What you’ll own
- Delivery through Shape Up cycles – turning pitches into work engineers can execute, managing the shape/architect/build phases, ensuring what ships actually solves the customer problem.
- Accountability over technical decisions – the architecture choices, trade‑offs between extending and rebuilding, maintaining quality in systems where correctness isn’t optional because we’re moving real money.
- Engineer development in a high‑autonomy environment – helping people grow when they have freedom to make their own decisions, addressing performance issues without micromanagement.
- Hiring for a functional‑programming shop – finding engineers who can thrive writing Clojure or are willing to learn it, building a team that can handle distributed systems and financial‑services constraints.
Your background
You’ll fit well here if you come from one of these backgrounds:
- Functional programming – you’ve led teams building production systems in Clojure, Elixir, Erlang, Haskell, Scala, or similar languages. You write code well enough to review it, pair on it, and contribute meaningfully.
- Fintech domain expertise – you’ve managed engineering teams in payments, banking, cards, or similar areas where compliance, money movement, and correctness aren’t abstract concepts.
Beyond that, you’ll need:
- Experience building high‑performing teams – you’ve hired well, developed engineers, and created environments where people do their best work.
- Comfort working with product teams – you’ve shaped what gets built alongside PMs, not just executed on requirements handed down.
- Comfort with high autonomy and startup pace – you trust your team to make decisions, priorities shift, and you don’t need perfect clarity to move forward.
We’re remote‑first
We trust people to do great work wherever they are. We hire across the UK and most of our team works remotely full‑time. We have a small London office in Moorgate for those who want it, and about a third of the company is close enough to use it occasionally, but there’s no expectation to be there. What matters is the work, not where you do it.
Under representation
Our goal is for Griffin to proportionally represent the diversity of the working population in society. We’re working to ensure that Griffin is a supportive, empowering and inclusive environment for every member of our team – whatever your combination of race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation, physical ability, nationality, neurodiversity, and religious beliefs. If you’re part of a group that is under‑represented in fintech, we’d love to hear from you.
Griffin Bank Ltd request that recruitment agencies do not speculatively submit CVs to any employee or associate of our company unless explicitly asked to do so by a member of our Talent team.
Any CVs sent to any member of our team on a speculative basis will not be recognised and we will not accept liability for any fee or commission should we subsequently employ a candidate who applied to us directly or was introduced by an instructed agency that may also have been submitted speculatively by an uninstructed agency.
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