Job Title
Lead Software Engineer
Salary
£69,624 – £105,780
Location
London, Edinburgh, Bristol, Manchester, Birmingham or Leeds
Hours
Full-time
Working Pattern
Hybrid: at least two days per week or 40% of time at an office. Adjustments supported for disabilities in line with the Flexibility Works policy.
What you’ll be doing
- Provide technical leadership across business‑critical payment services (e.g. Faster Payments, CHAPS, COP), shaping architecture beyond a single team.
- Own end‑to‑end technical outcomes at team or lab level, ensuring quality, resilience and delivery predictability.
- Lead complex design decisions for low‑latency, resilient, secure and compliant payment solutions.
- Manage cross‑team dependencies, technical risks and delivery impediments impacting the Payments Services Platform.
- Balance customer outcomes, regulatory risk and platform maintainability when making delivery decisions.
- Drive DevOps maturity across teams through improvements to CI/CD, monitoring, automation and quality controls.
What we’re looking for?
- Strong understanding of an entire application stack, both breadth and depth; exposure to microservices technologies, especially Spring boot, JSON, Kafka, RESTful APIs and web services.
- Proven experience designing and delivering resilient, scalable and secure payment services, ideally within complex regulated environments.
- Strong systems and solution design capability, with evidence of leading technical decisions beyond a single feature or component.
- Demonstrated technical leadership: setting engineering standards, reviewing designs and code, and improving quality and DevOps maturity at team or product level.
- Deep expertise in modern microservices, APIs, event‑driven architectures, and non‑functional requirements such as latency, availability and recoverability.
- Clear ownership of live service health, including incident response, root‑cause analysis and preventative resilience improvements.
- Ability to scale technical impact by mentoring engineers, influencing stakeholders and improving platform‑level ways of working.
- Technical understanding of Spring boot, Camel, Maven, GitHub, Jenkins, JSON, Kafka/WMQ, REST APIs, database SQL, Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience with cloud‑based tools – IBM Cloud Private, Google GCP, Microsoft Azure or Amazon AWS.
Benefits
- Generous pension contribution of up to 15%
- Annual performance‑related bonus
- Share schemes including free shares
- Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
- 30 days holiday, with bank holidays on top
- Wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
Diversity and Inclusion
Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities. We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. As a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long‑term health or neuro‑divergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme. We also provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers.
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