We're looking for senior engineers who are particularly passionate about the back-end and data engineering to join our data platform team. We're looking for someone who can work - or is comfortable in learning to work - just about anywhere in the stack. You'd use both your generalist and specialist skills to better our products and our team. You'd join our data platform squad as an immediate contributor. On day 1, expect to write your first lines of code on your local machine, and get that code deployed to production. In month 1, expect to break something in production - and quickly fix and learn from it! Our squads are cross-functional, mission driven, and autonomous, solving specific user and business problems. We have several product squads - you would initially join data platform but may move around based on squad needs and your fit. What you'd work on ️ Our squads are cross-functional, mission driven, and autonomous, solving specific user and business problems. We have several product squads that you may rotate through but, initially, this role is on the Data Platform squad. The Data Platform squad look after all internal data products and the data warehouse. It's a new team which is driving the ONB data strategy and has many opportunities for exciting, greenfield projects. Technology We're pragmatic about our technology choices. These are some of the things we use at the moment: TypeScript, React, styled-components Python, NodeJS ️ PostgreSQL, BigQuery, MySQL Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress, pytest ️ AWS, GCP Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, GitHub, CircleCI How we expect you to work ️ We expect you to work in these ways, as well as encouraging and enabling these practices from others: 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, has the opportunity to 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. Where SaaS tools help us achieve more productivity and better quality results for a cheap price, we use these to automate low value tasks. How we expect you to behave ️ We embrace difference and know that when we can be ourselves at work, we are happier, more motivated and creative. We want to be able to bring our whole selves to work, have our own perspectives and know that we belong. As such, through your behaviours at work, we expect you to reflect and actively sustain a healthy engineering environment that looks like this: A wide range of voices heard to the benefit of all Teams that are clearly happy, engaged, and laugh together Perceivable safety to have an opinion or ask a question No egos - people listen to and learn from others at all levels, with strong opinions held loosely What makes working here better This role offers the opportunity to work closely with the team, requiring a minimum of 3 days per week in the office to foster hands-on collaboration and innovation. Work-life balance - 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) each year, and enhanced family leave allowances. Competitive salary & equity - We want people to have a serious stake in the business. Good kit - Your choice of the best laptop, running macOS or Ubuntu. Team socials - The opportunity to get to know each other outside of work. Company socials - A chance to catch up and meet new colleagues weekly over informal office breakfasts and dinners on OakNorth - or at our free barista bar every day. Commuter support - We offer the cycle to work & EV scheme About Us We're OakNorth Bank and we embolden entrepreneurs to realise their ambitions, understand their markets, and apply data intelligence to everyday decisions to scale successfully at pace. Banking should be barrier-free. It's a belief at our very core, inspired by our entrepreneurial spirit, driven by the unmet financial needs of millions, and delivered by our data-driven tools. And for those who love helping businesses thrive? Our savings accounts help diversify the high street and create new jobs, all while earning savers some of the highest interest on the market. But we go beyond finance, to empower our people, encourage professional growth and create an environment where everyone can thrive. We strive to create an inclusive and diverse workplace where people can be themselves and succeed. Our story OakNorth Bank was built on the foundations of frustrations with old-school banking. In 2005, when our founders tried to get capital for their data analytics company, the computer said 'no'. Unfortunately, all major banks in the UK were using the same computer - and it was broken. Why was it so difficult for a profitable business with impressive cashflow, retained clients, and clear commercial success to get a loan? The industry was backward-looking and too focused on historic financials, rather than future potential. So, what if there was a bank, founded by entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs? One that offered a dramatically better borrowing experience for businesses? No more what ifs, OakNorth Bank exists. 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Jul 05, 2025
Full time
We're looking for senior engineers who are particularly passionate about the back-end and data engineering to join our data platform team. We're looking for someone who can work - or is comfortable in learning to work - just about anywhere in the stack. You'd use both your generalist and specialist skills to better our products and our team. You'd join our data platform squad as an immediate contributor. On day 1, expect to write your first lines of code on your local machine, and get that code deployed to production. In month 1, expect to break something in production - and quickly fix and learn from it! Our squads are cross-functional, mission driven, and autonomous, solving specific user and business problems. We have several product squads - you would initially join data platform but may move around based on squad needs and your fit. What you'd work on ️ Our squads are cross-functional, mission driven, and autonomous, solving specific user and business problems. We have several product squads that you may rotate through but, initially, this role is on the Data Platform squad. The Data Platform squad look after all internal data products and the data warehouse. It's a new team which is driving the ONB data strategy and has many opportunities for exciting, greenfield projects. Technology We're pragmatic about our technology choices. These are some of the things we use at the moment: TypeScript, React, styled-components Python, NodeJS ️ PostgreSQL, BigQuery, MySQL Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress, pytest ️ AWS, GCP Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, GitHub, CircleCI How we expect you to work ️ We expect you to work in these ways, as well as encouraging and enabling these practices from others: 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, has the opportunity to 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. Where SaaS tools help us achieve more productivity and better quality results for a cheap price, we use these to automate low value tasks. How we expect you to behave ️ We embrace difference and know that when we can be ourselves at work, we are happier, more motivated and creative. We want to be able to bring our whole selves to work, have our own perspectives and know that we belong. As such, through your behaviours at work, we expect you to reflect and actively sustain a healthy engineering environment that looks like this: A wide range of voices heard to the benefit of all Teams that are clearly happy, engaged, and laugh together Perceivable safety to have an opinion or ask a question No egos - people listen to and learn from others at all levels, with strong opinions held loosely What makes working here better This role offers the opportunity to work closely with the team, requiring a minimum of 3 days per week in the office to foster hands-on collaboration and innovation. Work-life balance - 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) each year, and enhanced family leave allowances. Competitive salary & equity - We want people to have a serious stake in the business. Good kit - Your choice of the best laptop, running macOS or Ubuntu. Team socials - The opportunity to get to know each other outside of work. Company socials - A chance to catch up and meet new colleagues weekly over informal office breakfasts and dinners on OakNorth - or at our free barista bar every day. Commuter support - We offer the cycle to work & EV scheme About Us We're OakNorth Bank and we embolden entrepreneurs to realise their ambitions, understand their markets, and apply data intelligence to everyday decisions to scale successfully at pace. Banking should be barrier-free. It's a belief at our very core, inspired by our entrepreneurial spirit, driven by the unmet financial needs of millions, and delivered by our data-driven tools. And for those who love helping businesses thrive? Our savings accounts help diversify the high street and create new jobs, all while earning savers some of the highest interest on the market. But we go beyond finance, to empower our people, encourage professional growth and create an environment where everyone can thrive. We strive to create an inclusive and diverse workplace where people can be themselves and succeed. Our story OakNorth Bank was built on the foundations of frustrations with old-school banking. In 2005, when our founders tried to get capital for their data analytics company, the computer said 'no'. Unfortunately, all major banks in the UK were using the same computer - and it was broken. Why was it so difficult for a profitable business with impressive cashflow, retained clients, and clear commercial success to get a loan? The industry was backward-looking and too focused on historic financials, rather than future potential. So, what if there was a bank, founded by entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs? One that offered a dramatically better borrowing experience for businesses? No more what ifs, OakNorth Bank exists. 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Since 2015, we've backed entrepreneurs with over £12.5bn in funding, helping create 56,000+ jobs and 34,000+ new homes across the UK and US. We're dedicated to helping trailblazing businesses thrive, and our Client Onboarding team is integral to our growth. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a fast-paced, growing bank with a reputation for doing things differently. We're looking for self-starters and bold thinkers who want to pave their own career paths and are passionate about supporting the UK's best and brightest businesspeople. Role Overview As a Client Onboarding Manager, your role will involve onboarding UK & US corporate lending clients, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, and delivering a smooth and exceptional client experience. Responsibilities: Undertake AML CDD reviews and risk assessments on new UK & US corporate lending clients. Manage the AML CDD portion of commercial business loan origination. Communicate and collaborate effectively with customers and internal stakeholders to ensure customer delight. Manage customer expectations through effective communication, working efficiently while maintaining momentum. Operate in line with the Bank's Risk Management framework and relevant policies, escalating concerns appropriately. Mentor and supervise junior members of the Client Onboarding Team. Identify areas for process improvement to enhance efficiency. Support the Lending lead in transformational change initiatives aligned with our strategic plan. Leverage Generative AI tools to increase productivity and improve decision-making processes. Requirements: Minimum of 5 years' experience in the financial services sector, specifically in commercial lending for UK & US clients. Knowledge of complex corporate structures, including trusts and funds in offshore jurisdictions (BVI, Channel Islands, Cayman Islands, etc.). Excellent understanding of AML/KYC, CDD/EDD processes. Ability to learn quickly and work efficiently in a fast-paced environment with meticulous attention to detail. Strong interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal. Team-oriented mindset. Ability to conduct searches, analyze findings, and summarize results clearly and concisely. Proficiency in understanding and applying processes effectively. Consistent high-level task execution. Extensive knowledge of financial crime prevention systems and processes. Proven track record of responsibility, initiative, and delivery. Ability to prioritize, manage workflows, and multitask. Resilience and capacity to work under pressure and meet deadlines. Commitment to exceeding customer expectations. Benefits & Perks: Equity stake in the business. 25 days of holiday. Personalized benefits tailored to your needs. Subsidized private medical insurance with Bupa. Enhanced maternity and paternity leave. Wellbeing and social events. In-house Barista Bar in London office. Volunteering time off to support causes you care about. Salary sacrifice schemes (Cycle to work, nursery, gym, electric vehicle schemes).
