Engineering Team Lead

Engineering Team Lead

Location: Cardiff

Hybrid / Flexible Working

Salary: Up to £55,000 depending on experience + up to 20% annual bonus

About us 

Founded in 2018 LDMS are 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.

We are looking for an Engineering Team Lead to join our high performing team and play a key role in delivering world-class financial software for our partners and clients. In this role, you will manage multi-disciplinary teams, ensuring the successful delivery of projects and the performance and development of team members. You’ll be responsible for maintaining delivery commitments while adapting to the evolving needs of the business. This is an exciting opportunity for a leader who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is committed to driving excellence in software engineering.

Delivery

• Responsible for the cohesion, culture and output of your teams
• You own delivery within your teams, partnering with Product Owners to help identify and plan high-value deliveries; ensuring their successful delivery

• Driving a culture of continuous improvement 
• Agile champion, not just in process but in sprit
• Escalating and dealing with issues and risks proactively
• Communicating timelines and commitments to stakeholders
• Ensure engineers are free to commit as much time as possible to their engineering commitments
• Redirecting tasks and initiatives to other team members, for growth, balance or scaling

People

• Taking ownership of the well being and career development of each member of your teams
• Capable of leading one or more teams of multidisciplinary engineers independently
• Mentoring & Coaching both in terms of culture, delivery excellence and behaviours
• Identify training needs for future planning
• Regular structured 1-2-1s including the setting of personal objectives and goals
• Proactively manage performance and motivation within your teams

Technical

• Solid experience as a Software Engineer, at least to Senior Level
• Comfortable in a hands on environment, should the need arise
• A background in one or more of the following;
• Java 
• Postgres
• Spring Boot
• AWS
• The ability to read, understand and review code when necessary
• Supporting the Technical Lead in understanding best practice, for example; 
• SOLID
• XP
• Design Patterns
• TDD
• To understand the necessity for maintaining Tech Debt
• To defend or challenge team estimates
• Ensuring that software has been developed to the agreed appropriate level of quality.

Metrics & Reporting 

• Providing visibility on progress and issues to Head of Product Engineering 
• Recording and tracking of metrics / key performance indicators (a quantifiable measure of performance over time for a specific objective)
• Track team efficiency and quality of deliverables, adjusting processes and timelines to ensure high quality is delivered

What’s important to us?

It’s safe to say our passion is tech but we recognise that it’s the people that we hire and bring together who are at the heart of the organisation. Over the years we have acquired and recruited a pretty eclectic bunch with hobbies ranging from gaming to ultra marathon running, snowboarding to chess and hiking and climbing, however, what we do have in common are our values:

Teamwork

Merit

Develop

Honest

Impactful

Integrity

They may just look like corporate jargon but they mean something to us, and if you can relate to the above, get in touch as it there’s a good chance that you’d be a great addition to the team.

• Discretionary Bonus (Up-to 20%)
• 25 days Annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• 1 day Birthday Leave
• 1 day Charity Leave
• Private Health Insurance - AXA VIP comprehensive cover - optional
• EAP
• Pension (Salary Sacrifice 3%/5% contribution)
• Salary sacrifice bike and electric car scheme
• Monthly Socials
• Charity Events