Substantial software-engineering experience, including several years leading product engineering teams or multiple delivery streams.
Evidence of building or scaling engineering teams, recruiting strong technical talent and developing engineers and technical leaders.
Proven ownership of complex software products from architecture and delivery through production operations, with accountability for reliability, security and measurable business outcomes.
Strong system-design knowledge across distributed systems, APIs, event-driven workflows, relational data, caching, asynchronous processing, cloud infrastructure and observability.
Practical experience with a relevant modern stack. Our platform uses TypeScript, React, Node.js/NestJS, Fastify, PostgreSQL/Aurora, DynamoDB, Redis, AWS, containerised workloads, CI/CD and infrastructure as code. Deep expertise in every component is not required, but you must lead credible technical decisions across the stack.
Strong understanding of financial-data integrity, database transactions, decimal precision, reconciliation, audit logging, data retention and secure multi-tenant design.
Demonstrated application of secure SDLC, threat and vulnerability management, identity and access control, encryption, secrets management, incident response and disaster recovery.
Experience defining engineering metrics, service objectives, release controls and operational support models in high-availability environments
Demonstrated ability to assess and adopt AI-assisted engineering tools or AI-enabled capabilities with appropriate governance, privacy, security, evaluation and human oversight.
Experience managing external engineering partners or distributed teams, including delivery governance, quality assurance, knowledge transfer and risk management.
Strong commercial judgement and the ability to balance delivery speed, engineering quality, operational risk, cost and long-term maintainability.
Clear written and spoken English and the ability to communicate with senior business, product, risk and operational stakeholders across cultures.
A collaborative, low-ego leadership style with sound judgement, personal accountability, resilience and evidence-based decision-making.
A degree in computer science, software engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience

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Experience in fintech, banking, payments, custody, client-money, reconciliation, financial reporting or another regulated environment.
Familiarity with FCA expectations, CASS controls, ISO 27001 or comparable security and assurance frameworks.
Experience growing a new engineering centre or transitioning product knowledge and delivery ownership between organisations.
Experience with Amazon Cognito, ECS Fargate, S3, SQS, KMS, CloudFront, WAF, CloudWatch, Datadog, Prisma, BullMQ or TanStack.
Experience evaluating generative AI, agentic workflows, retrieval systems or machine-learning services for production use.
Relevant AWS, security, architecture, data or delivery certification

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