Engineering Lead at Shawbrook

Shawbrook provides finance to a wide range of customer segments that value the premium experience, flexibility and certainly we deliver. We are a purpose-led organisation, with a focus on delivering long-term sustainable value for all our stakeholders.

We have a diversified offering, with our innovative lending propositions tailored to meet specific customer needs in carefully selected markets across SME, Real Estate and Personal. Our products range from complex structured credit facilities for growth-focused businesses to mortgages for professional landlords and property investors, as well as simple loans for consumers delivered digitally. We fuel our lending through customer deposits, which we attract by delivering a premium experience, choice and consistently great value to smart savers.

The business model we have created is unique and difficult to replicate, with our ‘best of both’ approach combining deep human expertise with advanced digital, tech and data capabilities. This combination not only allows us to deliver excellent customer experiences, but to do so efficiently and at scale. We are proud of our innovative and agile culture, which drives consistently high employee engagement scores and makes Shawbrook an attractive destination for the best talent.
Work with us because you:

• Want to be part of a bank built for the dynamics of the modern world
• Relish a challenge and enjoy a fast-paced, innovative, and hardworking culture
• Enjoy finding new and better ways to solve complexity and make things happen
• Want to belong to a diverse culture that stands shoulder to shoulder with minority and underrepresented groups
• Care about society and the environment and want to be part of a business that cares too
• Want to continue to grow professionally and be the best version of yourself

Purpose & Scope of role
You will lead a new engineering team, bringing a new skillset to the bank, working on our core banking system. This is an innovative project to change the way we work and shape the products the bank can offer for years to come.

Collaborating with a range of talented teams across the bank, you’ll work closely with product teams, banking specialists and engineering teams to ensure that quality standards are met and a product delivery focus is applied throughout.

This role offers a chance for a skilled lead to deepen their domain experience of developing a dynamic team of engineers, using Agile methodologies to provide continuous system improvements and deliver new features, enhancements, and functionality. 
 

Key Role Responsibilities

• Working as part of a Product focused team this role is responsible for building, maintaining and defining the way our product offerings should work. This is a role in a key team that will help to shape the products the bank can offer for years to come.
• You will need to prioritise tasks efficiently, communicate clearly, and collaborate across various aspects of engineering projects.
• Develop a new software engineering team within the business, where you will provide technical direction and line management to service the next-generation platform.
• Participate in understanding business requirements during agile ceremonies including backlog refinement sessions. Taking responsibility for implementing the most appropriate solution, bearing in mind, non-functional requirements around performance and security.
• Advising on the best technical approaches, considering both time to implement and long-term implications.
• Working to establish a culture of continuous improvement in the team, by consistent application of lessons learned and supporting the new squad’s development and performance.
• Maintaining product quality by ensuring engineering processes and standards are followed.

Skills & Experience

Python: Designing and creating code in Python, to create innovative solutions and drive forward our financial applications.

Microservices: A lot of our platforms and systems are built on a microservice architecture, experience working in this environment will be beneficial.

Management experience: You will have direct reports and will be handling day-to-day line management responsibilities. You will also need a good understanding of how to develop them personally and professionally.

Communication & Stakeholder Management: This will be a collaborative and cross-functional role, working with a range of different teams and stakeholders to gather business requirements, strong communication and stakeholder management is essential.

Defining strategy and optimisation :With this role creating a new team we will need an individual that who has had experience defining the direction of an engineering team and optimising the delivery throughout development,

Numerical Skills: You will be working on complex financial platforms, which will require a strong level of numerical literacy.

Your Wellbeing - We take your health and well-being very seriously by providing a range of benefits to give you and your family peace of mind. These include:

• Market leading family friendly policies such as access to our Maternity, Adoption and Paternity policies from Day 1 of your employment
• Free access to Headspace, a mindfulness & meditation digital health app
• Free access to Peppy digital health app that offers personalised support through fertility treatment becoming a parent or menopause
• EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) - Offering you support on a wide range of subjects including financial concerns, mental wellbeing and more general queries around family, work, housing, and health
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discounts on gym membership
• Contributory pension scheme & death in service

Your Lifestyle - It’s important you strike the right balance between your work and personal life. We provide benefits to support you when at work and when you’re enjoying your leisure time.

• Minimum of 27 days holiday per year
• Option to buy or sell holiday days through our flexi-holiday scheme
• Discounts on gym membership nationwide
• Access to discounts on a range of high street and online brands
• Community support and charitable giving

Your Contribution - We’re focused on rewarding those that go the extra mile in helping us achieve our goals.

• Participation in our annual discretionary bonus scheme designed to reward your contribution to our success
• Proudly Shawbrook recognition scheme focused on recognising our role models and thanking our colleagues for a job well done