Lead Software Engineer

Prolific

SENIOR PRODUCT ENGINEER  Engineering    Prolific Prolific is not just another player in the AI space – we are the architects of the human data infrastructure that's reshaping the landscape of AI development. In a world where foundational AI technologies are increasingly commoditized, it's the quality and diversity of human-generated data that truly differentiates products and models.   The role We’re looking for Senior Software Engineers with a ‘product builder’ mind-set to join our team and take a pivotal role in the development and guidance of our product. As a ‘t-shaped’ engineer, you will bring a broad practical knowledge across various areas of software development, complementing and supporting our growing team whilst likely having a deeper specialism in front or backend. This is an exciting opportunity to leverage your existing skills, experience, and knowledge to significantly influence the trajectory of our product as we aim to revolutionize research.   What you’ll bring to the role * Deep understanding of modern web applications * Experience building Typescript/Javascript applications and using NoSQL databases * Experience using Python * Knowledge of Event-Driven Architecture * Experience using AWS (Serverless) and/or GCP * Understand the importance of driving quality into code through test automation * Have supported applications in production, with demonstrable experience of good observability practices within a full stack environment. (e.g. Rum, Tracing) * Have worked in a collaborative environment with strong engineering practices and know what good engineering looks like * Care about the product life cycle and are customer value focused * Understand the value of continuous, iterative improvement using data to drive decisions and a culture of feedback * Passionate about software development with an appetite for learning and self-improvement   What you’ll be doing in the role  * As a member of a cross-functional, stream-aligned team, you will work collaboratively with the teams’ engineering manager, product manager, designer, and up to 4-5 other engineers, including a tech lead * Using agile software development practices and a product mindset, you will work as a team to plan, build and support software that our customers love * You will be highly self-motivated and energetic and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment with a bias for action * Collaborating with teams outside of product engineering, working closely with customers and understanding their needs * Be happy working in all the major cloud providers: AWS, GCP & Azure * With a You Build It, You Run It mindset, you will have intimate knowledge of our products from code commit through to production operation * Supporting production systems with monitoring tools such as Datadog * Strive for stable systems observability * You will champion our principles, fuel a growth mindset by getting involved in communities and help improve our engineering culture * Pushing the boundaries, questioning the status quo, ensuring what we are doing and what we are building has high value and impact for our users   Key Technologies  * Cloud Platforms: Google Cloud Platform and AWS * Programming Languages: Python, JavaScript, and TypeScript * Frameworks: Vue.js, Django Rest Framework, Container-based and Serverless architectures * Databases: MongoDB and DynamoDB * DevOps and Monitoring: CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, Celery, EventBridge and DataDog   Why Prolific is a great place to work We've built a unique platform that connects researchers and companies with a global pool of participants, enabling the collection of high-quality, ethically sourced human behavioral data and feedback. This data is the cornerstone of developing more accurate, nuanced, and aligned AI systems. We believe that the next leap in AI capabilities won't come solely from scaling existing models, but from integrating diverse human perspectives and behaviors into AI development. By providing this crucial human data infrastructure, Prolific is positioning itself at the forefront of the next wave of AI innovation – one that reflects the breath and the best of humanity. Working for us will place you at the forefront of AI innovation, providing access to our unique human data platform and opportunities for groundbreaking research. Join us to enjoy a competitive salary, benefits, and remote working within our impactful, mission-driven culture.   Links to more information on Prolific Benefits  External Handbook  Website  Youtube    Privacy Statement By submitting your application, you agree that Prolific may collect your personal data for recruiting and global organisation planning. Prolific's Candidate Privacy Notice explains what personal information Prolific may process, where Prolific may process your personal information, its purposes for processing your personal information, and the rights you can exercise over Prolific use of your personal information.

