Head of Engineering, Funding Circle
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Business finance that backs you and your business to succeed
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Business finance that backs you and your business to succeed
501-1000 employees
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501-1000 employees
Company mission
We are on a mission to build the place where small businesses go to get the funding they need to win
Role
Who you are
- We value deep expertise, but a growth mindset and good energy are what really make our team click. We’re a group that chooses to lift each other up and think smart every day
- Experienced in engineering management and technical leadership having successfully led engineering re-organisations
- Experienced in delivering mission-critical, high-value products and services, and have expertise in effective partnering with Product counterparts
- Experienced with Agile methodologies, engineering metrics and making data-driven decisions, and building high-performing teams
- Experienced in working in a fast-paced environment and are able to successfully navigate and lead through change
- We’re building a place where everyone truly feels they belong. Even if your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement, we'd still love to hear from you
What the job involves
- The Head of Engineering, Multi-Product Experiences will be responsible for leading the engineering teams dedicated to Multi-Product Experiences
- The group consists of existing teams being brought together under a newly defined mission: to deliver a seamless lifetime customer experience
- They will achieve this through unifying and streamlining product-agnostic customer journeys and business processes, while ensuring seamless integration with product-specific customer journeys and core business processes
- You will be accountable for setting the technology strategy for Multi-Product Experiences, and achieving the outcomes for your group across technology & architecture, engineering excellence and talent & ways of working
- In addition, you will be accountable for the successful execution of the prioritised product roadmap, progress towards target state architecture, and delivery against strategic business objectives, as well as:
- Be a team builder: you’ll support, manage, and mentor engineering managers and staff engineers of varying experience levels. You will create the group structure to scale and grow with the values of the company
- Be a driver: you’ll operationalise strategic goals, drive company and product direction, prioritise resources, and realise incremental value. You’ll implement effective engineering processes, technology, and policies for sustained growth
- Be an AI champion: proactively seek opportunities and realise value through the use of AI across the SDLC and PDLC
- Be a Funding Circle Rep: you’ll represent Funding Circle engineering and management at industry events, and help grow our brand within the community
- Be a collaborator: you’ll forge deep bonds with your business counterparts, understanding their needs and sharing ownership of their outcomes
- Be a teacher: be generous with your time and expertise to educate and upskill stakeholders and fellow engineering leaders
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Funding Circle launched in 2010 and it was the perfect time in the market. After the financial crisis in 2008, financial institutions were hesitant to lend money. Loans to SMEs were at record lows.
This meant that Funding Circle's innovative platform - connecting investors and businesses directly - had immediate product-market fit and growth. Funding Circle remains incredibly focused on small businesses, and this set it apart from other lending platforms. The business has since expanded to the USA.
The company completed its IPO in September 2018 in a challenging economic environment in Europe and the USA. In 2020, however, trading in the group’s core UK market was helped by its participation in the government’s Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme – the company says it has been responsible for a quarter of CBILS loans by volume since it was accredited to join the scheme in April 2020. Funding Circle continues to be a leading SME financing platform, exemplified by its partnership with Bayview Asset Management, with whom it has surpassed £1 billion in funding for its Term Lending product.
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Meet the team
Genn, Head of New Channel Growth (FlexiPay)
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Company
Employee endorsements
Focus on employee wellbeing
"We've moved to a hybrid way of working at FC. We have lots of employee benefits, from lunch budgets (Just Eat), to retail discounts, gym/health..."
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jan 2017
$105.2m
SERIES F
Apr 2015
$150m
SERIES E
Total funding: $377.7m
Company benefits
- Annual learning budget
- Private Health insurance covering pre-existing conditions
- 5% Matched Pension
- 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
- Access to Wellhub (formally Gym Pass)
- Dental Insurance
- Just Eat for Business allowance when in the office
- Enhanced parental and adoption leave
Company values
- Think smart
- Obsess over the customer
- Make it happen
- Be open
- Stand together
- Live the adventure
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Lisa Jacobs
(CEO)Lisa is responsible for driving the company’s strategy and overseeing Funding Circle's operations in the UK and US.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Funding Circle
Victoria Bradford-Hall (VP, People)
- At Funding Circle, we are on a mission to back small businesses like no other company has ever done before. To succeed, we need a team that reflects the diverse world of the customers we support. We are building a place where everyone truly feels they belong. We know our success is rooted in a culture where every Circler - regardless of background, identity, or experience - has the confidence to bring their whole self to work. In our fast-moving environment, we don't just "accept" diversity; we actively seek it out to help us spot opportunities and find a better way. We measure our success not just by what we achieve individually, but by the impact we have on others. Even if your past experience does not align perfectly with every requirement, we would still love to hear from you.
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