Engineering Lead

Help build an engineering organisation from day one numi is partnering with a major UK payments business that is being carved out of a tier 1 bank to become a standalone technology company. It already serves a large customer base and handles a huge share of UK card payments every day. Now it is building the engineering organisation, and the platform, to serve them properly. The product engineering organisation will grow to 100–200 engineers across around 12 teams. It is at the very start of that journey. The leaders who join now will define how teams work, what good engineering looks like and the culture everyone after them joins. Two levels

• Engineering Lead: lead a single team and stay hands-on with the code
• Senior Engineering Lead: lead other leads and managers, accountable for a whole product area You don't apply for a level: it's calibrated with you through the process. What you'll do
• Build, hire and develop high-performing engineering teams
• Set engineering standards and expectations, without adding bureaucracy
• Partner closely with product leadership on what gets built and why
• Make pragmatic technical calls and stay close enough to the tech to challenge your teams
• Create a culture of ownership: you build it, you run it, you fix it The environment
• Kotlin and Rust back end, TypeScript and React front end, on AWS and Kubernetes
• Event-driven and real-time, continuously deployed (~60 deploys a day already)
• Cross-functional, outcome-aligned teams that choose their own methodology
• Quarterly planning across the whole organisation, with ruthless transparency What they're looking for
• You've led engineering teams in a cloud-native, distributed systems environment
• You've built from zero before: a new team, product, platform or function
• You're comfortable creating structure where none exists
• Technical credibility, with Kotlin or JVM experience a plus
• Low ego, calm and collaborative, with a genuine wish to build something lasting Payments experience is not required. The process Fourteen days from first conversation to offer: a call with numi, a remote interview covering technical and people leadership, a take-home exercise, then an in-person final. London, hybrid (2–3 days in office). Please note: visa sponsorship is not available. Interested? Apply here.