Engineering Lead, Funding Xchange
£70-100k
Transforming SME lending by accelerating and improving lending decisions
Job no longer available
Transforming SME lending by accelerating and improving lending decisions
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
£70-100k
21-100 employees
Company mission
To unlock capital for SMEs by helping banks and lenders make quicker, better and safer landing decisions
Role
Who you are
- You have experience leading, coaching, mentoring and scaling driven and high performing tech teams
- You are comfortable with ambiguity but know when the situation requires to be specific and are adept at working with stakeholders across a range of technical and non technical disciplines
- You have experience managing your team with a balance of compassion and delivery focus ensuring that a sustainable pace is maintained
- You have experience across the stack with technologies like Node, Kotlin/JVM, Golang, Python, databases (Postgres/NoSQL), PubSub/Kafka/Pulsar, and Cloud platforms like AWS or GCP
- You are at the forefront of development practices like TDD, BDD, CI, CD and know where and how it's appropriate to apply each
- You have a passion for solving complex business problems with a balance of technology and people
- You have the ability to articulate a long-term technical vision and define the path for how to get there
- You have experience identifying cross-cutting problems, proposing solutions, and driving adoption of those solutions across teams with their priorities
- You bring excellent written and verbal communication skills and a bias toward open, transparent cultural practices
What the job involves
- We're looking for ambitious, product-focused Engineering Leads who are excited both by our product vision and the prospect of joining us on our mission to transform SME funding
- You will be a trusted technical authority within the organisation, responsible for leading a team of engineers, fostering a culture of intellectual curiosity, engineering excellence, continuous improvement and innovation
- You will form a tight partnership with cross-functional teams to execute on your product team's vision and roadmap
- By joining FXE Tech, you'll be able to disrupt a traditionally manual industry through the intelligent application of technology to improve the daily lives of small and medium business owners and empower them with same day decisions in a world where they'd be otherwise waiting for access to finance
- We are building class leading tools to give deeper and actionable insights to financial institutions on their portfolios
- Collaborate closely with your Product Manager and Engineers to optimise execution of a collaboratively agreed and managed backlog
- Maintaining your team's short and long-term technology strategy while aligning with Funding Xchange's broad strategic mission
- Operate as a Player-Coach splitting your time equally between delivery and team leadership
- Empower your team members by trusting them with tasks and projects according to their expertise and ambitions
- Provide continuous feedback to all engineers and manage their career development through performance reviews
- Ensure the delivery process with your team is effective, transparent and the outcomes are celebrated
- Be accountable for architecture and quality - ensure we ship high-quality, stable, scalable, and secure code
- Foster a collaborative approach towards architecture and facilitating data-driven decisions
- Work with other Engineering Leads to deliver cross-organisation engineering initiatives
- Help with recruiting efforts for hiring engineers and technical leads within and out of your network
- Champion engineering and operational excellence, establishing metrics and processes within and across the company
Our take
Accessing funding is vital for the growth of businesses of any size, but finding the right lender can be a time-consuming process. Access to lenders is often limited and the funding options that they provide follow a "one size fits all" approach, leading available options to be unaffordable and inaccessible to SMEs.
The first product the Company launched was a digital credit broking platform, the Funding Xchange Marketplace, which has been running for nearly a decade, serving hundreds of thousands of customers, in which time the technology proved its worth, reducing approval time by 75% and saving SMEs on average £9,000 per loan in financing costs (a 57% saving). These learnings from the direct Marketplace enabled Funding Xchange to build market leading technology solutions and today, Funding Xchange is providing white-label software solutions for banks and lenders and is also developing industry-wide solutions that join up the SME finance ecosystem, deliver greater transparency and ensure businesses can access suitable products that address their needs.
Funding Xchange products have been adopted by 80 of the most innovative high street banks, challenger banks and specialist lenders. The company has been recognised as a leading innovator in the commercial lending space and has won numerous international awards, including a BCR grant. In 2024, it raised a Series B, backed by Barclays, which will catalyse the business’ ability to drive ecosystem adoption of these digital tools.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Apr 2024
$13.5m
SERIES B
Sep 2020
$10.8m
SERIES A
Total funding: $33m
Company benefits
- Flexible / hybrid working
- Virtual GP, employee assistance and wellbeing support
- 25 days annual leave plus UK Bank Holidays
- Life Assurance – 4 x base salary should the worst happen
- Recruitment referral scheme
- Autoenrollment in a pension scheme with contributions from Funding Xchange
Company HQ
London, UK
Leadership
Katrin Herrling
(CEO)Experience as Senior Director of Strategic Planning and Head of Regional Marketing for American Express from 2005 to 2007. Manager and Principal of Bain & Company from 2007 to 2014.
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