Lead Software Engineer

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!  📍London, Old Street | 🏢 2 Days in Office SRE at Capital On Tap 🌞 At Capital On Tap, we run a hybrid embedded SRE model. We aim to work closely with the teams within Capital On Tap to provide them the best support. Our main objective currently is to gain as much visibility into our platform's health while offering scalable solutions.  What You’ll be doing:  As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) you will help ensure our platforms are fast, reliable, and scalable. You’ll design, build, and monitor systems, prevent issues before they happen. Using SLAs, SLIs, and SLOs, you’ll guide feature launches while maintaining services that everyone can depend on. * Manage and automate Azure, Datadog, NGINX & Cloudflare * Develop and monitor Kubernetes and Serverless resources * Maintain infrastructure code with Terraform & CRDs / Crossplane * Improve systems, processes, and technologies; consult stakeholders to enhance platform performance * Getting involved in new application architecture & design processes * Design solutions to reduce toil, automate repetitive tasks and streamline workflows to reduce manual work and boost team productivity. * Create SLIs and SLOs; increase application visibility * Align with the Product team on SLAs and core service objectives * Collaborate with Platform Engineers for automated solutions and pipelines * Enhance user experience with infrastructure and pipeline optimisation  * Support CI/CD tools such as Azure Devops, Octopus Deploy and Flux to streamline software delivery * Lead incident troubleshooting to safeguard customer experience We’re Looking For 🔎 Required skills: * Experience in managing a public cloud (Azure advantageous) * Experience in Azure DevOps, Octopus, Flux or other CI/CD tools * Experience with Linux and Microsoft Systems * Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate with multiple teams in an agile environment * Proficient in contributing to IaC technologies involving expertise in writing, managing, and optimising infrastructure with tools such as Terraform and Pulumi  * Experience working with a cloud monitoring solution (advantageous to have DataDog)  * Experience with Kubernetes and Docker * Experience in at least one scripting language (Python, PowerShell, Go)   Interview Process 🤝 * First stage: 30-minute intro, CV review, and values with Talent Partner * Second stage: 60 minute “Tech Chat” with Team Manager * Final stage: 75-minute Technical Task + 30 minute Interview with Head of Platform Engineering 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.   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.)

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.)

Valarian

Valarian: Innovating for the new era of digital sovereignty Valarian Technologies is a dual-use technology company building critical tools to safeguard the future in an era of evolving global security challenges. We're rethinking security beyond traditional military domains, addressing asymmetric threats that impact our technological advantage, economic strength, and democratic institutions.   We build Acra – the platform foundation for everything we do as a dual-use technology company. The platform’s name, rooted in the Greek word for citadel (or, fortress), reflects the design and purpose of our infrastructure-agnostic secure enclaves: protecting critical data. Some of the government and commercial workflows include: increased operational resiliency for mission-critical systems and functions; enabling organizations to more quickly and widely adopt emerging technologies while ensuring the integrity of their intellectual property; information flow during disaster response scenarios, and zero-trust / least-privilege environments for M&A, attorney-client privileged communications, etc. And we’ve only scratched the surface.   At our core, we're driven by a shared mission and a belief in making a tangible impact on our world. Whether you join our London HQ or the wider global organisation, you’ll be a part of collaborative, high-performing teams, creating cutting-edge software, platforms, and infrastructure. The Role   We’re looking for a Compliance Lead to take ownership of compliance at Valarian as we grow. This is a high-impact, hands-on role where you’ll be the go-to person for all things compliance, building structure where needed while keeping things pragmatic and lightweight. You’ll manage and evolve our existing frameworks (e.g. Cyber Essentials, SOC 2), lead on planning and implementing our compliance roadmap, and help us meet the requirements needed to work with Enterprise and Government customers alike. You’ll work closely with leadership and product teams to ensure compliance supports how we build and inform secure development practices. What you’ll do Own day-to-day compliance across the business, ensuring our existing frameworks (CE/CE+, SOC 2) are maintained without adding unnecessary overhead Lead the implementation of ISO 27001 from the ground up, shaping how it fits a small, fast-moving team Identify and implement additional frameworks and controls required for UK government work Plan and run audits end-to-end, acting as the primary point of contact for external auditors Build and maintain a clear, pragmatic compliance roadmap aligned with company goals and customer needs Work directly with founders and leadership to prioritise compliance initiatives and manage risk Partner with product and engineering to embed compliance and security into product design early, not retrofitted later Create and maintain lean, effective policies and documentation that are actually used by the team Stay on top of regulatory changes and translate them into simple, actionable steps for the business Act as an internal advisor, helping the team understand what matters (and what doesn’t) when it comes to compliance What you’ll bring Experience owning or leading compliance in a small company or early-stage environment Strong knowledge of SOC 2 and ISO 27001, with hands-on implementation experience (especially building from scratch) Familiarity with compliance requirements for UK government or regulated industries Experience running audits and working directly with auditors without heavy external support Comfort operating as a leader, able to balance strategy with doing the work yourself A pragmatic, low-bureaucracy approach to compliance that fits a startup environment Ability to work closely with technical teams and influence product decisions Clear, concise communication, able to turn complex requirements into simple guidance Benefits Our benefits are designed to ensure our employees feel taken care of and are proud to be a part of the Valarian team. We are committed to consistently enhancing our benefit package, taking into account the overall well-being and needs of our teammates. Here are the key benefits accessible to all employees at Valarian Technologies: Equity – because you have the right to own what you’re building A competitive salary – because we value your unique skills Employer pension contributions – because you deserve a secure future Hybrid work setup – because everyone has different needs Rewarding company retreats and meetups that respect your work/life balance – because we love getting to know each other! Life at Valarian Our culture is built on inclusivity, compassion and flexibility – we want everyone to be empowered to achieve their goals at Valarian. The world is changing, and so is our way of working. If you want to join us in the London office – it’s quite nice! – you’re welcome to; and if you’d prefer to work remotely, that’s fine too. And as we build elegant solutions to simplify the complexities of business collaboration, we also simplify work life: contribute wherever and whenever allows you to be your best self. We trust each other to consistently raise the bar, and we challenge each other to continually reach new heights.