TL;DR
Lead Software Engineer (Fintech): Designing and operating highly available, multi-region infrastructure services for a fast-growing platform with an accent on resilience patterns, observability, and SLO management. Focus on driving cloud-native and GitOps standards, refactoring large-scale systems, and mentoring senior engineers within an engineering-led environment.
Location: Must be based in London, UK, with 4 days onsite in Paddington
Salary: £110,000–£140,000
Company
A fast-growing UK-based fintech scale-up prioritizing reliability and technical excellence.
What you will do
- Architect and implement highly available, multi-region infrastructure services.
- Define and implement resilience patterns like failover and circuit breaking.
- Lead large-scale refactoring and reliability improvement initiatives.
- Establish best practices for incident response, observability, and SLO management.
- Drive the adoption of modern cloud-native and GitOps practices.
- Mentor senior engineers and influence engineering culture at scale.
Requirements
- Strong backend engineering proficiency in Go, Java, or .NET.
- Extensive hands-on experience designing and operating high-scale distributed systems.
- Deep expertise in cloud-native architecture (GCP or AWS).
- Advanced knowledge of Kubernetes and container orchestration.
- Proven track record of technical leadership and mentoring.
- Must be able to work 4 days per week onsite in London (Paddington).
Culture & Benefits
- Work in an engineering-led organization where technical excellence drives business success.
- Opportunity to influence architecture across a multi-country product.
- Balanced role allowing for deep technical implementation alongside leadership responsibilities.