Staff Engineer, OakNorth

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Cypress

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Senior and Expert level

London

Digital bank for business loans and savings

Open for applications

Digital bank for business loans and savings

201-500 employees

FintechB2CB2BBankingLendingFinancial Services

Open for applications

Salary not provided

React

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

TypeScript

GCP

Python

Terraform

MySQL

Cypress

Jest

BigQuery

Senior and Expert level

London

201-500 employees

FintechB2CB2BBankingLendingFinancial Services

Company mission

To serve and empower businesses in the Missing Middle, ensuring each and every one of them has the right tools, insights, and support at every stage of their growth journey with us.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Have a strong technical background, including 8+ years of experience designing and engineering large scale systems
You challenge the existing approach when you see the cliff edge racing towards us, but also get on board once the options have been debated and the team has made a decision
You are comfortably organised amongst chaos
You are a broad thinker and have the capability to see the potential impact of decisions across the wider business

What the job involves

As a Staff Engineer you’ll work with product and engineering across multiple squads to ensure the right trade-offs are being made and that dependencies and communication is managed effectively
Staff Engineers are the most visible engineers in the organisation and demonstrate technical excellence and our cultural values across all squads and to teams across the wider organisation
Lead squads to sensible architectural decisions on the most complex technical problems
Measure your success in terms of business impact, not lines of code
Internalise the best ideas from across the organisation, humbly setting a vision that others can get behind
Embrace DevOps culture: You build it, you run it
Work well cross-functionally and earn trust from co-workers at all levels
Prefer simple solutions and designs over complex ones
Enjoy working with a diverse group of people with different areas of expertise

Salary benchmarks

Our take

The cost-of-living crisis has put pressure on small and medium-sized businesses, making it harder for them to access the financing they need to thrive. And traditional banks often overlook these businesses, leaving a gap in the market for tailored financial solutions.

OakNorth is filling this gap, with its digital bank that provides loans to lower mid-market businesses. By leveraging advanced technology and data analytics, it offers better lending solutions compared to traditional banks.

Its impact is growing too. As of early 2025, it surpassed $1B in lending to US businesses since launching operations there in mid-2023. This is a huge milestone and one that reflects the demand for its services. With this success, the company is in a great position to continue expanding and helping even more businesses achieve their growth objectives.

Kirsty

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

27% female employees

26% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.6)

Trustpilot (4.8)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)

Feb 2019

$440m

GROWTH EQUITY VC

Sep 2018

$100m

SERIES B

Total funding: $902.7m

Company HQ

Carnaby, London, UK

Leadership

Rishi Khosla

(Co-Founder & CEO)

Previously co-founded Copal, a financial research firm which they scaled to 3,000 employees and sold to Moody’s Corporation in 2014.

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