Lead Software Engineer

The role

This Lead Software Engineer will lead technology delivery for Abound Spain by adapting, deploying, and operating the lending platform. You will combine hands-on software engineering, solution architecture, technical leadership, and team management to ensure the platform meets local business, operational, and regulatory requirements.

What you will do

• Leading and managing a small engineering team through coaching, mentoring, and regular feedback.
• Contributing directly to the codebase and leading engineering best practices.
• Acting as the technology owner for Spain to ensure successful implementation and evolution of the platform.
• Defining solution architectures that address Spain-specific business, operational, and regulatory requirements.
• Leading technical implementation of new capabilities for the Spanish business.
• Coordinating internal engineering teams and third-party technology providers.
• Evaluating, integrating, and managing third-party providers in the lending ecosystem.
• Working with Product, Risk, Operations, and Compliance teams.
• Supporting engineers through code reviews, pairing, and technical guidance.
• Participating in the full software development lifecycle.

Required qualifications

• Strong experience building and maintaining production systems in Python.
• Experience leading engineering teams or complex technical projects.
• A hands-on engineer who enjoys solving technical problems while providing technical leadership.
• Experience designing solution architectures for business-critical systems.
• Experience adapting and deploying shared technology platforms to meet local market, operational and regulatory requirements.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, APIs, cloud-native architectures and modern software engineering practices.
• Experience integrating third-party technology providers and external platforms.
• Experience collaborating directly with business stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Strong engineering judgement with the ability to make pragmatic technical and architectural decisions.
• Experience maintaining highly available production environments with a focus on reliability, observability and operational excellence.
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability, with a delivery-focused mindset.
• Experience working with AWS or equivalent cloud platforms.

Nice to have

• Experience within consumer lending, retail banking or regulated financial services.
• Good understanding of the end-to-end lending lifecycle, including loan origination, servicing and collections.
• Experience working with lending platforms rather than building products entirely from scratch.
• Experience localising global technology platforms for regulated markets.
• Experience integrating Open Banking providers, payment providers, credit bureaus, identity verification, fraud prevention and collections platforms.
• Experience evaluating and selecting third-party technology vendors.
• Experience supporting Business Continuity Planning (BCP), Disaster Recovery and operational resilience initiatives.
• Experience operating technology within regulated environments, understanding governance, auditability, information security and operational controls.

About the company

Abound is redefining consumer lending in the UK and beyond using advanced AI and Open Banking data. The company is a fast-growing fintech backed by over £2bn of funding from investors including Citi, GSR Ventures, and Deutsche Bank.