Lead Engineer

Company: Peter Shawyer Associates Ltd
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Location: London
Job Description:

Job Description

Engineering Lead

London office – fully remote available from anywhere in the UK

£80-100,000

This leading and well-established fintech offers a lending marketplace and data products which together lead the way in the digital transformation of credit risk assessment for businesses.

As part of their growth plans, they now need to hire an Engineering Lead

Responsibilities:

• The role is expected to have an average of 50% coding time and 50% lead/management time

• Lead and line manage a team of 4-10 engineers across backend, frontend and test disciplines

• Collaborate closely with Product Managers and Engineers to optimise execution

• Maintain your team's short and long-term technology strategy while aligning with FXE's broad strategic mission

• Provide continuous feedback to all engineers and manage their career development through performance reviews

• Be accountable for shipping high-quality, stable, scalable, and secure code

• Help with recruiting efforts for hiring engineers to expand our teams

• Using your judgement to get involved with coding solutions where your skills are best utilised.

The right candidate will have:

• Experience leading, managing, coaching, mentoring and scaling high performing tech teams

• Experience working with stakeholders across a range of technical and non-technical disciplines, up to C-level

• Significant experience across the stack with Java and a cloud platform such as AWS, alongside any experience of Postgres and MongoDB; Kotlin, Javascript, JVM.

• Knowledge of development practices like TDD, CI, CD and where and how it's appropriate to apply each

What’s in it for you?

• Working with a highly experienced leadership team

• The chance to work with preeminent FS sector clients

• The chance to make an impact in delivering change in how the sector operates

• The chance to work on unique data assets and drive success through advanced analytics

• Generous pay and benefits, including an equity option scheme

Posted: April 21st, 2025