Lead Software Engineer

About the Position

Lead Software Engineer – PRIIP Cloud

London, United Kingdom

We are seeking a Lead Software Engineer to lead the technical design, development, operation, and evolution of our strategic cloud-based PRIIP documentation and reporting platform.

Responsibilities

Technical Leadership

• Own the technical architecture and end-to-end delivery of the PRIIP Cloud platform.
• Define and maintain architectural standards, design patterns, engineering principles, and platform roadmaps.
• Lead technical decision-making across frontend applications, backend services, APIs, integrations, data models, and cloud infrastructure.
• Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, resilient, observable, and maintainable.
• Drive continuous improvement of engineering practices, software quality, and developer productivity.

Full Stack Engineering

• Contribute hands-on across all layers of the platform including frontend, backend services, APIs, integrations, databases, and cloud-native infrastructure.
• Design and build user-facing capabilities, platform services, and operational tooling.
• Lead development of reusable components, shared services, and common platform capabilities.
• Drive automated testing, CI/CD adoption, infrastructure-as-code, and engineering automation.
• Ensure solutions meet performance, availability, reliability, and security expectations.

Operational Ownership

• Own the operation and reliability of the PRIIP Cloud platform in production.
• Support the team's responsibility for production incidents, customer issues, operational troubleshooting, and service restoration activities.
• Drive monitoring, observability, alerting, incident management, capacity planning, and service improvement initiatives.
• Ensure operational processes, runbooks, support procedures, and resilience capabilities are maintained and continuously improved.
• Work closely with Operations and Customer Support teams to ensure high service availability and customer satisfaction.

Product & Domain Collaboration

• Partner with Product Owners, Compliance SMEs, Quantitative Analysts, and regulatory specialists to translate complex business and regulatory requirements into technical solutions.
• Work alongside team members with deep expertise in structured products, derivatives, equities, and PRIIPs regulations.
• Ensure technical solutions accurately reflect financial product behavior, regulatory requirements, and client expectations.
• Provide technical leadership whilst leveraging specialist business knowledge from subject matter experts across the team.

Team Leadership

• Mentor and coach engineers across the team.
• Foster a culture of accountability, ownership, engineering excellence, and continuous learning.
• Support recruitment, onboarding, and career development.
• Encourage adoption of modern engineering practices, including AI-assisted software development and engineering automation.

Requirements

• Experience: 8+ years of software engineering experience with significant full-stack development experience.
• Role: Previous experience operating as a Lead Developer, Technical Lead, Principal Engineer, or similar role.
• Production Systems: Proven experience owning production systems and supporting live business-critical platforms.
• Cloud-Native Systems: Strong experience designing and building cloud-native distributed systems.
• Technologies:
  • Required: TypeScript / Node.js, React or modern web frameworks, REST APIs, event-driven architectures, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, DevOps
  • Desirable: Java / Kotlin, Kafka, OAuth2, OpenID Connect, SAML, Keycloak, Datadog, Grafana, Elastic, OpenTelemetry, AI-assisted software development
• Environment: Experience working in financial services or other highly regulated environments.
• Skills: Strong stakeholder management, mentoring, and leadership capabilities.

We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Opportunity to work in a dynamic and innovative fintech environment
• Professional development opportunities
• Collaborative and inclusive work culture

About the Company

We are an employer that values diversity. We highly encourage applications from appropriately qualified and eligible candidates irrespective of age, race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, veteran status, disability, or any other status protected by applicable law.