Engineering Lead

Purpose & Scope of role

We are looking for an Engineering Lead to join our product team driving innovation in our businesscritical engineering projects at the forefront of fintech banking.

In this role youll have the chance to make your mark right away as we undergo pivotal impactful work. You will be leading on new and exciting projects as we design and develop our new Core Banking platform that is going to shift the way we operate as a bank.

As you manage and coach your team you should still be close to the code contributing to writing POCs and lending your technical expertise to lay out skeletons for APIs automated tests and more.

Collaborating amongst a diverse range of live products across the bank built upon differing technical stacks; youll need willingness to work autonomously ability to juggle multiple responsibilities and the initiative to prioritise effectively.

Key Role Responsibilities

Providing technical direction and line management for a team of engineers.

Supporting your teams performance and development.

Advising on the best technical approaches considering both time to implement and long term implications

Assessing technical bottle necks and complex software issues; developing practical efficient and permanent technical solutions.

Maintaining product quality by ensuring engineering processes and standards are followed

Contributing to the design and development of new products and features

Assisting in task planning estimation scheduling and staffing ensuring timely delivery of projects.

Understanding business requirements during agile ceremonies including backlog refinement sessions.

Participating in the recruitment process for Software Engineers and Senior Software Engineers.

Documenting details of system amendments/enhancements in both code comments and online documentation system

Providing insights and reports to the Head of Engineering

Performing code reviews and attending technical discussions on assigned projects

Working to establish a culture of continuous improvement in the team by consistent application of lessons learned.

Skills & Experience

.NET: You will use .NET and C# to work hands on developing the back end of our applications including our new core banking platform.

Microservices: You will use microservice technology to build our systems using modern design to drive scalability and efficiency.

Management Skills: You will be building and leading a small team of engineers including monitoring and reviewing performance supporting their development and delegating work.

Stakeholder Management: As a Lead you will often be working closely with other teams or business areas to gather and refine requirements before relaying and delegating them to your team strong stakeholder management is essential.

Experience of Distributed Systems: Our new core banking platform is going to be built using composable banking and distributed architecture. Experience of working in this environment would be beneficial as you lead this exciting project.

Qualifications :

Education/Professional Qualifications
Shawbrook is committed to providing opportunities to all candidates and understand that not all candidates may possess a qualification or education aligned to the role. We will assess each candidate on their individual experience and skills and not solely on level of education.
Key attributes
Strong interpersonal skills stakeholder management skills and ability to communicate with all levels from peers through to managers. Growth mindset.

Additional Information :

Your Wellbeing We take your health and wellbeing very seriously by providing a range of benefits to give you and your family peace of mind. These include:

• Market leading family friendly policies such as access to our Maternity Adoption and Paternity policies from Day 1 of your employment
• Free access to Headspace a mindfulness & meditation digital health app
• Free access to Peppy digital health app that offers personalised support through fertility treatment becoming a parent or menopause
• EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) Offering you support on a wide range of subjects including financial concerns mental wellbeing and more general queries around family work housing and health
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discounts on gym membership
• Contributory pension scheme & death in service

Your Lifestyle Its important you strike the right balance between your work and personal life. We provide benefits to support you when at work and when youre enjoying your leisure time.

• Minimum of 27 days holiday per year
• Option to buy or sell holiday days through our flexiholiday scheme
• Discounts on gym membership nationwide
• Access to discounts on a range of high street and online brands
• Community support and charitable giving

Your Contribution Were focused on rewarding those that go the extra mile in helping us achieve our goals.

• Participation in our annual discretionary bonus scheme designed to reward your contribution to our success
• Proudly Shawbrook recognition scheme focused on recognising our role models and thanking our colleagues for a job well done

Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Fulltime