About Lendscape
For 50 years, we have been helping our clients deliver better business financing.
Today, our products and services are used by over 130 banks and finance providers across 50 countries. Our flexible end-to-end platform offers them everything they need to provide an extensive range of financing products, smoothly and securely. From institutional lenders to SME specialists, our software gives our clients the agility to create new and innovative finance products that help their customers thrive.
We continue to grow and evolve, building on our heritage while keeping pace with the changing demands of the financial software sector.
The role
In this newly created role you will be a key member of both the Executive Team and the Senior Management Team, reporting directly to the CEO.
You will be accountable for our technology vision, strategy and execution, working closely with our Head of Engineering & Head of Technical services in leading our Software Engineering & Application management teams (currently c 100 colleagues with the goal to be 130 colleagues within 12 months).
What you'll be doing
- Create and foster an environment conducive to innovation, high productivity, and high quality
- Lead the definition of our technology direction in collaboration with the technical talent within Lendscape
- Support the Product Team in its development of the product roadmap with definition and understanding of technology items and general technical input
- Provide technical leadership that improves the functionality, reliability, scalability, and security of the company s software products
- Grow and scale the team by recruiting leading technical talent - building regional and international development hubs alongside current London based team
- Oversee and help to implement all functional areas of technology including software design and development, enterprise architecture, quality assurance and testing, deployment, technical support and systems administration
- Be accountable for the organisational and software plan required to fulfil our business and technology strategies
- Drive a software development lifecycle process and culture that ensures the appropriate balance in which quality products are produced in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
- Ensure sound architectural designs are implemented and advocate for best practices and processes
- Create a strong internal culture to manage technology projects with accurate time estimates, adherence to deadlines, and strong communication to stakeholders
- Work in partnership with functional teams, in particular Sales, Product and Customer Success as a technology partner in forwarding business capabilities
- Balance priorities between R&D investment and chargeable client work, ensuring budgets are achieved
- Communicate technology strategy to customers, partners and investors
About you We are all about colleague growth and development - Previous experience as a CTO is not a prerequisite, we will consider an ambitious and experienced Head/VP of Engineering looking for the step up.
Technology
- Dynamic leader within a high-growth enterprise software organisation
- Financial software experience a major plus
- Extensive experience with Java + React + REST APIs + SQL. Experience with AWS + Docker desirable.
- Experience of frontend design + agile development + RDBMS. Experience with microservice architectures + API management + Spring framework desirable.
- A Bachelor's or Master's degree in a Computer Science related field is desirable
Customers and prospects
- Expert in presenting technology practices and vision to customers and prospects.
Leadership
- Management experience leading multi-site technology teams in a SaaS or subscription enterprise software business.
- Ability to lead managers and successfully manage global, distributed teams across cultures, lines of business, and geographies.
- Possesses a strong management presence and leadership ability, with communication and interpersonal skills that inspire and motivate leaders and teams.
- Able to collaborate across the organization and with external stakeholders
Change
- Able to be flexible and agile in responding to evolving business priorities and dealing with ambiguity
An ability to travel if needed is desirable.
Your reward and benefits
Our state of the art offices are moments from the train station in Wimbledon, South West London. Our space offers an eco-friendly, agile workspace for us to collaborate and win together. Colleagues are now coming into the office a minimum of once a week to ensure that our company culture continues to flourish.
- Annual bonus opportunity
- Equity potential
- Pension scheme - 4% company contribution increasing to 5% with length of service
- 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day a year to 30 days
- Private Medical Cover with option to add family members
- Health Cash Plan - Claim money back for everyday healthcare needs
- Travel & life insurance
- Corporate Gym Membership & Gympass
- Upto 5 days a year for volunteering, 3 days paid
- Cycle2work scheme
- Electric car salary sacrifice scheme