Software Engineering Team Lead, YouLend
£100-120k
Embedded merchant financing
Open for applications
Embedded merchant financing
201-500 employees
Open for applications
£100-120k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To enable future financial services to embed their operations within customer-oriented product suites.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of professional software development experience, including 2+ years in a leadership or mentorship role
- Practical experience guiding agile teams using Scrum or similar frameworks
- Proficiency in C#, .NET microservices, AWS (especially EKS), and Angular
- Strong understanding of scalable architecture, quality-focused engineering practices, and operational reliability
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with Product and other stakeholders to drive outcomes
- Clear communication skills and a passion for coaching, mentoring, and supporting others
Desirable
- Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation
- Experience working with financial or regulated systems
- Understanding of Agile/Scrum principles and how to adapt them to different teams or contexts
What the job involves
- YouLend is looking for a skilled and collaborative Team Lead to guide a cross-functional team in delivering high-quality software products using the Scrum framework
- In this role, you'll work closely with product management and business leaders to ensure successful delivery of features across internal and customer-facing systems
- You’ll help foster an inclusive, innovative, and continuously improving team culture, while also contributing to the technical direction and ensuring alignment with business goals
- Guide the development and maintenance of .NET microservices on AWS EKS, and Angular-based front-end services
- Provide clear technical direction, fostering a culture of clean, maintainable, and scalable code
- Lead and participate in code reviews, and encourage best practices across the team
- Collaborate on system architecture for complex systems, optimizing for scalability and performance
- Proactively identify and resolve technical challenges; contribute to broader engineering improvements
- Maintain operational health of team-owned systems, and respond constructively to incidents
- Promote a culture of quality, emphasizing thorough testing and validation
- Balance long-term technical goals with short-term delivery needs
- Help team members navigate blockers and improve development flow
- Serve as the main liaison between the engineering team and other stakeholders
- Share updates on progress, risks, and timelines in a transparent and constructive way
- Work closely with product managers and business stakeholders to align technical work with business goals
- Support each team member's technical and professional development through regular feedback and mentorship
- Create an environment of trust, psychological safety, and open communication
- Facilitate Scrum ceremonies (e.g. , stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives) and promote agile principles
- Encourage continuous improvement in how the team works, delivers, and innovates
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Securing funding can be complicated, arduous and often inaccessible to many companies. YouLend solves this problem by giving eCommerce platforms and tech companies better access to fast and flexible funding.
YouLend has benefited from the boom in the financial services industry, but this also means the company has had to compete with a number of other embedded finance startups, such as Weavr. Despite this, YouLend's focus on online merchants has allowed it to remain competitive in its offering. What's more, the company's revenue-based repayments system differentiates its solution from more established loan options.
YouLend's flexibility and the speed with which merchants can obtain funding has allowed it to gain a foothold in the growing embedded finance market. However, it will need to focus on growing its customer base even further if it wants to scale in this competitive space.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company benefits
- Stock Options
- Private Medical insurance via Vitality
- EAP with Health Assured
- Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave
- Modern and sophisticated office space in Central London
- Free Gym in office building in Holborn
- Subsidised Lunch via Feedr
- Deliveroo Allowance if working late in office
- Monthly in office Masseuse
- Team and Company Socials
- Football Power League / Squash Club
Company HQ
Holborn, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Mikkel Sølvsten Velin
(Co-CEO)Started out as a Junior Associate at Bech-Bruun, and was an External Lecturer at the University of Copenhagen. Was a Partner at Rogge Global Partners (now Allianz Global Investors).
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at YouLend
Joanne Savage (Talent Acquisition Manager)
- At YouLend we’re providing a technology first approach to finance. Our product helps smaller businesses that are the backbone of the economy, and our teams are at the core of delivering our product. We strive to create an equitable culture and we believe our teams are strongest when they are diverse and inclusive.
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