Lead Software Engineer, Ophelos
Growth
£85-100k
2 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 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
- Experience with Backend language (ideally using a framework)
- 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 launched in June of 2021, backed by investors such as AlbionVC, Connect Ventures and Fly Ventures. In 2023, we were acquired by Intrum, Europe’s biggest credit management service. Our growing team has team helped build some of the world’s most successful businesses, including the likes of Monzo, Google, Oracle, ASAPP, IBM and more — in addition to pioneering innovative products, sitting at the intersection of enterprise, financial technology, artificial intelligence and academia, working with institutions such as Oxford University, the University of Amsterdam and the University of Hong Kong.
Ophelos is a startup aiming to radically alter the way consumers manage debt. Its 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. Through its AI-native collections platform, the company helps people clear their debts flexibly and affordably, whilst businesses learn vital insights and improve their customer experience through Ophelos's tools. Leading UK clients of Ophelos include Octopus Energy, Scottish Power and Philips.
Ophelos is backed by some of Europe's top investors – who have previously backed Citymapper, Curve, TrueLayer, and Wayve - and was acquired by Europe's largest credit management service Intrum in 2023. This acquisition helped Ophelos enter 17 new European markets,
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Insights
44% female employees
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jun 2022
$6.5m
SEED
Jun 2021
$2.3m
SEED
Total funding: $8.8m
Company benefits
- £500 Learning & Development Allowance per annum
- 33 days holiday (incl. bank holidays)
- Flexible Working arrangement - work from the office 2 days 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
- Customers and Clients first - we exist to help real people move through debt and to get clients paid back. This commitment drives how we design products, deliver services, and interact with customers and clients daily.
- Dream big - we have ambition and drive to succeed - we’re not just raising the bar, we’re confidently asserting ourselves as the benchmark.
- Get it done - we’re decisive and embrace a sense of urgency; we don’t let opportunities get away from us. We’d rather act quickly and take informed risks, iterating and learning as we go.
- Win as one - we work as one team, supporting each other and aiming for shared goals. At Ophelos, the team isn’t just individual departments - it’s all of us together. We challenge and support each other because we care about everyone’s growth and success.
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
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.
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