OakNorth - Director - Engineering

OakNorth is a profitable business that has supported the growth of thousands of entrepreneurs with a new standard of business lending.

We're looking for people to join our engineering team in building upon this success, as we grow to play a key part in redefining the future of business banking with next generation financial tools and products.

Job responsibilities:

- Have a strong technical background, including extensive experience of delivering high uptime, high throughput systems in production. This is a transformation role, so experience dealing with legacy systems/teams and strategies to develop or replace them is highly advantageous.

- Success in this role is transforming a traditionally structured team (frontend, backend, QA, Ops) into a flat hierarchy of small squads, each focused-on product areas and able to deliver reliably and quickly into production and through the process, embed core engineering principles such as: TDD, CI/CD, DevOps culture and feedback loops.

- We're looking for a servant leader who understands how to create high performing teams focused on delivering business and user value. A strong focus on engineering excellence and team building as a means of delivery.

Desired skills:

- Embrace DevOps culture: You build it, you run it

- Work well cross-functionally and earn trust from co-workers at all levels

- Care deeply about coaching and growing your colleagues

- Prefer simple solutions and designs over complex ones

- Enjoy working with a diverse group of people with different areas of expertise.

- You challenge the existing approach when you see the cliff edge racing towards us, but also get on board once the options have been debated and the team has made a decision

- You're comfortably organised amongst chaos

- You're a broad thinker and have the capability to see the potential impact of decisions across the wider business

Technology we use:

We're pragmatic about our technology choices. These are some of the things we use at the moment:

- TypeScript, React, styled-components

- Python, NodeJS, Java

- PostgreSQL, BigQuery, MySQL

- Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress, pytest

- AWS, GCP

- Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, GitHub, CircleCI