Lead Software Engineer

Company

Stream was founded with the mission to provide fair financial tools to the everyday worker. Offered through destination employers like Greene King, Bupa, Burger King, Asda and the NHS, our award‑winning platform helps over three million people to earn, learn, save, spend and borrow on their own terms, all in one smartphone app.

Stream is unique: VC backed and growing at scale, but with a social conscience. Some of the world’s leading impact funds were our founding investors, and we operate on a social charter, which means every product and service we create must measurably improve financial wellbeing.

You’d be joining a team of over 200 passionate, ambitious people across Europe and the USA, building a category‑defining product, and united by that same mission.

We’re looking for Lead Engineers to join our cross‑functional squads, working on products such as Earned Wage Access, Workplace Loans, and Workplace Wealth. The key technologies we use are Claude Code, Python, Typescript, React, Svelte, Postgre

SQL, Snowflake and AWS. Stream has a genuine focus on moving quickly, avoiding waste, and getting engineers’ work into the hands of users in the smallest amount of time possible.

• You’re a great engineer, a good communicator, and have good product sense.
• You use the latest AI tools.
• You take responsibility for the quality of your own work.
• You’re driven and humble.

Dependent on experience and seniority, ranging from £100,000-£150,000, plus an equity vesting schedule.

Ability to work from our London office 3 days a week, blending with remote work.

• 25 Days Annual Leave in addition to public holidays (up to 5 day rollover), as well as flexible time off allowances for any ad‑hoc childcare/family/caring needs.
• 24 weeks’ paid Maternity Leave and 4 weeks paid Paternity Leave for employees with over 12 months service.
• Special Leave for In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) and other fertility treatments.
• Sabbatical scheme.
• Paid leave to volunteer.
• Private Healthcare including comprehensive mental and physical healthcare.
• Salary sacrifice to pension, as well as bonus exchange to Pension: reap even more rewards of any bonus by paying into your pension & save on Tax and NI + added compound growth.
• Enjoy savings with our electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme.
• Season Ticket Loan.
• Access to Salary Sacrifice Schemes via Thanks Ben: the benefits marketplace. Choose the benefits you want, when you want. Pay less tax, receive more value, including:
  Workplace nurseries, Cycle to Work, Home and Tech Scheme and more.
• The best benefit of all, access to Stream!

At Stream we celebrate and support our differences. We know employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, our product and our community to flourish. Stream is an equal opportunity workplace. We are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity/expression, or veteran status.