About the role

Staff Engineer working on digital lending tools for OakNorth Bank, empowering UK businesses with financial solutions through technology. Collaborating across teams to ensure effective engineering practices.

Responsibilities

As a Staff Engineer you’ll work with product and engineering across multiple squads to ensure the right trade-offs are being made and that dependencies and communication is managed effectively.
Staff Engineers are the most visible engineers in the organisation and demonstrate technical excellence and our cultural values across all squads and to teams across the wider organisation.

Have a strong technical background, including 8+ years of experience designing and engineering large scale systems.
Lead squads to sensible architectural decisions on the most complex technical problems.
Measure your success in terms of business impact, not lines of code.
Internalise the best ideas from across the organisation, humbly setting a vision that others can get behind.
Embrace DevOps culture: You build it, you run it.
Work well cross-functionally and earn trust from co-workers at all levels.
Prefer simple solutions and designs over complex ones.
Enjoy working with a diverse group of people with different areas of expertise.
You challenge the existing approach when you see the cliff edge racing towards us, but also get on board once the options have been debated and the team has made a decision.
You are comfortably organised amongst chaos.
You are a broad thinker and have the capability to see the potential impact of decisions across the wider business.
Utilise GenerativeAI: Leverage GenAI tools to increase productivity and enhance decision making processes within the role
Experience with AI/LLM integrations and Generative AI applications
Knowledge of intelligent document processing and NLP techniques
Familiarity with vector databases (e.g., Pinecone, Weaviate) and search platforms (e.g., OpenSearch, Elasticsearch)
Exposure to agentic workflows or orchestration frameworks for multi-step AI reasoning, and familiarity with MCP (Model Context Protocol)

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.