Engineering Lead

Title: Engineering Lead

Type: Full-time

HybridProduct EngineeringFull timeEL231025

Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

Workplace: Hybrid remote

Job Description:

Location: Cardiff 

Hybrid / Flexible Working (3 days in office, 2 days hybrid)

Salary: £60k  + up to 20% annual bonus + benefits

 

Stability, flexibility and the opportunity to work on greenfield projects within one of Europe’s leading financial experts, sound interesting to you?

 

LDMS - About Us

Founded in 2018, LDMS is part of the LC Financial Holdings group, a 3 pillar organisation that has over 950 employees across Europe. Together, we have an impressive track record of providing world class credit expertise that spans over 20 years.

 

We are a Fintech company focused on digital lending software, a market growing around 18% per year and set to be worth $27 billion by 2028. Given our expertise within the company and across the group we aim to be the leader in the space, and in order to do that we need a team of people who can not just write quality code but can think, create and challenge others to come up with the best solutions for our customers. We are an ambitious team with a pretty big ‘to do list’ including improving existing products, building new ones and delivering to new markets.

 

The Role 

As an Engineering Lead you will be part of the Engineering team at LDMS, working closely with multi disciplined teams in order to deliver world class financial software for LDMS’ partners and clients. 

The two main focuses for the role are to manage the delivery commitments of the team and the performance of team members.

 

Key Responsibilities

From time to time, the key responsibilities may change or be adapted to the needs of the business; however, the below gives an overview of the key focus areas. 

 

Delivery

• Working with the team and Product Owners to support the definition of features 


• Organising delivery ceremonies (refinement, planning etc)


• Driving a culture of continuous improvement


• Balancing the capacity of the team between product and technical debt improvements


• Supporting in the roll-out and deployment of features from an end to end perspective


• Ensuring that software has been developed to the agreed appropriate level of quality



 
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Line Management

• Regular structured 1-2-1s & setting quarterly SMART objectives


• Understanding and supporting career development


• Coaching & Mentoring



 
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Reporting

• Providing visibility on progress and issues to Head of Product Engineering

Facilitating and unblocking

• Single point of contact & escalation for the team


• Working closely with other Team Leads to ensure coordination of effort


• Facilitating team ownership of software, delivery & quality



 
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Technical Project Management

• Running technical initiatives in a structured way alongside product delivery

Knowledge

• Knowledge sharing, both intra and inter team


• Identifying training requirements


• Ensuring the team produce documentation to the required standard



 
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Requirements

 

Key skills we would see being useful for this role are: 

• A solid understanding of agile software development practices 


• Experience developing REST APIs with Java (preferably Java 8+) and Spring Boot


• Knowledge of SQL DB’s, preferably Postgres


• Experience working with modern Continuous Integration tooling such as Jenkins


• Experience with version control systems such as Git


• A proven track record of delivering software projects 


• Line management experience 


• Coaching & Mentoring


• Good verbal, written and communication skills 



 
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Benefits

 

• Discretionary Bonus (Up-to 20%) 


• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) 


• 1 day Birthday leave


• 1 day Charity leave 


• Private Health Insurance 


• EAP 


• Pension (3% / 5% contribution) 


• Salary sacrifice - (Bike & Electric Vehicle Scheme)



 
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