Lead Engineer

London, Remote. Posted a month ago

The role

A Lead Engineer will lead teams to deliver large, complex initiatives within the Collections, Recoveries and Investor engineering team. You will drive technical strategy, architectural decisions, and engineering-led improvements across Product Engineering.

What you will do

Lead teams to deliver large, complex, ambiguous initiatives
Jointly own engineering performance metrics with the Engineering Manager
Champion engineering-led improvements across Product Engineering
Shape engineering-wide standards including AI leverage
Solve technical problems and act as a technical authority
Role-model effective use of AI tooling
Drive technical strategy correlating with commercial outcomes
Collaborate with Engineering and Product Managers to set technical and product vision
Drive architectural decisions for durability, scalability, and security
Communicate with stakeholders at all levels

Required qualifications

Technical leader with a track record of owning complex, ambiguous delivery across team boundaries
Passion for mentoring and coaching
Ability to spot cross-team friction or misalignment and navigate differing priorities
Experience in at least one major Programming language (e.g. Python, Ruby, Clojure)
Recognised technical authority in your domain
Proven ability to leverage AI tooling

Benefits

Benefit allowance to tailor to life and family
Private medical and dental
Health assessments
Access to a digital GP
Life assurance
Share schemes
Financial coaching
Dedicated annual learning allowance
Electric car scheme
Cycle-to-work scheme
Season ticket loans
Parental leave policies

About the company

Funding Circle is a fintech company that uses data to provide funding to UK small businesses. It has the energy of a start-up with the stability of a public company.