Hybrid Lead Engineer – Digital Lending

at OakNorth

• Job title: Lead Engineer – Digital Lending
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Tech skills: Distributed Systems
• Location requirements: Hybrid, London, United Kingdom

About the role

• Lead Engineer overseeing Full Stack Engineers at OakNorth Bank. Driving technical delivery and coaching engineers in a hybrid working environment.

Responsibilities

• We power OakNorth's relationship‑led lending with modern, modular tools across origination, underwriting, execution, and portfolio monitoring.

Requirements

• Lead a squad of 4-6 Full Stack Engineers.
• Responsible for technical delivery and ensuring the squad understands and focuses on the goal.
• Design resilient, scalable solutions for event-driven and distributed systems.
• Break down complex problems into incremental deliverables with clear architecture and domain boundaries.
• Measure your success in terms of business impact, not lines of code.
• Embrace DevOps culture: You build it, you run it.
• Prefer simple solutions and designs over complex ones.
• Influence architecture across the broader platform, making pragmatic, forward-thinking decisions.
• Coach and mentor engineers, guiding both their technical and professional development.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business needs into high-quality technical outcomes.
• Collaborate with designers on frontend work with attention to detail.
• Utilise GenerativeAI: Leverage GenAI tools to increase productivity and enhance decision making processes within the role.

Benefits

• This is a truly hybrid role, offering engineers the flexibility to work from home while also providing opportunities to collaborate in person with the team when it adds value. There’s no fixed requirement for days in the office, instead, we focus on creating space for engineers to engage meaningfully, whether that’s in-person for whiteboarding sessions or remote for deep focus work.
• Work-life balance 🌴 - 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) each year, and enhanced family leave allowances.
• Competitive salary & equity 🏦 - We want people to have a serious stake in the business.
• Good kit 💻 - Your choice of the best laptop, running macOS.
• Team socials 🎉 - The opportunity to get to know each other outside of work.
• Company socials 🥡 - A chance to catch up and meet new colleagues weekly over informal office breakfasts Lunches and dinners on OakNorth - or at our free barista bar every day.
• Commuter support 🚲 - We offer the cycle to work and EV scheme.