Lead Engineer
Funding Circle8 hours ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead teams delivering large, complex, and ambiguous initiatives across team boundaries.
- Own engineering outcomes and performance improvements jointly with the Engineering Manager.
- Drive technical strategy, architecture, engineering standards, and durable, scalable, secure designs.
- Collaborate with Engineering and Product Managers to shape technical and product vision.
- Identify cross-team friction, resolve competing priorities, and communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Mentor and coach engineers while promoting effective use of AI tooling across Product Engineering.
Requirements
- Track record of owning complex, ambiguous delivery across team boundaries and driving business outcomes.
- Strong mentoring and coaching skills with a feedback-oriented approach.
- Experience with at least one major programming language such as Python, Ruby, or Clojure.
- Recognized technical authority trusted by colleagues across sub-departments.
- Ability to navigate cross-team misalignment and differing priorities.
- Proven ability to use AI tooling personally and help teams build fluency with it.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and benefits.
- Hybrid, flexible-first work arrangement with two days per week in the London office.
- Tailored benefit allowance, private medical and dental care, health assessments, and digital GP access.
- Life assurance, share schemes, and financial coaching.
- Annual learning allowance, electric car and cycle-to-work schemes, and season ticket loans.
- Award-winning parental leave policies and support for fertility treatments and family additions.
- Barista coffee and subsidized Just Eat lunches in the office.
About Funding Circle
Funding Circle builds an online lending platform that provides term loans and lines of credit to small and medium-sized businesses, using data-driven underwriting. It generates interest and fee income and also distributes finance through partners via embedded lending. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in London, the company is listed on the London Stock Exchange and primarily serves the UK market.