Engineering Team Lead/Manager

Engineering Team Lead - ICS

Capital on Tap

We’re Capital on Tap 👋 💳 Capital on Tap started because small businesses were underserved. Big banks were slow, their products weren't fit for purpose, and small business owners often couldn't access what they needed. We set out to fix that. Today we're a financial platform - not just a credit card company. We offer a best-in-class business credit card, SME-focused spend management platform, a savings product that hit £1 billion in funds within its first year, and a growing suite of tools and financial products that make running a small business easier.  1,000+ employees, £20bn in annual card spend, 200,000+ customers, 17,000+ Trustpilot reviews averaging 4.7 stars, and we're profitable. We’ve done a pretty good job so far, but we’re just getting started!  🏢This is a Hybrid role, working from our London (Moorgate) Offices 2 days per week. The Team  The team handles all the critical, complex calculations for our Credit product: working out a customer's balance in real time, creating payment plans for those who are struggling, and managing the collections process. This requires high availability, data accuracy and performance at scale. What You’ll Be Doing As an Engineering Team Lead you build and lead a high-performing, healthy engineering team. You own the delivery of your team's quarterly objectives, the growth of your direct reports, and the day-to-day culture that lets great work happen. You stay hands-on, but your impact comes through your people and what the team delivers. You build a team that stays successful without you needing to step in. * Provide mentorship, constructive feedback, and foster a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement * Address underperformance decisively and advocate for your reports in calibration and promotion * Motivate the team, remove blockers, and track performance to ensure accountability * Work closely with Product, QA, and Technical Leaders to align on strategy and execution * Ensure clear, open communication in remote, hybrid, and in-person settings * Identify and mitigate risks, addressing challenges proactively * Own the holistic health of your team across people, process, and quality * Stay hands-on in software development, guiding engineers at a technical level * Advocate for the customer, balancing customer, team, and business needs in your decisions We’re Looking For 🔎 * A track record of leading and delivering complex projects * Experience leading or mentoring engineers, and the appetite to own the full management remit, from hiring and development through to the harder people conversations  * Extensive commercial experience with C#/.Net * Strong technical background in modern software development practices and cloud-based scalable architecture * A customer-focused, commercially aware and data-informed approach to your decision making * Ability to manage cross-team dependencies, collaborating effectively with Product, QA, and other stakeholders Diversity & Inclusion 🌈 We welcome, consider and encourage applications from anyone who shares our commitment to inclusivity. Join us in creating a space where authenticity thrives, and everyone can do their best work. Great Work Deserves Great Perks We try not to take ourselves too seriously (all the time) so we make sure our office is decked out with a pool table, arcade machine, beer tap, and a couple of office dogs thrown in for good measure. Check out our benefits: 🏥 Private Healthcare including dental and opticians services through Vitality ✈️ Worldwide travel insurance through Vitality 🎁 Anniversary Rewards (£250, £500, £750, 4-week fully paid sabbatical) 👛 Salary Sacrifice Pension Scheme up to 7% match 🏖️ 28 days holiday (plus bank holidays) 📖 Annual Learning and Wellbeing Budget 👪 Enhanced Parental Leave 🚲 Cycle to Work Scheme 🚂 Season Ticket Loan 💬 6 free therapy sessions per year 🐶 Dog Friendly Offices 🍫 Free drinks and snacks in our offices Check out more of our benefits, values and mission here. Interview Process 🤝 * First stage: 30 minute intro call with Talent Partner * Second stage: 60 minute "Tech Chat" & Values Interview with the Engineering Manager & People Partner * Third stage: 60 minute Code Pairing with our Engineering Team * Final stage: 60 minute Case Study with Product & Engineering + 30-60 minute Good to Great Interview with our CTO (onsite) Other Info 👍Check out our ‘Top Tips’ for interviewing. ✔️Keep updated on new job opportunities by following us on Linkedin. 📧Email careers@capitalontap.com if you have any questions. Excited to work here? Apply! If you’d like to progress your career within our fast growing, profitable fintech then click apply and we will aim to get back to you within 3 working days (during busy periods this could take up to 5 working days.)

