Tech Lead | hybrid + remote United Kingdom​/office

Tech Lead Manager | UK (hybrid + remote)

Office:
United Kingdom

At Cleo, we're not just building another fintech app. We're embarking on a mission to fundamentally change humanity's relationship with money. Imagine a world where everyone, regardless of background or income, has access to a hyper‑intelligent financial advisor in their pocket. That's the future we're creating.

• Joining a cross‑functional product squad and collaborating with engineers, designers, analysts and other disciplines to build features that improve our users’ financial health.
• Leading a squad of 4-5 engineers, combining hands‑on technical contribution with line management, coaching and support for individual growth.
• Partnering closely with Product Managers, Staff Engineers and other technical leaders to shape a clear, feasible squad roadmap and deliver against squad OKRs.
• Defining and steering the technical direction for your squad, helping the team make strong trade‑offs around speed, quality, scalability and long‑term maintainability.
• Supporting effective delivery by creating clarity, unblocking progress, and ensuring the squad has healthy rituals and sustainable ways of working.
• Running regular 1:1s, giving clear feedback, and supporting engineers through development, performance conversations and growth planning.
• Staying close to the code and contributing hands‑on to our Ruby on Rails monolith, using tools and practices like testing, observability, AB tests, and feature flags.

You care deeply about improving the financial health of our users and align with our company values and engineering principles.

You’re excited by the opportunity to combine hands‑on engineering with people management, and you’ve helped teams deliver effectively while supporting engineers to grow.

• strong experience building backend systems with Ruby on Rails
• experience leading technical delivery for a squad or team
• experience line managing and coaching engineers through feedback, development and performance conversations
• good judgment when balancing delivery, technical quality and longer‑term investment
• a collaborative approach and the ability to work closely with product, design and engineering peers
• a track record of helping teams build healthy habits, improve ways of working, and deliver meaningful outcomes

Cleo is built as a Ruby on Rails monolith with a single React Native app frontend, utilising Type Script. We also leverage Python for machine‑learning services and PostgreSQL for our database, all hosted on AWS. Our CI/CD pipeline is fully automated, with production deployments happening on every merge via Kubernetes. Our backend engineers deploy multiple times a week, and we release our frontend app to Google and Apple for review at least once a week.

While we take a pragmatic approach, we place a strong emphasis on quality. Our code is peer‑reviewed, and we maintain automated testing using Minitest and CircleCI. We’re also actively working towards a more modular architecture, focusing on separating concerns to achieve all the benefits of microservices within a monolith, while progressively refactoring our code as we build new features. Everyone in the engineering team contributes to driving our technical strategy, voices & ideas from all levels are valued: we are all owners at Cleo.

• A competitive compensation package (base + equity) with 3‑annual reviews, aligned to our termly OKR planning cycles
• Work at one of the fastest‑growing tech startups, backed by top VC firms, Balderton & EQT Ventures
• A clear progression plan. We want you to keep growing. That means trying new things, leading others, challenging the status quo and owning your impact. Always with our complete support.
• Flexibility. We can’t fight for the world’s financial health if we’re not healthy ourselves. We work with everyone to make sure they have the balance they need to do their best work
• Work where you work best. We’re a globally distributed team. If you live in London we have a hybrid approach, we’d love you to spend one day a week or more in our beautiful office. If you’re outside of London,…