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Lead the Engineering Frontier at a Game-Changing Fintech Revolutionizing SME Lending
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London, United Kingdom - Hybrid
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98% Remote- Europe
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Expires at anytime
Organisation Summary: Join Funding Circle, a trailblazing fintech company dedicated to empowering small businesses with seamless funding solutions. With a commitment to innovative data and technology, we're transforming SME lending and offering a dynamic, hybrid work environment that supports diversity, inclusion, and flexible working arrangements.
- Take charge of strategic technology outcomes within core services, driving engineering excellence.
- Steer the UK-focused domain with the potential to expand support to the US.
- Define and execute quarterly technology OKRs.
- Lead the execution of the product roadmap, advancing towards the target state architecture and fulfilling business goals.
- Proven experience in technical leadership with the ability to strategize and solve complex problems.
- Strategic thinking and alignment with broader technology and business strategies.
- Strong collaborative skills and a boundary-less approach to creating solutions and taking ownership.
The Director of Engineering, Core will focus on Funding Circle’s multi-product capabilities by evolving our core services across Platform, Customer and Underlying. This role will initially be UK-focused, with a view to evolve to support the US.
You will be accountable for achieving the strategic technology outcomes with your domain across technology & architecture, engineering excellence and talent & ways of working. You will also be accountable for the definition and execution of quarterly technology OKRs, and for the successful execution of the prioritised product roadmap to progress towards target state architecture and deliver business objectives.
We are looking for an experienced technical leader who is confident in leading teams to execute against strategies, while also being comfortable diving into technical problems. A strategic thinker who can set long term direction for the domain that is aligned to broader technology and business strategies. A collaborative problem solver who takes ownership, takes the lead on creating solutions and operates without boundaries.
Our mission is to build the place where small businesses get the funding they need to win. We do this by uniting cutting-edge data and technology to deliver an unbeatable customer experience. With a decade of expertise under our belt, we've built a game-changer of a platform that's reshaping the landscape of SME lending.
We offer hybrid working, with 1-2 days per week based in the office. When you’re in the office you can take advantage of our free barista and subsidised lunches through JustEat and we will help support your home working set-up. We support flexible working arrangements.
We celebrate and support the differences that make you, you. We’re proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace and affirmative-action employer. We truly believe that diversity makes us better.
