Hybrid Lead Engineer – Collections and Treasury

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About the role

  • Lead Engineer for collections and treasury product at NALA, building financial infrastructure. Overseeing design, architecture, and collaboration with stakeholders in a high-paced environment.

Responsibilities

  • Own key architecture and implementation decisions for the collections & treasury foundation
  • Lead design work (RFCs, diagrams, API and system specs) to align on solutions before building
  • Partner with PMs and stakeholders to translate business intent into technically sound requirements
  • Design and build customer-facing and internal APIs to support collections and payment strategies
  • Build reliable infrastructure for vIBAN provisioning and collections orchestration
  • Drive engineering quality across API standards, testing strategy, code review bar, and maintainability
  • Manage delivery by breaking down complex work, sequencing milestones, and keeping projects moving end to end
  • Make pragmatic trade-offs: move fast where we can, protect correctness where we must (especially in financial systems)

Requirements

  • Have worked with Go in a production environment
  • How to translate business intent into technical requirements and clean system boundaries
  • What “good” looks like in financial-grade systems, including correctness, reliability, auditability, and operational readiness
  • Design principles that drive maintainability (single responsibility, separation of concerns, etc.)
  • API fundamentals, including consistency, versioning, backward compatibility, and developer experience
  • Requirement gathering
  • Design-first (this is a must)
  • Engineering quality
  • Disciplined execution
  • Proven delivery of complex backend or distributed systems in a production environment
  • Experience owning systems end to end, from design to build to ship to operate to iterate
  • Experience working closely with PMs and stakeholders to shape solutions, not just implement them
  • Experience making pragmatic trade-offs in startup environments, balancing speed, correctness, and scope
  • Calm, decisive, and effective in ambiguous environments
  • Collaborative by default, aligns early, communicates clearly, and brings others along
  • High ownership with high standards, accountable for outcomes, not just output
  • Pragmatic, not dogmatic, knows where we can compromise to move fast and where we absolutely should not

Benefits

  • 27 Days Off Plus UK Bank Holidays
  • Birthday Leave: Celebrate your special day with a bonus day off to take off in that month.
  • Enhanced Parental Leave: We offer 16 weeks of full pay for the primary caregiver and 4 weeks of full pay for the secondary caregiver (After a 6-month probationary period)
  • Enhanced Pension: Salary sacrifice pension scheme via Penfold giving you flexibility and control on how you save for your future!
  • Global Workspace: Get access to WeWork locations worldwide.
  • Learning Budget: Fuel your growth with $1000 annually for learning and development.
  • Sarabi: Themed snacks and Friday lunch focused on building great working relationships with the team.
  • Monthly Socials: Join fun social events every month for great times.
  • Free Coffee: Enjoy barista-style coffee at your fingertips.

Job title

Lead Engineer – Collections and Treasury

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

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