Engineering Manager, Lemfi
1+ day a week in office
International payments service
Open for applications
International payments service
201-500 employees
Open for applications
1+ day a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To improve the financial lives of the next generation of immigrants.
Role
Who you are
- Impact-Oriented: You prioritise meaningful outcomes that improve product reliability and customer experience
- Technically Strong: You bring deep experience in scalable distributed systems using Go Lang, Java or similar
- Influential Leader: You guide technical direction across teams through clarity, mentorship, and collaboration
- Strategic Partner: You work effectively with Product, Data, and business leaders to align priorities
- Growth-Focused: You are curious, adaptive, and excited about the potential of AI-enhanced engineering
- Experience building and scaling backend systems in with strong SQL fundamentals
- Solid understanding of RESTful API design, DDD, and modular architectures
- Strong grounding in observability (logging, metrics, tracing) and secure coding practices
- Familiarity with async processing patterns (queues, coroutines, message bus) and containerisation (Docker)
- Ability to design efficient, secure AWS architectures
- Don’t meet every single requirement in the job ad? Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often hesitate to apply if they don't check every box. If you are excited about this role and our mission, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might be just the right person for this, or other roles
What the job involves
- As an Engineering Manager in the Engagement & Platform Squad, you will lead the team behind two critical drivers of our growth: building cross-product engagement capabilities — such as in-app communication, referrals, loyalty programs, and customer support — and shaping the architecture of our BackOffice platform that powers internal operations
- You will set technical direction, elevate engineering standards, and ensure the delivery of reliable, scalable systems that serve customers around the world
- This is a high-impact leadership role with meaningful ownership. You will support and grow a team of engineers while partnering closely with Product, Data, and Growth to translate strategy into measurable outcomes and sustained business impact
- Drive Technical Strategy: Guide architectural decisions, influence system design, and ensure scalable, reliable solutions
- Raise Engineering Standards: Uphold high quality across implementation, testing, observability, and long-term maintainability
- Mentor & Grow Talent: Support engineers and technical leads through structured coaching, feedback, and development plans
- Align With Business Goals: Partner cross-functionally to prioritise work, clarify requirements, and deliver impactful outcomes
- Enable Team Effectiveness: Remove blockers, bring clarity to ambiguity, and support strong decision-making across squads
- Evolve Engineering Practices: Improve tooling, workflows, and processes to support long-term quality and velocity
- Lead With Care: Conduct regular 1:1s, manage performance, and support engineers’ growth and career progression
Application process
- Chat with a Talent Partner (30 mins)
- Behaviours & Culture (30 mins)
- System Design (60 mins)
- Final Interview (30 mins)
Salary benchmarks
Our take
LemFi, previously known as Lemonade Finance, is a fintech platform addressing the challenge of accessing reliable financial services faced by millions of immigrants worldwide. By offering quick onboarding and a multi-currency offering, LemFi allows its users to send, receive, hold, convert, and save in both their country of origin and residence currencies.
Recognising the limitations faced by traditional banks and neo-banks, LemFi offers instant international transfers at favourable exchange rates with no transfer fees. Initially launched in Canada, growing demand for the company's services has allowed it to expand to the UK, and broaden its African payment channels.
The company has secured good funding from prominent investors like Y-Combinator, Zrosk, Global Founders Capital, and Olive Tree. With plans to expand its product offering across the globe, LemFi will further its mission of providing accessible and transparent financial services to migrant communities worldwide.
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Company
Company HQ
Westminster, London, UK
Leadership
Ridwan Olalere
(Co-Founder & CEO)Ridwan is also the Founder of forLoop Africa. Previously, he served as the Country Manager of Uber Nigeria and worked as a Software Developer at Flutterwave, Hotels, Novatia, and NextMynds.
Rian Cochran
(Co-Founder)Rian was previously a Financial Director at Opera Software, Powerbets Holdings, and OPay.
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