Salary Finance

* Are you excited by the idea of joining a high-quality, talented team within a game-changing FinTech company? * Do you want to tackle major problems in the consumer credit industry with a socially-responsible solution? If so, we’d love to hear from you!  About Blenheim Chalcot: Blenheim Chalcot is a global venture builder headquartered in London. With over 26 years of innovation, we've been at the forefront of creating some of the most groundbreaking GenAI-enabled companies. Our ventures lead the charge in digital disruption across a spectrum of industries, from FinTech to EdTech, GovTech to Media, and beyond. Our global presence spans the US, Europe, and Southeast Asia, with a portfolio that employs over 3,000 individuals, manages assets exceeding £1.8 billion, and boasts total portfolio sales of over £500 million.   SalaryFinance and Blenheim Chalcot: SalaryFinance was founded and is backed by Blenheim Chalcot, the UK's leading digital venture builder. This powerful partnership provides us with a unique advantage, combining our deep expertise in financial wellbeing with the strategic support of a company renowned for building and scaling disruptive digital businesses. As a key part of the Blenheim Chalcot portfolio, we benefit from a vibrant ecosystem of collaboration and innovation, placing us at the forefront of the FinTech revolution. About SalaryFinance: SalaryFinance is an award-winning FinTech business with a social purpose: to help employees take control of their finances. We launch with employers as an employee benefit and help people understand their money better, get out of debt faster, and save for their future. Launched in 2015, we are scaling fast and moving in exciting directions. We have been included in KPMG’s Global Fintech 100, listed at the top of Forbes' list of socially-responsible startups, and profiled by the Financial Times and The Times. Co-founded by entrepreneurs Asesh Sarkar, Daniel Shakhani, and Dan Cobley (former Head of Google UK & Ireland), we are proud to be authorised by the FCA and making a meaningful impact on people’s lives.   The Role: We’re looking for an exceptional Senior Software Engineer to join us. You will be responsible for building and maintaining the SalaryFinance Platform, playing a pivotal role in shaping a market-leading, API-enabled payroll lending business. As a thoughtful, outgoing, and positive Senior Developer with a .NET focus, you will be an integral part of our wider team, ensuring our platform is robust, secure, and scalable. This is a "hands-on" role where you will balance new feature development with platform architecture and mentor others in the latest technology frameworks. Key Responsibilities: * Platform Architecture & Development: Lead the design and development of new features while maintaining and enhancing the current feature set through world-class, tested, and secure code. * Agile Collaboration: Work cross-functionally within a SCRUM team to translate business requirements into technical specifications and scalable solutions. * Innovation: Research, review, and recommend future application innovations and technical solutions to keep SalaryFinance at the cutting edge. * Defect Resolution: Collaborate with the Operations team to diagnose and resolve complex defects identified during the application lifecycle. * DevOps & Security: Assist in application lifecycle management, including CI/CD, scalability, and application security (OWASP practices). * GenAI Integration: Explore and implement new ways of working utilizing our GenAI hub to drive engineering efficiency and product innovation.   What are we looking for? We hire for potential and expertise—you should apply if you: * Have 5+ years of Full Stack experience: Deep expertise in web development with a strong customer focus and an excellent understanding of secure development practices. * Are a .NET Specialist: Strong skills in ASP.NET Core, C#, and RESTful Web Services (WebAPI). Experience with CSLA (.Net business objects) is a plus. * Are proficient in Vue.js: Hands-on experience with Vue.js 3 (Composition API, Nuxt.js) and a solid understanding of Vue.js 2 (Options API, Vuetify) for legacy support and refactoring. * Understand Data & Architecture: Advanced scripting skills in MySQL and experience with tiered system architectures, microservices, and service-oriented architectures. * Are an Agile Champion: Proven experience working in a SCRUM environment and familiarity with JIRA and modern DevOps practices. * Bring the Right Attitude: You are an open-minded, self-motivated team player who stays calm under pressure and possesses a "hands-on" approach to learning. Nice to haves: * A degree in Computer Science or a similar engineering discipline. * Experience with Linux Server environments. * A background in Financial Services systems and associated regulations.   Our Values and Principles: You will be able to demonstrate examples of our core principles: * Seek inclusion & diversity: We create an environment where everyone feels welcome. * Work Hard, Work Well, Work Together: We take responsibility for making things happen and help colleagues in need. * Grow: We are proactive, curious, and unafraid of failure. * Customer at the heart: We care about the customer and love building products that solve their problems. * Candour with caring: We deliver candid feedback with kindness. What We Can Offer You: * Competitive salary. * Be part of Blenheim Chalcot, learning from the incredible talent in a leading global venture builder. * Flexible Benefits. * 24 days of paid holiday  * A collaborative, entrepreneurial team environment that is changing lives for the better. Blenheim Chalcot is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer. Diversity is one of our core values, thus making it core to our business. We strive to maximize the diversity of our workforce and welcome applications from everyone. We encourage diversity through perspective, background, identity, and thought whilst also fostering an environment where everyone can express themselves regardless of your race, religion, sex, gender, colour, national origin, disability, or any other applicable legally protected characteristic. We are committed to continuing to nurture an inclusive environment and building a diverse workforce.

