Lead Back-End Engineer, Foundry OS

• 7+ years experience as a back-end engineer with experience of some or all of the technologies in our platform or equivalents
• Knowledge of building and running banking grade Cloud based SaaS solutions
• Attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills
• Flexible and focussed on solutions
• Organised and self-sufficient
• Background and/or enthusiasm for the ways we work:
• Test Driven Development
• Functional Programming
• Build automation, continuous integration and continuous deployment to production systems
• Agile/iterative development processes
• Shared code ownership & cross-functional teams
• Collaborative design and development
• Pair programming

Desirable

• We are looking for skilled Kotlin engineers to help build FoundryOS
• You'll be a key player in our team, building out new products and features of the platform
• Building high-performance, scalable, available, fault-tolerant systems is a team game, and so we want to know that you play well with others. Lone geniuses are brilliant — just not for us
• Lead the technical design and development of one of the core back-end domains within the FoundryOS platform
• Ensure high-performance, scalable, available, fault-tolerant systems are built and maintained
• Directly manage, coach and mentor the team of Engineers developing talent and fostering a culture of technical ownership, collaboration and quality
• Define and execute the technical strategy and architecture decisions alongside other Lead Engineers and the CTO
• Partner with Product Managers and leadership to refine and execute the product domain’s roadmap
• Contribute as a core member of the technology leadership team covering information security and governance to establish standards, protocols and mechanisms for secure, reliable SaaS solutions
• In a “you build it, you run it” model ensure that continual delivery is executed, technical risks and dependencies are managed and ensure the team adopts DevOps practices
• We operate in multiple build squads that operate independently but align to the same goals and ways of working. We recognise that different drives guide our roadmaps from client needs to commercial strategy to regulatory change and managing those dependencies are made through aligned team decisions
• We strongly believe that you grow expertise through hands-on experience, rather than just theoretical knowledge, so our approach to product leadership is designed to give you deep exposure to our products, our clients, and the fintech industry really fast. And really often
• We build our product and tech function with focus on:
• Understanding FoundryOS capabilities, industry needs and client use cases
• Quality is at the heart of everything we do and not just a gate in a process
• Leading product roadmaps, planning and establishing best practices
• Developing expertise in the financial services industry and regulatory environments
• Building and maintaining exceptional client relationships through team excellence
• Zero-to-one function building — creating product delivery frameworks, engineering performance systems, and product delivery processes from the ground up
• We build our platform with technology like:
• Kotlin & ecosystem — Coroutines, Arrow, Ktor, Kotlinx.Serialization, Exposed
• Event-sourced microservices
• Cloud deployments — Azure, Docker, Kubernetes
• High-performance data & messaging — Postgres, gRPC, Kafka

• Step 1: Meet the recruiter. If you meet the grade we will have a short discussion with you to understand you more and get to know us and the role
• Step 2: First (technical) interview. The team you could be working with will interview you. Some roles have a technical part of the interview process
• Step 3: Second (final) interview. A second stage interview will go deeper about you and how you align with us as a company
• Step 4: Decision. We will make a decision and let you know why. We will never ghost you or give you generic feedback