Machine Learning Lead Engineer

YouLend Limited; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock Options

Private Medical insurance via Vitality

Dental Insurance with BUPA

EAP with Health Assured

Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave

Modern and sophisticated office space

Free Gym in office building in Holborn

Subsidised Lunch via Feedr

Deliveroo Allowance if working late in

Monthly in office Masseuse

Team and Company Socials

Football Power League / Paddle andYoga

Job summary

YouLend Limited is seeking a Machine Learning Lead Engineer to act as a hands-on player-coach, building, shipping, and improving ML systems while growing into a leadership role.

You will mentor a small ML team, help shape the roadmap and hiring, and collaborate with DS, Risk, Product, and Engineering to deploy and monitor models throughout their lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Must have production ML experience and hands-on coding
• Strong Python software engineering skills and API design
• Solid background in ML engineering, not pure research
• Experience deploying and running ML models in production
• Familiarity with MLOps stack: CI/CD, monitoring, pipelines

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain production-grade ML systems and pipelines
• Mentor a small team of ML engineers (2-3 initially)
• Improve deployment, monitoring, and model lifecycle management
• Collaborate with DS, Risk, Product, and Engineering
• Help shape roadmap and hiring

Skills

ML Engineer background

Production ML deployment

Python software engineering

MLOps

Cloud AWS/GCP/Azure

Team mentoring

Leadership potential

Fintech domain exposure

Tools

MLflow

Airflow

Evidently

DVC

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

We're looking for a Machine Learning Lead Engineer who wants to operate as a player-coach - someone still very hands-on, but excited to grow into a proper management role over time. This is not a pure manager role from day one. You'll be building, shipping, and improving ML systems while gradually taking on more team leadership responsibilities.

Key Responsibilities

What you'll do:

• Build and maintain production-grade ML systems and pipelines
• Mentor a small team of ML engineers (2-3 people initially)
• Improve deployment, monitoring, and model lifecycle management
• Collaborate with DS, Risk, Product, and Engineering
• Help shape roadmap and hiring

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

• Strong background as an ML Engineer (not purely DS/research)
• Experience deploying and running ML models in production
• Solid software engineering skills (Python, APIs, systems)
• Good understanding of MLOps stack (CI/CD, monitoring, pipelines)
• Familiarity with tools like MLflow, Airflow, Evidently, DVC, Docker, Kubernetes.
• Cloud experience (AWS/GCP/Azure)
• Some mentoring/leadership experience + desire to grow into management
• Nice to have:
• Experience scaling ML platforms or teams
• Fintech / lending / risk domain exposure

We offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes:

• Stock Options
• Private Medical insurance via Vitality and Dental Insurance with BUPA
• EAP with Health Assured
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave
• Modern and sophisticated office space in Central London
• Free Gym in office building in Holborn
• Subsidised Lunch via Feedr
• Deliveroo Allowance if working late in office
• Monthly in office Masseuse
• Team and Company Socials
• Football Power League / Paddle and Yoga Club