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About the Role
We are looking for an experienced Lead Engineer to join our Collections, Recoveries and Investor (CRI) Engineering team, part of the Multi Product Experience (MPX) group within Core Services Engineering. CRI spans two domains - Collections, Recoveries & Litigation (CRL) and Investor Management. Our systems sit directly in the path of every loan we fund and every investor relationship we hold, so reliability isn't optional. The stack is a mix of Ruby, Clojure and Python.
Responsibilities
- Lead your team(s) to deliver large, complex, ambiguous initiatives, brokering solution ideation across team boundaries and holding your team accountable for outcomes.
- Jointly own your team's engineering performance metrics with your Engineering Manager, driving a culture of continuous improvement against them.
- Champion engineering-led improvements across Product Engineering, proactively spotting gaps and shaping engineering-wide standards, including how to most effectively leverage AI.
- Solve technical problems within your area of focus, acting as a recognised technical authority across Product Engineering and role-modelling effective use of AI tooling.
- Drive technical strategy that correlates with commercial outcomes, proactively identifying how your area accounts for end-to-end customer needs and making trade-offs visible to product partners.
- Collaborate with your Engineering Manager and Product Manager to set the technical and product vision for your team and domain, ensuring alignment with broader Technology and business strategy.
- Drive architectural decisions affecting your team(s) and domain, ensuring designs are durable, scalable, and secure, while referring global decisions to the appropriate forums and owning the outcomes.
- Communicate expertly with stakeholders at all levels (including non-technical audiences) and adapt your stakeholder-management style to the situation, navigating contentious conversations when they arise.
Requirements
- A technical leader with a track record of owning complex, ambiguous delivery across team boundaries, driving outcomes.
- A genuine passion for mentoring and coaching, with feedback (both giving and receiving it) embedded in how you work.
- Strong instincts for spotting cross-team friction or misalignment early, and the skill to navigate differing priorities to resolve it.
- Recognised technical authority in your domain, with Circlers across sub-departments seeking out your advice and trusting your judgement.
- Proven ability to leverage AI tooling to raise the bar on how your team builds and ships, using it yourself and helping others build genuine fluency.
Skills
- Python
- Ruby
- Clojure
- AI tooling
Location
- London
Work Type
- Hybrid
- 2 days in the office
Experience Level
- Experienced
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive Salary
Benefits
- Benefit allowance tailored to individual needs
- 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
- Award-winning parental leave policies
- Support for fertility treatments
- Support for new additions to the family
- Barista coffee
- Subsidised Just Eat lunches
About the Company
- We’re on a mission to back the UK’s small businesses like no one else.
- Small businesses are the backbone of the economy, and we’re here to help them win.
- We’ve built a platform that uses clever data to get them the funding they need in minutes, not weeks.
- At Funding Circle, we have the restless energy of a fintech start-up with the stability of a public company.
- It’s a unique mix that gives Circlers the autonomy to take ownership and the scale to make an impact that truly counts.
- We’re a high-performing team that chooses to lift each other up.
- We challenge, we champion, and we have each other’s backs - because we know that when we stand together, we move faster and build better.
- The impact is real: Last year alone, the businesses on our platform generated £7.2bn for the UK economy.
- Come and join a mission that matters!