At OakNorth, we’re on a mission to empower the UK’s most ambitious businesses. Since 2015, we’ve lent over $18 billion across the UK and US, helped create more than 58,000 new homes and 36,000 new jobs, and supported hundreds of thousands of personal savers — all while fuelling the UK economy.
In Business Banking, we’re empowering high-growth businesses to scale at speed with our business current accounts, savings options, cards, payment solutions, and more.
We're looking for someone to lead the Grow squad in Business Banking - our mission is to empower customers to unlock meaningful value from day one, through an intuitive, connected experience that evolves with their business
The Role
- Lead a squad of 4-6 Full Stack Engineers.
- Responsible for technical delivery and ensuring the squad understands and focuses on the goal.
- Design resilient, scalable solutions for event-driven and distributed systems.
- Break down complex problems into incremental deliverables with clear architecture and domain boundaries.
- Measure your success in terms of business impact, not lines of code.
- Embrace DevOps culture: You build it, you run it.
- Prefer simple solutions and designs over complex ones.
- Influence architecture across the broader platform, making pragmatic, forward-thinking decisions.
- Coach and mentor engineers, guiding both their technical and professional development.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business needs into high-quality technical outcomes.
- Collaborate with designers on frontend work with attention to detail.
- You are a broad thinker with the capability to see the impact of decisions across the wider business.
- Utilise GenerativeAI: Leverage GenAI tools to increase productivity and enhance decision making processes within the role
Tech stack 🧱
- We're pragmatic about our technology choices. These are some of the things we use at the moment:
- 🗃 Python
- 🗄️ PostgreSQL, BigQuery, MySQL
- 🎨 TypeScript, React, styled-components
- 🔧 Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress, pytest
- ☁️ AWS, GCP
- 🚀 ECS Fargate, Docker, Terraform, GitHub Actions
How We Expect You To Work 👷♀️
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 is a truly hybrid role, offering engineers the flexibility to work from home while also providing opportunities to collaborate in person with the team when it adds value. There’s no fixed requirement for days in the office, instead, we focus on creating space for engineers to engage meaningfully, whether that’s in-person for whiteboarding sessions or remote for deep focus work.
- 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.
- Team socials 🎉 - The opportunity to get to know each other outside of work.