Jul 04, 2025
Full time
Since 2015, we've backed entrepreneurs with over £12.5bn in funding, helping create 56,000+ jobs and 34,000+ new homes across the UK and US. We're dedicated to helping trailblazing businesses thrive, and our Client Onboarding team is integral to our growth. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a fast-paced, growing bank with a reputation for doing things differently. We're looking for self-starters and bold thinkers who want to pave their own career paths and are passionate about supporting the UK's best and brightest businesspeople. Role Overview As a Client Onboarding Manager, your role will involve onboarding UK & US corporate lending clients, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, and delivering a smooth and exceptional client experience. Responsibilities: Undertake AML CDD reviews and risk assessments on new UK & US corporate lending clients. Manage the AML CDD portion of commercial business loan origination. Communicate and collaborate effectively with customers and internal stakeholders to ensure customer delight. Manage customer expectations through effective communication, working efficiently while maintaining momentum. Operate in line with the Bank's Risk Management framework and relevant policies, escalating concerns appropriately. Mentor and supervise junior members of the Client Onboarding Team. Identify areas for process improvement to enhance efficiency. Support the Lending lead in transformational change initiatives aligned with our strategic plan. Leverage Generative AI tools to increase productivity and improve decision-making processes. Requirements: Minimum of 5 years' experience in the financial services sector, specifically in commercial lending for UK & US clients. Knowledge of complex corporate structures, including trusts and funds in offshore jurisdictions (BVI, Channel Islands, Cayman Islands, etc.). Excellent understanding of AML/KYC, CDD/EDD processes. Ability to learn quickly and work efficiently in a fast-paced environment with meticulous attention to detail. Strong interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal. Team-oriented mindset. Ability to conduct searches, analyze findings, and summarize results clearly and concisely. Proficiency in understanding and applying processes effectively. Consistent high-level task execution. Extensive knowledge of financial crime prevention systems and processes. Proven track record of responsibility, initiative, and delivery. Ability to prioritize, manage workflows, and multitask. Resilience and capacity to work under pressure and meet deadlines. Commitment to exceeding customer expectations. Benefits & Perks: Equity stake in the business. 25 days of holiday. Personalized benefits tailored to your needs. Subsidized private medical insurance with Bupa. Enhanced maternity and paternity leave. Wellbeing and social events. In-house Barista Bar in London office. Volunteering time off to support causes you care about. Salary sacrifice schemes (Cycle to work, nursery, gym, electric vehicle schemes).
