Technical Lead, AI-Driven FinTech Platform

Fundingcircle; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work policy

Private medical and dental

Annual learning allowance

Barista coffee and subsidised lunches

Parental leave benefits

Job summary

Funding Circle in London is seeking an experienced Lead Engineer to join the CRI Engineering team within the MPX group. You will provide technical authority and hands-on delivery for critical collections, recoveries, and investor-related systems built with Ruby, Clojure, and Python.

You will lead teams to deliver large initiatives, shape engineering standards, and drive end-to-end outcomes while collaborating with product and business partners in a hybrid London role.

Qualifications

• Technical leader with track record of owning complex, ambiguous delivery across team boundaries.
• Strong mentoring and coaching abilities with feedback culture.
• Strong instincts for spotting cross-team friction and resolving misalignment.
• Experience in at least one major programming language (e.g. Python, Ruby, Clojure).
• Recognised technical authority within domain with peers seeking adice and guidance.
• Proven ability to leverage AI tooling to raise the bar in building and shipping.

Responsibilities

• Lead your team to deliver large, complex initiatives and drive outcomes.
• Champion engineering-led improvements and shape engineering-wide standards including AI usage.
• Solve technical problems and act as a technical authority across Product Engineering.
• Drive technical strategy aligned with commercial outcomes and product needs.
• Collaborate with Engineering Manager and Product Manager to set technical/product vision.
• Drive architectural decisions for durability, scalability and security.

Skills

Technical leadership

Mentoring

Cross-team collaboration

Python

Ruby

Clojure

AI tooling

Stakeholder management

System design

Tools

Ruby

Clojure

Python

Job description

Funding Circle in London is seeking an experienced Lead Engineer to join the CRI Engineering team within the MPX group. You will provide technical authority and hands-on delivery for critical collections, recoveries, and investor-related systems built with Ruby, Clojure, and Python.

You will lead teams to deliver large initiatives, shape engineering standards, and drive end-to-end outcomes while collaborating with product and business partners in a hybrid London role.