Lead Software Engineer - Finance and Operations Automations

We're redefining consumer lending in the UK, and beyond. Using advanced AI and Open Banking data, we make fair, affordable personal finance available to more people. We're looking for a Lead Software Engineer to own the engineering function that automates how our Finance and Operations teams work.

Requirements

• Strong experience building production systems in Python, including async code, type hints, and a serious approach to testing
• A product mindset — you measure success by the problem solved, not the ticket closed, and you're comfortable pushing back on requirements that don't make sense
• Experience working directly with business stakeholders (Finance, Operations, Compliance, or similar) to understand how their function actually works, gather requirements, and translate them into reliable systems
• Strong engineering judgement and the ability to make pragmatic technical trade-offs, especially when building for internal users where reliability and auditability matter more than novelty
• Experience maintaining business-critical systems and supporting them in production
• Strong sense of ownership across the full lifecycle: discovery, design, build, deployment, and support
• Experience working with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Comfortable in fast-paced environments where accuracy, reliability, and clear communication are essential

Benefits

• Everyone owns a piece of the company — equity
• Hybrid with 3 days a week in the office
• 25 days' holiday a year, plus 8 bank holidays
• 2 paid volunteering days per year
• One month paid sabbatical after 4 years
• Employee loan
• Free gym membership
• Team wellness budget to be active together — set up a yoga class, a tennis lesson or go bouldering