Technical Lead (Card Product)

Burns Sheehan; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A successful fintech scale-up in London is looking for a Lead Software Engineer specializing in cards and payments. You'll be responsible for driving architectural decisions and mentoring engineers in a hybrid work environment. The role offers a competitive salary up to £130,000 with bonuses, annual stock grants, and private medical insurance.

Benefits

Bonus up to 22%

Annual stock grant

Dedicated learning budget

Private medical and dental insurance

Enhanced Paternity/Maternity cover

Qualifications

• Strong backend engineering background, experience with Python preferred.
• Experience working on card-based products. Ideally credit products.
• Strong architectural and system design skills.

Responsibilities

• Be the senior technical authority for a cross functional team focused on credit and card systems.
• Drive architectural decisions for an event-driven backend platform.
• Mentor Lead and Senior Engineers to foster a high-performance culture.

Skills

Backend engineering

Domain expertise in card products

Architectural and system design skills

Python

Ruby/Java/Clojure/Go

Job description

Lead Software Engineer - Cards | Credit | Payments

Up to £130,000 + bonus (15-22%)

️ Python (Java/Clojure/Ruby considered), Event-Driven Architecture, Serverless

London, hybrid working (2 days/week)

Leading business lending platform

I'm partnered with one of the UK's most successful fintech scale-ups.

They've recently launched a new product line which has become the company's highest-growth area and most strategically backed. It now has it's own dedicated leadership and roadmap.

They're now hiring a Lead Engineer who can bring domain expertise in areas such as card products (credit or debit), payments, buy now pay later or the credit space. This is a critical hands-on leadership role and part of a small team of 3 who will be driving the overall technical direction and architecture of one of the most commercially important product areas in the business.

What you'll be doing...

• Be the senior technical authority for one of the cross functional teams focused on credit and card systems
• Drive architectural decisions for an event-driven, serverless, high-volume, low-latency backend platform
• Mentor Lead and Senior Engineers, driving engineering excellence and fostering a high-performance culture
• Bring much-needed domain expertise in cards and credit to a high-growth area with a greenfield mindset

What they're looking for...

• Strong backend engineering background, they use Python in production but would be open to expertise in Ruby/Java/Clojure/Go
• Experience working on card-based products - ideally credit, but debit or prepaid
• Strong architectural and system design skills

What's in it for you...

• Bonus at approximately 15% (with potential to earn up to 22%)
• Annual stock grant
• Dedicated annual learning budget
• Private medical and dental insurance
• Broad range of benefits including enhanced Paternity/Maternity cover
• Hybrid working - 2 days/week in their London office (no fixed days)
• Be part of a high-ownership role with real scope to shape the success of a growing product

Lead Software Engineer - Cards | Credit | Payments

Burns Sheehan Ltd will consider applications based only on skills and ability and will not discriminate on any grounds.