About the Role
As an Engineering Team Lead, you will build and lead a high-performing, healthy engineering team. You will own the delivery of your team's quarterly objectives, the growth of your direct reports, and the day-to-day culture that allows great work to happen. You will stay hands-on, with your impact coming through your people and what the team delivers. You will build a team that stays successful without your constant intervention.
Responsibilities
- Provide mentorship, constructive feedback, and foster a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement
- Address underperformance decisively and advocate for your reports in calibration and promotion
- Motivate the team, remove blockers, and track performance to ensure accountability
- Work closely with Product, QA, and Technical Leaders to align on strategy and execution
- Ensure clear, open communication in remote, hybrid, and in-person settings
- Identify and mitigate risks, addressing challenges proactively
- Own the holistic health of your team across people, process, and quality
- Stay hands-on in software development, guiding engineers at a technical level
- Advocate for the customer, balancing customer, team, and business needs in your decisions
Requirements
- A track record of leading and delivering complex projects
- Experience leading or mentoring engineers, and the appetite to own the full management remit, from hiring and development through to the harder people conversations
- Extensive commercial experience with C#/.Net
- Strong technical background in modern software development practices and cloud-based scalable architecture
- A customer-focused, commercially aware and data-informed approach to your decision making
- Ability to manage cross-team dependencies, collaborating effectively with Product, QA, and other stakeholders
Skills
- C#/.Net
- Modern software development practices
- Cloud-based scalable architecture
Location
- London (Moorgate)
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Lead
- Management
Benefits
- Private Healthcare including dental and opticians services through Vitality
- Worldwide travel insurance through Vitality
- Anniversary Rewards (£250, £500, £750, 4-week fully paid sabbatical)
- Salary Sacrifice Pension Scheme up to 7% match
- 28 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
- Annual Learning and Wellbeing Budget
- Enhanced Parental Leave
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Season Ticket Loan
- 6 free therapy sessions per year
- Dog Friendly Offices
- Free drinks and snacks in our offices
About the Company
- Capital on Tap started because small businesses were underserved by big banks.
- Today, Capital on Tap is a financial platform offering a best-in-class business credit card, SME-focused spend management platform, a savings product, and a growing suite of tools and financial products.
- The company has over 1,000 employees, £20bn in annual card spend, 200,000+ customers, and 17,000+ Trustpilot reviews averaging 4.7 stars.
- Capital on Tap is profitable and growing.
Equal Opportunity
- We welcome, consider and encourage applications from anyone who shares our commitment to inclusivity.
- Join us in creating a space where authenticity thrives, and everyone can do their best work.
