Lead Software Engineer

Job Title

Lead Software Engineer

£84,624 - £105,780

London

Full‑time

Hybrid: at least two days a week or 40% of time at one of our office sites. Disability adjustments are available.

Lead and develop innovative payment solutions and services as part of the Enterprise & Accounting Lab, supporting accounting, reconciliation, and payment integration capabilities across core payment services.

• Provide technical leadership across business‑critical payment services (e.g. Faster Payments, CHAPS, COP), shaping architecture and delivery beyond a single team.
• Own end‑to‑end technical outcomes at team or lab level, accountable for quality, resilience, and delivery predictability.
• Lead complex design decisions for low‑latency, resilient, secure, and compliant payment solutions.
• Manage cross‑team dependencies, technical risks, and delivery impediments impacting the Payments Services Platform.
• Balance customer outcomes, regulatory risk, and platform maintainability when making delivery decisions.
• Drive Dev Ops maturity across teams through improvements to CI/CD, monitoring, automation, and quality controls.

• Strong understanding of an entire application stack and experience with microservices technologies (Spring Boot, JSON, Kafka, RESTful APIs, web services).
• Proven experience designing and delivering resilient, scalable, secure payment services in regulated environments.
• Systems and solution design capability, evidence of leading technical decisions beyond a single feature.
• Technical leadership: setting engineering standards, reviewing designs and code, improving quality and Dev Ops maturity.
• Expertise in modern microservices, APIs, event‑driven architectures and non‑functional requirements such as latency, availability, and recoverability.
• Live service health ownership: incident response, root‑cause analysis, preventative resilience improvements.
• Ability to scale technical impact by mentoring engineers, influencing stakeholders, and improving platform‑level ways of working.
• Technical knowledge of Spring Boot, Camel, Maven, Git Hub, Jenkins, JSON, Kafka/WMQ, REST APIs, SQL, Docker, Kubernetes.
• Experience with cloud‑based tools (IBM Cloud Private, Google GCP, Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS).

• Generous pension contribution up to 15%
• Annual performance‑related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits adapted to lifestyle (discounted shopping)
• 30 days holiday, plus bank holidays
• Well‑being initiatives and generous parental leave policies

We are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion for all and offer reasonable adjustments for disability, neurodivergent and other conditions.