Tech Lead - Shared Backend Services
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iwocaFintech lending
Remote within the UKFull-TimeLead
Salary100,000 - 130,000 GBP per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- You’ve led engineers as a tech lead for around two years
- Required Skills
- PythonData AnalysisDjangoA/B testingDistributed Systems
Requirements
- Have led engineers as a tech lead for around two years while remaining hands-on in the code.
- Have built and operated backend services or frameworks used and contributed to by other engineering teams.
- Have reviewed other teams’ changes and shaped how they use shared services or frameworks.
- Know at least one backend language in depth.
- Have designed and operated distributed systems in production.
- Have set team priorities without a product manager, consulting the people who use the work to identify problems.
- Be able to explain the business costs or savings of technical trade-offs.
- Have used AI to deliver work that would not otherwise have been possible, and reviewed its output before release.
- Bonus: have built production services in Python with Django.
- Bonus: be comfortable analysing data and drawing defensible conclusions.
- Bonus: have built tools used by other teams to run split tests.
- Bonus: have worked at a fintech or another financial services business.
Responsibilities
- Lead the Funnel Platform team while staying hands-on in the code.
- Decide what the team builds, using input on priorities from customer journey team leaders.
- Own existing and new shared services from design through production.
- Shape how the team designs and tests shared services.
- Review changes other teams make to the shared services.
- Use data to influence customer journey teams and their leaders to support shared-service work.
- Line-manage two engineers and guide them to lead projects of their own.
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