Lead Engineer, OakNorth
+ Equity
Digital bank for business loans and savings
Open for applications
Digital bank for business loans and savings
201-500 employees
Open for applications
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To serve and empower businesses in the Missing Middle, ensuring each and every one of them has the right tools, insights, and support at every stage of their growth journey with us.
Role
Who you are
- Have a strong technical background, including 7+ years of experience designing and engineering large scale systems
- Work well cross-functionally and earn trust from co-workers at all levels
- Prefer simple solutions and designs over complex ones
- Enjoy working with a diverse group of people with different areas of expertise
- You are a broad thinker with the capability to see the impact of decisions across the wider business
What the job involves
- We are looking for people to lead our engineering teams 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
- As a Lead Engineer you will be responsible for maintaining a high standard of technical excellence, keeping processes lean and efficient, and helping team members grow and develop their career
- Lead a squad of 4-6 Engineers
- Responsible for technical delivery and ensuring that the squad understands and focuses on the goal
- Coach and mentor engineers so that they are improving and engaged
- Measure your success in terms of business impact, not lines of code
- Internalise the best ideas from across the organisation, humbly setting a vision that others can get behind
- Embrace DevOps culture: You build it, you run it
- Collaborate 💬 - We work in cross-functional, mission driven, autonomous squads that gel over time. We pair program to work better through shared experience and knowledge
- Focus on outcomes over outputs✅ - Solving a problem for users that translates to business results is our goal. Measurements focused on that goal help us to understand if we are succeeding
- Practice continuous improvement💡 - We optimise for feedback now, rather than presume what might be needed in the future and introduce complexity before it will be used. This means we learn faster. We share learnings in blame-free formats, so that we do not repeat things that have failed, but still have confidence to innovate
- Seek to understand our users👂 - We constantly seek understanding from data and conversations to better serve our users' needs, taking an active part in research to hear from them directly and regularly
- Embrace and enable continuous deployment🤖 - Seamless delivery of changes into an environment - without manual intervention - is essential for us to ensure that we are highly productive; consider resiliency; and practice security by design
- Test outside-in, test first - TDD keeps us confident in moving fast and deploying regularly. We want to solve user problems, and so we test with that mindset - writing scenarios first, then considering our solution; coupling tests to behaviour, rather than implementation
- You build it, you run it⚙️ - We embrace DevOps culture and end-to-end ownership of products and features. Every engineer, regardless of their role, can lead delivery of features from start to finish
- Be cloud native☁️ - We leverage automation and hosted services to deliver resilient, secure services quickly and consistently
Salary benchmarks
Our take
In an era marked by the ongoing cost-of-living crisis and unprecedented disruptions, many companies have faced formidable challenges. However, OakNorth has emerged as a beacon of support, offering tailored financial solutions to help businesses navigate uncertainty and thrive in a rapidly changing landscape.
As exemplified by its recent $22M loan to Sticks n Sushi, OakNorth demonstrates a keen understanding of the unique needs and aspirations of its clients. By providing flexible financing options and strategic guidance, OakNorth allows businesses to pursue growth opportunities and overcome obstacles with confidence. moreover, the bank's collaborative approach fosters strong partnerships built on trust, transparency, and mutual success, creating a dynamic ecosystem where businesses can flourish.
Committed to championing entrepreneurship and driving economic prosperity, OakNorth aims to redefine the banking experience and empower businesses to achieve their full potential. As a trusted ally in times of uncertainty, OakNorth embodies the resilience, agility, and forward-thinking ethos that defines the spirit of modern entrepreneurship.
Kirsty
Company Specialist
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
27% female employees
26% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Feb 2019
$440m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Sep 2018
$100m
SERIES B
Total funding: $893.1m
Company benefits
- Equity. We want people to have a stake in the business so that all our interests are aligned
- 25 days holiday
- Personalised benefits – opt-in to what matters to you
- Subsidised Private Medical Insurance with Bupa
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
- Wellbeing and social events
- In-house Barista Bar in London office
- Support causes that matter to you – Volunteering time off
- Salary sacrifice schemes (Cycle to work, nursery, gym, electric car scheme)
Company values
- One team: We work together to achieve our goals, whether it’s across teams, countries, departments or people in a room
- Right ambition: Success is better shared. We channel the right ambition as individuals to meet our collective goals
- Customer delight: Our customers drive everything we do. We go beyond satisfaction to deliver delight at every opportunity
- 10x: Better is good, ten times better is great. We set ambitious goals and work to deliver outsized results
- Momentum: We’re go-getters so we take decisive action, at pace. It helps us turn dreams into accomplishments
- Zero base: If it isn’t working, we start from scratch to produce the best solutions for customers and colleagues
- Say it how it is: We’re open and transparent with our stakeholders and encourage honest and constructive input from our team
Company HQ
Carnaby, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Rishi Khosla
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously co-founded Copal, a financial research firm which they scaled to 3,000 employees and sold to Moody’s Corporation in 2014.
Joel Perlman
(Co-Founder)Started their career as an Associate at McKinsey & Company before co-founded Copal Amba with Rishi.
People progressing
Joined OakNorth as an Operations Intern in 2018. They have since worked as an Operations Analyst/Associate and now serve as a Senior Associate.
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