About the company
Rapidly scaling energy platform. This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps.
Responsibilities
- Own the overall delivery outcomes of the Payments squad, ensuring reliable, high-quality software and strong engineering standards
- Set the technical and architectural direction for the payments domain, transforming an existing functional service into infrastructure designed for significant future scale
- Lead from the front by writing technical specifications and design documents, reviewing architecture decision records and pull requests, and contributing directly to implementation
- Solve the most complex technical problems alongside the engineering team
- Establish the squad’s operating model, balancing delivery speed with quality, resilience, and maintainability
- Drive improvements in payment accuracy and processing efficiency, reducing the cost of processing transactions
- Identify and resolve technical blockers
- Manage technical sequencing, cross-team dependencies, and delivery priorities
- Diagnose throughput and delivery issues and implement structural improvements
- Coach junior engineers and work closely with senior engineers
- Define and communicate what good engineering looks like through hands-on collaboration, design reviews, and code reviews
- Partner with management on hiring and promotion decisions
Requirements
- Proven experience as a Tech Lead or equivalent technical leader, with ownership of a team’s delivery outcomes and engineering standards
- Strong track record of leading from the front line, including writing design documents, reviewing pull requests and architecture decisions, and solving complex technical challenges hands-on
- Ability to balance direct contribution to major technical problems with coaching and developing less experienced engineers
- Experience establishing a team’s engineering practices and ways of working from the ground up
- Demonstrated ability to manage cross-team sequencing and dependencies and diagnose the underlying causes of delivery or throughput problems
- Strong judgment in ambiguous environments
- Proven ability to drive technical blockers through to resolution
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Experience with payments systems is highly desirable
- Experience improving processing efficiency or cost-to-process within a high-volume service is an advantage
- Experience taking an early-stage or basic service and evolving it into a robust, scalable production system is a strong plus
- Comfortable working in a remote-first, fast-moving environment
Conditions
- Competitive salary aligned with the seniority and technical leadership scope
- Stock options
- 25 days of annual leave plus public holidays
- Flexible public holidays
- Birthday off
- Remote-first working
- Clear core hours
- Meeting-free Friday afternoons
- Remote-work allowance up to £1,200 or €1,200 per year
- Wellbeing allowance up to £150 or €150 per month
- High-impact ownership
- Hands-on leadership
- Inclusive environment