Engineering Team Lead – FinTech worth £8B – Java, Spring, AWS

Role – Software Engineering Team Lead

Tech – Java, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Spring Boot, Kafka

Salary – £110,000 to £130,000 + stock options worth upto £60,000

Location/Remote – London/Hybrid

Are you looking for a role that combines your love for coding as well as people leadership?

Looking for a truly elite organisation with a career ladder you can climb with purpose?

Salt are recruiting for multiple Software Engineering Team Leads for a London based FinTech who are one of the fastest growing companies in Europe – this is a business that’s grown from 2>3,000+ in the last 10 years alone, with 13 million customers across the globe. Their biggest ever growth year was during COVID, so job security is excellent here!

This companies mission is to move money around the globe instantly , conveniently and eventually for free – this is going to be the best money transfer experience in the world.

They operate in the Spotify Engineering model of Squads & Tribes, and have nearly 200 in this department just in the UK alone – and whilst you’ll be joining as a Software Engineering Team Lead initially, there’s very real and rapid progression into Squad Lead and Tribe Lead in time.

Your role will be split between people leadership as well as hands on coding – so it’s important you’re adept and comfortable with doing both. You ideally will have experience leading people in cross-functional teams with a product mindset.

There are multiple teams available to lead, ranging from 6 reports to 14 – so depending on the level of management experience you have they can select the best team for you.

On the coding side they are looking for people who have designed scalable systems, using microservices architecture, Java, Spring Boot and AWS or other similar cloud hosting systems. They use Kafka for event-driven-architecture so any experience with this would be a bonus but not essential.

The salary for this Software Engineering Team Lead role ranges from £110,000 to £130,000 + stock options worth upto £60,000.

They also offer a wide range of benefits including 5% pension, 26 weeks maternity leave, 33 days holiday, work from anywhere in the world for 90 days, private medical insurance, and more.

They are based in London, so ideally would like to see you 1 day per week – however can be flexible for the right candidate and experience.

Roles like this are truly career defining, so contact me, Reuben Jenkins – rjenkins @ welovesalt.com

Role – Software Engineering Team Lead

Tech – Java, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Spring Boot, Kafka

Salary – £110,000 to £130,000 + stock options worth upto £60,000

Location/Remote – London/Hybrid