Head of Engineering and Innovation

2 weeks ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom YouLend Full time

About Us

YouLend is a pioneering global embedded financing platform, partnering with leading e-commerce sites, tech companies, and payment services providers such as Amazon, eBay, Shopify, Mollie, Dojo, Paysafe, Just Eat Takeaway, and Takepayments.

We enable our partners to offer flexible financing products, in their desired branding, to their merchant base. With YouLend's AI-driven credit risk assessment solutions, more merchants and SMEs than ever can receive fast, flexible, and affordable funding.

We operate in 9+ geographies across the UK, EU, and the US, shaping the future of financial services by delivering customer-oriented tech solutions that embed financing in customer journeys.

The Role

We are seeking an experienced and visionary Head of Engineering and Innovation to lead our platform engineering efforts, setting the strategic direction and overseeing the development and scaling of our technology platforms.

This senior leadership position requires a deep technical background, exceptional leadership skills, and a strategic mindset to ensure the robustness, scalability, and security of our infrastructure, enabling innovation across all product lines and ensuring exceptional user experiences.

Key Responsibilities

  • Define and implement the platform engineering strategy that aligns with the company's overall business objectives, ensuring scalability, performance, reliability, and security as the company grows.
  • Lead and mentor a highly skilled team of platform engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and collaboration, providing guidance, performance management, and professional development opportunities.
  • Oversee the design, architecture, and development of scalable, high-performance, and secure platforms, including cloud infrastructure, microservices, APIs, and data pipelines.
  • Ensure the platform is highly available and scalable to meet the demands of a growing customer base and evolving business requirements, implementing strategies to prevent downtime and manage disaster recovery.
  • Collaborate closely with product engineering, data science, security, and other cross-functional teams to drive cohesive, integrated solutions that meet both technical and business requirements.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 5+ years in a senior leadership role focused on platform engineering, infrastructure, or cloud services.
  • Deep experience in architecting and operating large-scale, high-performance platforms, including microservices, cloud-native applications, API-driven development, and distributed systems.
  • Proven experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and modern DevOps practices (CI/CD, containerization, orchestration with Kubernetes, etc.).
  • Exceptional leadership and management skills with a proven track record of building, scaling, and leading high-performing engineering teams.
  • Strong collaboration skills with the ability to work across technical and non-technical teams, excellent communication skills, and the ability to translate complex technical concepts to business stakeholders.

Salary

We offer a competitive salary of £120,000 - £150,000 per annum, depending on experience, plus a range of benefits including stock options, private medical insurance, EAP with Health Assured, enhanced maternity and paternity leave, and a comprehensive benefits package.

Why join YouLend?

  • Award-Winning Workplace: YouLend has been recognised as one of the 'Best Places to Work 2024' by the Sunday Times for being a supportive, diverse, and rewarding workplace.
  • Award-Winning Fintech: YouLend has been recognised as a 'Top 250 Fintech Worldwide' company by CNBC.

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