OakNorth - Director - Engineering

OakNorth is a profitable business that has supported the growth of thousands of entrepreneurs with a new standard of business lending.We're looking for people to join our engineering team 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.Job responsibilities:- Have a strong technical background, including extensive experience of delivering high uptime, high throughput systems in production. This is a transformation role, so experience dealing with legacy systems/teams and strategies to develop or replace them is highly advantageous.- Success in this role is transforming a traditionally structured team (frontend, backend, QA, Ops) into a flat hierarchy of small squads, each focused-on product areas and able to deliver reliably and quickly into production and through the process, embed core engineering principles such as: TDD, CI/CD, DevOps culture and feedback loops.- We're looking for a servant leader who understands how to create high performing teams focused on delivering business and user value. A strong focus on engineering excellence and team building as a means of delivery.Desired skills:- Embrace DevOps culture: You build it, you run it- Work well cross-functionally and earn trust from co-workers at all levels- Care deeply about coaching and growing your colleagues- 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're comfortably organised amongst chaos- You're a broad thinker and have the capability to see the potential impact of decisions across the wider businessTechnology we use:We're pragmatic about our technology choices. These are some of the things we use at the moment:- TypeScript, React, styled-components- Python, NodeJS, Java- PostgreSQL, BigQuery, MySQL- Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress, pytest- AWS, GCP- Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, GitHub, CircleCI (ref:iimjobs.com