Lead Software Engineer, Ophelos
Growth
£85-100k
2-3 days a week in office
Improving the financial health of consumers and businesses
Open for applications
Improving the financial health of consumers and businesses
21-100 employees
Open for applications
£85-100k
2-3 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To become the new standard for how organisations resolve debt - ethically & technologically.
Role
Who you are
- Proven experience in managing technical teams and owning the delivery of a squad roadmap
- Strong problem-solving skills to identify and address issues, blockers, and delays, with the ability to effectively communicate these to senior management
- Pragmatic, business driven approach to developing technical solutions
- Appreciation of clean architecture and design patterns and understanding of the benefits of test-driven code
Desirable
- Experience scaling a product over different geographies
What the job involves
- Our Growth squad plays a critical role in this expansion 17 European countries.
- Your mission will be to lead the team across various Growth projects, crucial to our expansion journey. It’s a small team of four, with ranging seniority so the majority of your time will be spent working as an individual contributor
- Lead the delivery of the product roadmap through organising the set up and orchestration of the squad’s technical roadmap and resourcing
- Design, implement and deliver software such as ingestion pipelines, API and a greenfield internal operations application
- Align technical solutions with business goals that enable us to meet our goals
- Prioritise and organise the team’s backlog; this refers to managing bugs, maintaining features and technical debt
- Mentor other members of the team to ensure technical excellence and continuously raise the bar when it comes to engineering standards
- Innovate by sharing your ideas with the team and build products that make an incredibly impactful difference to society and people’s lives
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Debt affects millions of consumers in the UK. Over 300 people a day are declared insolvent or bankrupt – that's equivalent to one person roughly every 4 minutes. And at the same time, 12.8 million households have less than £1,500 in savings, and 4.8 million households live without at least one essential household appliance. But the aggressive ways in which companies collect debt remains relatively unchanged from 100 years ago.
Ophelos is an early-stage startup aiming to radically alter the way consumers manage debt. Their focus is on reimagining the customer experience by interacting with households through digital platforms and truly supporting them on their journey to become debt-free and beyond.
Backed by some of Europe's top investors – who have previously backed Citymapper, Curve, TrueLayer, and Wayve – the Ophelos team of researchers, engineers and business leaders bring decades of experience working across enterprises and academia, for companies like Oracle, Monzo and IBM, and academic institutions such as Oxford University, the University of Amsterdam and the University of Hong Kong.
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Employee endorsements
Meaningful work
"Working in a relatively niche and old-school industry (debt collection) means that there's so much scope for innovation & improvement. Every project..."
Funding (2 rounds)
Jun 2022
$6.2m
SEED
Jun 2021
$2.3m
SEED
Total funding: $8.5m
Company benefits
- £500 Learning & Development Allowance per annum
- 33 days holiday (incl. bank holidays)
- Flexible Working arrangement - work from the office 1+ day per week and the rest from home
- Team Activities (Team Lunches, After-Work Fun, etc.)
- Cycle to work scheme
- £200 annual working from home allowance
- Private Healthcare through Vitality
- Choose when to take Public Holidays
- Cashback on dental, optical, physio appointments
Company values
- Obsess over Customers & Clients - we prioritise our customers and clients, finding solutions that benefit both. Compassion, empathy, and respect underpin every interaction and decision we make
- Feedback is a Gift - we give honest feedback, ensuring we are sensitive in our delivery, and mindful of how different people like to give and receive feedback. We proactively ask for feedback and seek out different opinions in the room to diversify perspectives
- Be Selfless, Act Autonomous - we empower each other to make decisions, both practically and emotionally. We give each other freedom, because we know we can rely on one another
- Move with Courage & Urgency - prioritise action, especially when the decision is reversible. Experiment and deliver fast
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
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Leadership
Amon Ghaiumy
(CEO)Experienced startup operator, previously Director at Moat (acquired by Oracle) and ASAPP.
Paul Chong
(CCO)Experienced technology executive, previously Head of IBM Watson, and VP at ASAPP.
Qingchen Wang, Ph.D
(Chief Scientist)Leading AI/ML researcher and professor at the University of Hong Kong.
People progressing
Melissa started as a Mid Software Engineer in 2021 (employee no. 11). She progressed to Senior Software Engineer in March 2023 and is now the Tech Lead for our CX squad.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Ophelos
- We are committed to creating a diverse work environment. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability or age.
- Our team is truly diverse and multi-cultural, with backgrounds from England, Russia, Germany, Iran, Australia, China, Malaysia, Italy, Canada, Mauritius and more.
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