engineering Lead to shape and deliver customer-facing products, blending hands-on technical leadership with people management to guide engineering teams and drive scalable, resilient solutions.

You will work with product and business stakeholders, champion modern tech stacks, and foster delivery practices, with a hybrid working model requiring three days in the office weekly.