Lead Software Engineer

Lead Engineer - Real Time Risk & Decisioning Central London - Hybrid We’re looking to speak with exceptional engineers who have built systems where decisions need to be made in milliseconds - and getting them wrong has a real financial consequence. The environment is high scale, data heavy and technically complex, with engineering sitting at the heart of how the business makes decisions in real time. The company A venture backed FinTech scale up building infrastructure that helps financial institutions make faster, more accurate decisions around risk, transactions and customer behaviour. The business has already established strong product market fit and is now entering its next phase of growth, with continued investment into its core platform and engineering organisation. Engineering is highly visible internally and works closely with Product, Data and Risk. This isn’t an organisation where technology simply supports the product - the technology is the product. The next stage is focused on increasing scale, reducing decision latency and continuing to evolve the platform as transaction volumes and product complexity grow. The role This is a senior individual contributor role for someone who wants genuine technical influence without moving into people management. You’ll help shape the architecture behind real time decisioning systems operating across high volume financial products. That could include: - Designing low-latency, highly available decisioning platforms - Building systems used across fraud, credit, transaction risk or underwriting - Working with high-volume event streams and real-time data - Designing rules engines and decision frameworks - Improving system resilience, scalability and performance - Working closely with Data and ML teams to productionise models safely - Influencing architecture and engineering standards across multiple teams - Solving complex distributed systems problems where correctness really matters - Mentoring senior engineers and raising the technical bar across the organisation We’re particularly interested in people with experience across: - Real-time decisioning - Fraud or financial crime systems - Credit / underwriting platforms - Payments infrastructure - High-throughput distributed systems - Event-driven architectures - Kafka or similar streaming technologies - Cloud-native environments - Large-scale transactional systems You may currently be operating as a Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer, Distinguished Engineer or Senior Technical Lead. The specific language or framework matters less than the complexity of the systems you’ve built. Why it’s interesting This isn’t a role where you’ll spend 6 months arguing about coding standards. You’ll be solving problems that sit directly between engineering, risk and commercial performance. The systems you build will influence real customer outcomes, financial exposure and how quickly the business can launch and scale new products. There’s significant technical ownership, visibility with senior leadership and the opportunity to shape architecture at a genuinely meaningful level. If your background sits somewhere around real-time risk, decisioning, fraud, credit or high-scale financial systems, we'd be interested in speaking - whether you’re actively looking or not. Regrettably we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this particular role