We're looking for a Senior Analytics Engineer who's as comfortable working with stakeholders to answer complex business questions as they are building scalable data models under the hood. In this role, you'll partner closely with teams across the business to deliver high-impact analysis and insights - while also owning the creation and maintenance of the dbt models and metrics that power those insights. This is a hybrid role that blends data analysis, stakeholder enablement, and hands-on data modelling, ideal for someone who wants to drive both the "what" and the "how" of decision-making with data. The role Partner with stakeholders across the business to understand their goals and turn questions into data-driven insights Lead complex analyses and help teams make better decisions with clear, actionable recommendations Own and evolve the dbt models that feed our reporting layer - ensuring data is reliable, well-structured, and documented Build and maintain dashboards and visualisations in tools like Tableau Identify and resolve data quality issues through testing and proactive improvements Mentor junior team members and help shape our data modelling standards and best practices Technology We're pragmatic about our technology choices. These are some of the things we use at the moment: Python, DBT, Tableau ️ PostgreSQL, BigQuery, MySQL pytest ️ AWS, GCP Docker, Terraform, GitHub, GIT How we expect you to work ️ 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, has the opportunity to 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. Where SaaS tools help us achieve more productivity and better quality results for a cheap price, we use these to automate low value tasks. How we expect you to behave ️ We embrace difference and know that when we can be ourselves at work, we are happier, more motivated and creative. We want to be able to bring our whole selves to work, have our own perspectives and know that we belong. As such, through your behaviours at work, we expect you to reflect and actively sustain a healthy engineering environment that looks like this: A wide range of voices heard to the benefit of all Teams that are clearly happy, engaged, and laugh together Perceivable safety to have an opinion or ask a question No egos - people listen to and learn from others at all levels, with strong opinions held loosely What makes working here better This role offers the opportunity to work closely with the team, requiring 3 days per week in the office to foster hands-on collaboration and innovation. Work-life balance - 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) each year, and enhanced family leave allowances. Competitive salary & equity - We want people to have a serious stake in the business. Good kit - Your choice of the best laptop, running macOS or Ubuntu. Team socials - The opportunity to get to know each other outside of work. Company socials - A chance to catch up and meet new colleagues weekly over informal office breakfasts and dinners on OakNorth - or at our free barista bar every day. Commuter support - We offer the cycle to work & EV scheme
Jun 27, 2025
Full time
We're looking for a Senior Analytics Engineer who's as comfortable working with stakeholders to answer complex business questions as they are building scalable data models under the hood. In this role, you'll partner closely with teams across the business to deliver high-impact analysis and insights - while also owning the creation and maintenance of the dbt models and metrics that power those insights. This is a hybrid role that blends data analysis, stakeholder enablement, and hands-on data modelling, ideal for someone who wants to drive both the "what" and the "how" of decision-making with data. The role Partner with stakeholders across the business to understand their goals and turn questions into data-driven insights Lead complex analyses and help teams make better decisions with clear, actionable recommendations Own and evolve the dbt models that feed our reporting layer - ensuring data is reliable, well-structured, and documented Build and maintain dashboards and visualisations in tools like Tableau Identify and resolve data quality issues through testing and proactive improvements Mentor junior team members and help shape our data modelling standards and best practices Technology We're pragmatic about our technology choices. These are some of the things we use at the moment: Python, DBT, Tableau ️ PostgreSQL, BigQuery, MySQL pytest ️ AWS, GCP Docker, Terraform, GitHub, GIT How we expect you to work ️ 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, has the opportunity to 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. Where SaaS tools help us achieve more productivity and better quality results for a cheap price, we use these to automate low value tasks. How we expect you to behave ️ We embrace difference and know that when we can be ourselves at work, we are happier, more motivated and creative. We want to be able to bring our whole selves to work, have our own perspectives and know that we belong. As such, through your behaviours at work, we expect you to reflect and actively sustain a healthy engineering environment that looks like this: A wide range of voices heard to the benefit of all Teams that are clearly happy, engaged, and laugh together Perceivable safety to have an opinion or ask a question No egos - people listen to and learn from others at all levels, with strong opinions held loosely What makes working here better This role offers the opportunity to work closely with the team, requiring 3 days per week in the office to foster hands-on collaboration and innovation. Work-life balance - 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) each year, and enhanced family leave allowances. Competitive salary & equity - We want people to have a serious stake in the business. Good kit - Your choice of the best laptop, running macOS or Ubuntu. Team socials - The opportunity to get to know each other outside of work. Company socials - A chance to catch up and meet new colleagues weekly over informal office breakfasts and dinners on OakNorth - or at our free barista bar every day. Commuter support - We offer the cycle to work & EV scheme
