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About the Role

As Software Engineering Team Lead for the Core (API & UI) team, you will own the technical health of the services through which users and systems interact with RTGS. The team is responsible for APIs, user interfaces, and access services that enable participants and connected systems to interact with RTGS securely and reliably. You will stay in the code, retaining the ability to engage directly with complex implementation and production issues where required. You will decide what good looks like for your team and build the conditions for it. You’ll also invest in the engineers around you, helping them grow and building a team people want to be part of.

Responsibilities

Own the engineering quality, technical direction, and delivery outcomes of a team responsible for the services through which users and systems access RTGS capabilities.
Stay in the code, taking on complex, high-impact work alongside your team.
Lead by example in code reviews and implementation decisions, holding end-to-end accountability for the quality, resilience, and operability of the services your team builds and runs.
Own how your services behave in production, including monitoring, alerting, reliability, and operational health.
Work closely with the Solution Designer to pressure-test technical approaches and translate designs into clear, buildable components.
Define, adopt, and enforce engineering standards across the team, including testing discipline, code quality, deployment safety, incident response, and security by design.
Act as technical counterpart to the Product Owner and co-own the roadmap, making room for technical debt, efficiencies, and continuous improvement.
Line-manage your engineers, focusing on performance, development, progression, and promotion.
Build a team environment where people are supported, challenged, and growing.
Take an active role in hiring for your team, including interviewing and assessing candidates.
Track engineering health metrics to guide investment and work with peer Team Leads to share patterns and raise standards.
Participate in on-call as a senior escalation point, leading incident response and fostering a blameless culture of learning.

Requirements

A strong software engineering background, with experience building, operating, and evolving production systems of meaningful complexity.
Working knowledge of Java, React/Redux, and API-based architectures.
Experience working within delivery teams and understanding how technical decisions affect delivery pace, quality, and long-term sustainability.
A solid understanding of distributed systems, data flows, and event-driven architectures.
Experience delivering and supporting live services, including troubleshooting, debugging, incident response, and ongoing operational ownership.
Experience mentoring, supporting, or providing technical guidance to other engineers.
Proven experience as a Senior Software Engineer, Technical Lead, or in an equivalent role within a complex production environment.
Strong technical leadership and engineering judgement, with the ability to establish standards, challenge technical decisions, and navigate trade-offs.
The ability to lead across different technical disciplines.
A track record of improving engineering standards.
Experience contributing an engineering perspective to roadmap, planning, and prioritisation decisions.
Demonstrated ability or strong potential to lead, support, and develop engineers.
Calm and credible leadership during incidents or operational challenges.
Clear and direct communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Experience of, or willingness to participate in, recruiting and assessing engineers.
Experience working with Apigee or another API management platform (Desirable).
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and associated tooling (Desirable).
Experience with messaging and streaming platforms (Desirable).
Experience with Oracle-backed applications or other data-intensive, high-volume systems (Desirable).
Experience in financial services, payments, or another highly available or regulated environment (Desirable).

Skills

Java
React/Redux
API-based architectures
Distributed systems
Data flows
Event-driven architectures
Troubleshooting
Debugging
Incident response
Operational ownership
Mentoring
Technical guidance
Code reviews
Testing discipline
Code quality
Deployment safety
Incident response
Security by Design
Roadmap planning
Performance management
Engineering health metrics
Apigee
CI/CD pipelines
Jenkins
Gradle
Kafka
IBM MQ
Oracle-backed applications
Financial services
Payments

Location

Leeds
London

Work Type

Permanent
Full Time
Hybrid

Experience Level

Senior Software Engineer
Technical Lead

Salary/Compensations

London: £71,680 - £80,640
Leeds: £64,480 - £72,540

Benefits

Non-contributory, career average pension
Discretionary performance award
8% benefits allowance
26 days’ annual leave with option to buy up to 12 additional days
Private medical insurance
Income protection
Flexible start and end times
50% in-office attendance requirement
Occasional out-of-hours activity to support production releases and change testing

About the Company

We are the UK's central bank, known by our peers for our world-leading thinking on policy and strategy.
Our mission is to promote the good of the people of the UK by maintaining monetary and financial stability.
We seek to keep prices stable and people's money safe.
We know our work matters to people, to families, up and down the UK.
We are driven by curiosity and the desire to do important, challenging work.
It takes a great team to run the Bank of England.
We rely on each other to play our part.
We benefit from a collaborative culture and long-established flexible ways of working, supporting our colleagues balance their work and personal lives.
We strive to be a place where people feel they belong and have equal access to opportunities, because different perspectives helps us make the best decisions for the public.
There's much to gain from working with us - from career defining work at the heart of the UK economy, being part of a fantastic team, and a rewarding compensation package.
Join us and find a bank like no other.
Together, we can make a difference.

Equal Opportunity

The Bank values diversity, equity and inclusion.
We believe we need a workforce that reflects the society we serve.
We want all colleagues to feel valued and respected, and are working hard to build an inclusive culture which supports people from all backgrounds and communities to be at their best at work.
We celebrate all forms of diversity, including age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, race, religion, sexual orientation and socioeconomic status.
We believe that it’s by drawing on different perspectives and experiences that we’ll continue to make the best decisions for the public.
We welcome applications from individuals who work flexibly, including job shares and part time working patterns.
We've partnered with external organisations to support us in making adjustments for candidates and employees in the recruitment process where they're needed.
From 1st October 2026, we expect all our colleagues to spend a minimum of 50% of their working time in the office per month.
We're proud to be a member of the Disability Confident Scheme.