Software Engineering Team Lead

M-KOPA

Join our growing FinTech Engineering team! We're recruiting a Software Engineering Team Lead to spearhead the delivery of our new loan origination architecture, compliance systems, and pricing platform - infrastructure that will power M-KOPA's next phase of expansion across Africa. THE IMPACT Your architecture will directly shape how millions of people access credit for the first time. We've already served over 7 million customers and unlocked more than $2 billion in credit since we began. Every system you design, every engineer you develop, and every decision you make contributes to a platform that's quite literally transforming financial inclusion across an entire continent 🌍 THE OPPORTUNITY 🎯 Mission-driven engineering: Your daily work enables affordable smartphones, digital loans, and financial services for Africa's Every Day Earners — people for whom traditional finance simply doesn't work. 🏆 Global recognition: Join a FinTech company named by TIME 100 as one of the world's most influential and by the Financial Times as Africa's fastest-growing company for five consecutive years (2022–2026). 🚀 Scale that matters: You'll be architecting systems that process over 2 million payments daily across five markets — and building for the next 10 million customers. 🌱 Environmental impact: We're carbon-negative, having avoided 2.155 million tonnes of CO₂ emissions across our product portfolio. What You'll Do At M-KOPA, you'll lead a team of backend engineers through both greenfield and legacy projects, owning the full software lifecycle from design ideation through to production and eventual decommissioning. Our engineering teams work under a true DevOps culture — with infrastructure as code, observability, automated testing, and continuous delivery treated as first-order concerns, not afterthoughts. You'll set architectural direction, partner closely with your Product Manager counterpart on roadmap planning and prioritisation, and serve as a servant leader who grows the people around you while shipping high-quality, impactful software. Technical Environment 💻 * Languages & frameworks: C#/.NET * Cloud: We work in Azure, and welcome experience across AWS or GCP * Architecture: Event-driven systems and microservice development - we use Azure Service Bus, and welcome experience with similar messaging technologies such as Kafka or RabbitMQ * Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Docker * Observability: Prometheus, Grafana * Engineering culture: DevOps, infrastructure as code, automated testing across all environments including production, continuous delivery Our Engineering Approach 🚀 * Full ownership: Teams own their solutions end-to-end - from inception through production support to decommissioning. * Servant leadership: We lead by coaching and enabling, not directing. * Quality by default: Observability, monitoring, and automated testing are built in from day one. * Continuous improvement: We foster a culture of innovation within a supportive, dynamic team environment. * Product partnership: Engineering and Product work as genuine counterparts — planning together, prioritising together, delivering together. What You Need We're looking for an experienced, low-ego engineering leader who brings both technical depth and a genuine passion for growing people. Required Experience: * Strong hands-on background in C#/.NET backend development * Proven experience with Azure, AWS, or GCP - we work in Azure but welcome experience across major cloud providers * Solid understanding of event-driven architecture and microservice development - we use Azure Service Bus, and welcome experience with similar messaging technologies such as Kafka or RabbitMQ * Experience leading or mentoring engineers in a collaborative team environment * Ability to set technical direction and provide architectural guidance * Comfortable working with Product to shape roadmaps and drive delivery The Team You'll lead a close-knit, focused engineering team with real end-to-end ownership over a significant part of the M-KOPA platform - including loan origination, compliance systems, and a new pricing engine. You'll have a dedicated Product Manager as your counterpart and operate with genuine autonomy over technical direction. LOCATION & BENEFITS * 🌍 Fully remote role in UK and parts of Europe within UTC -1 to UTC +3 time zones * 💼 Work with diverse teams across the UK, Europe, and Africa * 📈 Professional development programmes and coaching partnerships * 👨‍👩‍👧 Family-friendly policies and flexible working arrangements * 💚 Well-being support and genuine career growth opportunities OUR MISSION 🌍 We create financial inclusion for the traditionally excluded through a fair, flexible, customer-centric financing model. We strive to drive greater inclusion of women, youth, and low-income communities. OUR IMPACT 💚 Our technology has created measurable change: * Connected 📱: 2.5 million first-time smartphone users connected to the mobile internet * Prosperous 💰: 70% of customers use M-KOPA products for income generation, with 35,000 livelihoods created for agents * Green 🌱: 2.155 million tonnes of CO₂ avoided through clean energy and circular economy products, with over 127,700 circular economy products provided Ready to build the systems that create real-world financial inclusion while leading a talented team of engineers? Apply Now! WHY M-KOPA? At M-KOPA, we empower our people to own their careers through diverse development programs, coaching partnerships, and on-the-job training. We support individual journeys with family-friendly policies, prioritize well-being, and embrace flexibility. Join us in shaping the future of M-KOPA as we grow together. Explore more at m-kopa.com. Recognized four times by the Financial Times as one Africa's fastest growing companies (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026) and by TIME100 Most influential companies in the world 2023 and 2024 , we've served over 7 million customers, unlocking $1.5 billion in cumulative credit for the unbanked across Africa. Important Notice M-KOPA is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer committed to assembling a diverse, broadly trained staff. Women, minorities, and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply. M-KOPA explicitly prohibits the use of Forced or Child Labour and respects the rights of its employees to agree to terms and conditions of employment voluntarily, without coercion, and freely terminate their employment on appropriate notice. M-KOPA shall ensure that its Employees are of legal working age and shall comply with local laws for youth employment or student work, such as internships or apprenticeships.  M-KOPA does not collect/charge any money as a pre-employment or post-employment requirement. This means that we never ask for ‘recruitment fees’, ‘processing fees’, ‘interview fees’, or any other kind of money in exchange for offer letters or interviews at any time during the hiring process. Applications for this position will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Shortlisting and interviews will take place at any stage during the recruitment process. We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a suitable candidate is selected before the advertised closing date. If your application is successful M-KOPA undertakes pre-employment background checks as part of its recruitment process, these include; criminal records, identification verification, academic qualifications, employment dates and employer references.