OakNorth is a profitable business that has supported the growth of thousands of businesses. You'll lead the migration of a critical Java/React service to Python/React while maintaining the performance of our core banking platform and its microservices ecosystem. Over the next two years, you'll help scale our systems to manage increasing customer data and onboard a significantly larger user base by 2025 using a mix of modernized and new technologies. In this role, you'll also build and lead new engineering teams, fostering collaboration and driving technical innovation to overcome complex challenges. This is your chance to make a tangible impact on a rapidly evolving platform. The role As a Staff Engineer you'll work with product and engineering across multiple squads to ensure the right trade-offs are being made and that dependencies and communication is managed effectively. Staff Engineers are the most visible engineers in the organisation and demonstrate technical excellence and our cultural values across all squads and to teams across the wider organisation. Have a strong technical background, including 8+ years of experience designing and engineering large scale systems. Lead squads to sensible architectural decisions on the most complex technical problems. 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. 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 challenge the existing approach when you see the cliff edge racing towards us, but also get on board once the options have been debated and the team has made a decision. You are comfortably organised amongst chaos. You are a broad thinker and have the capability to see the potential impact of decisions across the wider business. Tech stack We're pragmatic about our technology choices. These are some of the things we use now: TypeScript, React, styled-components Java & Python PostgreSQL, BigQuery, MySQL Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress, pytest AWS, GCP ECS Fargate, Docker, Terraform, GitHub Actions How we expect you to work We expect you to work in these ways, as well as encouraging and enabling these practices from others: 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, has the opportunity to 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. Where SaaS tools help us achieve more productivity and better quality results for a cheap price, we use these to automate low value tasks. How we expect you to behave We embrace difference and know that when we can be ourselves at work, we are happier, more motivated, and creative. We want to be able to bring our whole selves to work, have our own perspectives and know that we belong. As such, through your behaviours at work, we expect you to reflect and actively sustain a healthy engineering environment that looks like this: A wide range of voices heard to the benefit of all Teams that are clearly happy, engaged, and laugh together Perceivable safety to have an opinion or ask a question. No egos - people listen to and learn from others at all levels, with strong opinions held loosely What makes working here better Flexible, Hybrid Working - A flexible, Hybrid team with a dedicated London office available 5 days a week to use as we want to. Work-life balance - 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) each year, and enhanced family leave allowances. Competitive salary & equity - We want people to have a serious stake in the business. Good kit - We run macOS. Team socials - The opportunity to get to know each other outside of work. Company socials - A chance to catch up and meet new colleagues weekly over informal office breakfasts and dinners on OakNorth - or at our free barista bar every day. Commuter support - We offer the cycle to work scheme and EV scheme.
Jan 29, 2025
Full time
OakNorth is a profitable business that has supported the growth of thousands of businesses. You'll lead the migration of a critical Java/React service to Python/React while maintaining the performance of our core banking platform and its microservices ecosystem. Over the next two years, you'll help scale our systems to manage increasing customer data and onboard a significantly larger user base by 2025 using a mix of modernized and new technologies. In this role, you'll also build and lead new engineering teams, fostering collaboration and driving technical innovation to overcome complex challenges. This is your chance to make a tangible impact on a rapidly evolving platform. The role As a Staff Engineer you'll work with product and engineering across multiple squads to ensure the right trade-offs are being made and that dependencies and communication is managed effectively. Staff Engineers are the most visible engineers in the organisation and demonstrate technical excellence and our cultural values across all squads and to teams across the wider organisation. Have a strong technical background, including 8+ years of experience designing and engineering large scale systems. Lead squads to sensible architectural decisions on the most complex technical problems. 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. 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 challenge the existing approach when you see the cliff edge racing towards us, but also get on board once the options have been debated and the team has made a decision. You are comfortably organised amongst chaos. You are a broad thinker and have the capability to see the potential impact of decisions across the wider business. Tech stack We're pragmatic about our technology choices. These are some of the things we use now: TypeScript, React, styled-components Java & Python PostgreSQL, BigQuery, MySQL Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress, pytest AWS, GCP ECS Fargate, Docker, Terraform, GitHub Actions How we expect you to work We expect you to work in these ways, as well as encouraging and enabling these practices from others: 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, has the opportunity to 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. Where SaaS tools help us achieve more productivity and better quality results for a cheap price, we use these to automate low value tasks. How we expect you to behave We embrace difference and know that when we can be ourselves at work, we are happier, more motivated, and creative. We want to be able to bring our whole selves to work, have our own perspectives and know that we belong. As such, through your behaviours at work, we expect you to reflect and actively sustain a healthy engineering environment that looks like this: A wide range of voices heard to the benefit of all Teams that are clearly happy, engaged, and laugh together Perceivable safety to have an opinion or ask a question. No egos - people listen to and learn from others at all levels, with strong opinions held loosely What makes working here better Flexible, Hybrid Working - A flexible, Hybrid team with a dedicated London office available 5 days a week to use as we want to. Work-life balance - 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) each year, and enhanced family leave allowances. Competitive salary & equity - We want people to have a serious stake in the business. Good kit - We run macOS. Team socials - The opportunity to get to know each other outside of work. Company socials - A chance to catch up and meet new colleagues weekly over informal office breakfasts and dinners on OakNorth - or at our free barista bar every day. Commuter support - We offer the cycle to work scheme and EV scheme.