Technical Lead, Software Development, Software Engineer

Tech Lead (Payments/Fintech) – £90,000-£120,000 & 15% bonus – Hybrid

Please note – you must have previous experience working with payments to be considered for this role and this role does not offer sponsorship.

A London based fintech/payments client are doubling their global tech offering and embarking on an exciting rebrand; looking for a Technical Lead/Hands‑on Engineering Manager to facilitate the growth and development of their software engineering teams. You will be specifically working to scale and improve their new payments platform as well as launching a new range of fintech products.

Whilst the team are working in Python, this is by no means essential to be considered – the chief importance is that you have worked with payments technologies and understand associated principles/nuances of the industry. If you are a strong lead engineer/hands‑on engineering manager, we would love to hear from you:

• 50/50 hands‑on and technical/people leadership
• Working with engineers to uphold and define scalable long‑term platform architecture
• Leading and mentoring a skilled team of 3-5 engineers / helping with scaling & interviews where necessary
• Lead from the front and foster a culture of accountability, extreme ownership

• Python nice to have but other backend languages considered
• Cloud services and CICD

Up to £120k & 15% bonus

Please note – this role will require 4 days per week in office/onsite in London.

3 stages then offer (x1 technical interview – 1 peer review/team meeting – 1 meeting with Engineering Director - offer)

If this is of interest - please drop me an email with your CV and we can schedule a call