Optical Engineering Manager

CoMind

At CoMind, we are developing a non-invasive neuromonitoring technology that will result in a new era of clinical brain monitoring. In joining us, you will be helping to create cutting-edge technologies that will improve how we diagnose and treat brain disorders, ultimately improving and saving the lives of patients across the world. THE ROLE: The Optical Engineering team at CoMind is responsible for the photonics systems at the heart of CoMind’s technology, designing and developing the laser interferometry platform that enables continuous, non-invasive measurement of human physiology parameters. The team spans optical system design, component selection and test, precision alignment, optical modelling, and integration with mechanical and electronic subsystems. As Engineering Manager for Optical Engineering, you will lead a team of optical engineers through the iterative design, build, and test phases to create designs which fulfil design input requirements and successfully complete design verification and validation campaigns. Working alongside CoMind’s contract manufacturing partners, you will ensure that design deliverables can be successfully transferred into serial production. This is a hands-on leadership role: you will drive technical decisions, own the optical workstream, and personally contribute to complex design challenges, while managing the team to programme milestones and design control processes. You will lead and mentor the team of optical engineers, and establish and maintain the development process and tools required by the team, championing a high standard of quality and performance. At CoMind, all team members work at least 4 days per week in the office, plus a flexible work-from-home day. This role can be based in either London (Kings Cross) or Bristol office. RESPONSIBILITIES: * Lead and develop a team of optical engineers, setting clear development goals, providing technical mentorship, and maintaining a high standard of engineering practice * Own the optical engineering function and lead the realisation of photonic and optical components from concept through to validated hardware * Personally contribute to design work, including optical modelling (Zemax, COMSOL, or equivalent), tolerance analysis, simulation, and design for manufacture and assembly * Drive design reviews, risk assessments, and V&V activities across optical subsystems, ensuring performance is robustly characterised before design freeze * Own the optical interfaces with mechanical, electronic, and manufacturing subsystems, working cross-functionally to resolve integration challenges * Establish and maintain optical design standards, toolchain choices, and documentation in line with CoMind’s QMS, ISO 13485, and IEC 60601-1 * Manage relationships with contract manufacturers and key suppliers for optical components and assemblies, supporting DFM and manufacturing readiness reviews * AI is fundamental to our culture — it’s not just a tool, but a core part of how we work, collaborate, and innovate. We expect all team members to embrace AI in their daily work and continuously find new ways to use it effectively SKILLS & EXPERIENCE: * 8+ years of experience in optical engineering, with at least 2 years in a team lead or engineering management role * Deep expertise in laser interferometry, coherent optical sensing, or closely related optical measurement techniques, with hands-on experience designing and validating precision optical systems * Proficiency with optical simulation and modelling tools (Zemax, COMSOL, or similar) and experience translating simulation outputs into validated hardware designs * Solid understanding of optical component technologies including laser sources, photodetectors, fibre optics, beamsplitters, optical coatings, and photonic integrated circuits (PICs) * Demonstrated ability to lead a technical team through the full product development lifecycle, from concept through to validated hardware * Experience in a regulated industry (medical devices, defence, semiconductor, or similar), with familiarity with ISO 14971, ISO 13485, and IEC 60601-1 * Strong cross-functional communication skills, with the ability to represent the optical team in system-level technical discussions with engineering, clinical, and regulatory stakeholders * Experience with manufacturing assembly processes or precision manufacturing at production scale for instrumentation and/or high-volume products NICE TO HAVE * Background in biophotonics, diffuse optical imaging, or optical coherence tomography * Experience with miniaturisation of optical systems for portable or wearable hardware * Familiarity with cleanroom assembly and precision alignment at manufacturing scale * Experience managing supplier relationships for optical components and sub-assemblies * Knowledge of FDA regulatory pathways for optical medical devices BENEFITS: * Company equity plan so all employees share in the success of the company * Salary-sacrifice pension scheme * Private medical, dental and vision insurance (medical history disregarded) * Group life assurance at 4x annual income * Comprehensive mental health support, including unlimited access to 1:1 sessions with trained professionals * Unlimited holiday allowance (+ bank holidays) and one week of remote working per quarter * Lunch voucher (£10) every day for JustEat and free dinner on those days where you need to work later * Twice weekly deliveries of fresh fruit and an extensive selection of snacks and drinks * YuLife subscription, allowing you to turn your daily steps and meditation into discounts at a range of stores DISCLAIMER - We use AI notetaking tools to transcribe interviews for internal review. 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