Lead Software Engineer (Fintech)

TL;DR

Lead Software Engineer (Backend/Fintech): Developing and delivering innovative payment solutions and services for customers and business with an accent on low-latency, resilient, and secure payment processing. Focus on shaping architecture across business-critical services and driving DevOps maturity via CI/CD and automation.

Location: Hybrid (London). Must spend at least two days per week (or 40% of time) at an office site

Salary: £84,624 - £105,780

Company

A leading UK banking group transforming the future of finance through technological innovation.

What you will do

• Provide technical leadership for business-critical payment services including Faster Payments, CHAPS, and COP.
• Own end-to-end technical outcomes, ensuring quality, resilience, and delivery predictability at the team or lab level.
• Lead complex design decisions for low-latency, secure, and compliant payment solutions.
• Manage cross-team dependencies and technical risks impacting the Payments Services Platform.
• Drive DevOps maturity through improvements to CI/CD, monitoring, automation, and quality controls.

Requirements

• Strong expertise in microservices technologies, especially Spring Boot, JSON, Kafka, and RESTful APIs.
• Proven experience designing and delivering resilient and scalable payment services in complex, regulated environments.
• Deep knowledge of event-driven architectures and non-functional requirements like latency and recoverability.
• Technical proficiency with SQL, Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub, and Jenkins.
• Experience with at least one cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GCP, or IBM Cloud).
• Ability to scale technical impact through mentoring engineers and influencing stakeholders.

Culture & Benefits

• Generous pension contribution of up to 15%.
• Annual performance-related bonus and share schemes including free shares.
• 30 days holiday plus bank holidays.
• Comprehensive wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies.
• Flexible workplace adjustments and a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.