Moniepoint

Who we are Moniepoint Inc. is Africa’s all-in-one financial platform, helping 20 million businesses and individuals access seamless payments, banking, credit, cross-border, and business management tools each month.  As Nigeria’s largest merchant acquirer, we power most of the country’s point-of-sale (POS) transactions. Through our subsidiaries, Moniepoint Inc. processes over $250 billion in digital payment transaction value annually. About the role As a Head of Engineering, you will play a pivotal role in overseeing the entire technical landscape of our engineering organization. You will guide and lead engineering managers and their teams while ensuring we are building scalable, secure, and innovative architectures. Working closely with business leaders and engineering managers (EMs), you will help align our technical vision with business goals and ensure a smooth pipeline from coding to deployment. The role is hands-on, requiring a mix of leadership, technical expertise, and operational excellence. We are looking for someone who has a strong engineering background, leadership skills, and a passion for fostering collaboration and trust within teams. You will be accountable for setting technical standards, addressing technical debt, mentoring teams, and ensuring the scalability and security of the product's architecture. In addition, you will oversee team development, recruitment, and performance management to build high-performing teams capable of delivering results on time. What you’ll get to do * Contribute to and drive the company-wide technology strategy, ensuring the platform and broader business systems are prepared to scale reliably across markets, products, and growing transaction volumes. * Own the technical strategy across the ecosystem, aligning architecture, infrastructure, and delivery with company goals for reliability, scalability, security, and regulatory compliance. * Guide architectural and solution design decisions across teams, removing technical roadblocks for Engineers, and ensuring robust, future-proof system and software architecture. * Build, lead, and scale multiple high-performing engineering teams, including managers and senior individual contributors. * Strengthen team capacity and capability through proactive mentorship, structured career development, succession planning, and rigorous performance management. * Drive hiring strategy and org design to support near-term and medium-term growth of the engineering organization. * Establish and continuously improve end-to-end observability, monitoring, alerting, and incident management frameworks to support high system availability (targeting 99.9999%+ uptime). * Improve software reliability across the platform by implementing strong operational excellence practices and incident response mechanisms. * Set and uphold high standards for engineering excellence, including code quality, testing, QA automation, documentation, and CI/CD pipeline maturity. * Proactively manage and reduce technical debt while leading company-wide initiatives to improve overall codebase health and maintainability. * Improve methodologies and systems for tracking engineering metrics, system health, team performance, and developer productivity. * Define, track, and optimize KPIs such as system performance, transaction success rates, infrastructure efficiency, cost optimization, and team velocity. * Optimize cloud infrastructure usage and costs while maintaining performance, reliability, and security standards. * Collaborate closely with Product, Compliance, Legal, Risk, Sales, Marketing, and Business stakeholders to ensure engineering delivery aligns with company priorities and regulatory requirements. * Ensure systems are secure-by-design, with strong ownership of data privacy, fraud prevention, and regulatory readiness. * Build and maintain long-term technical and architectural roadmaps to keep the platform ahead of industry and technology trends. * Foster a high-trust, high-performance engineering culture grounded in accountability, autonomy, continuous learning, and operational excellence. * Contribute to broader company-wide engineering initiatives across financial services and business tooling (e.g., Payment,  lending, savings, deposits, cards, and business management platforms) to elevate the overall engineering organization. To succeed in this role, we think you should have * Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field. * 12-15 years of hands-on software development experience, including 5+ years of successfully leading multiple engineering teams and driving large-scale technical initiatives * Significant prior experience as a Software Engineer, with a strong track record of designing scalable systems and operating in a software architecture capacity (approximately 60/40 technical and people leadership). * Strong backend engineering expertise, with practical experience deploying production systems (e.g., using Spring Boot or similar modern backend frameworks); frontend exposure is a plus. * Proven experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, deployment systems, and managing technical debt at scale. * Demonstrated ability to lead managers and multiple cross-functional teams simultaneously in complex, fast-paced environments. * Prior experience managing distributed and remote teams across multiple geographies. * Strong experience with agile methodologies, sprint planning, and efficient technical resource management. * Proven track record of mentoring, performance management, and developing high-performing engineering teams. * Demonstrated ability to drive alignment across engineering and non-technical stakeholders. * Experience introducing engineering innovations that materially improve team productivity, delivery speed, and operational efficiency. * Experience in fintech or regulated technology environments is a strong plus, especially in high-scale platforms. * Exposure to emerging markets or a strong interest in solving problems related to financial inclusion and financial well-being is advantageous. Cultural Alignment (Must-Have Soft Skills) * High Agency & Ownership: A sense of urgency and 100% involvement; you seek out impactful problems and act without waiting for permission. * Grit: The perseverance to see complex problems through to resolution, especially when challenges are difficult. * Clarity of Thought: The ability to articulate complex concepts and technical decisions with precision and candour. * Empathy: Strong empathy for the business, customers, and engineering team to ensure effective prioritization and decision-making. * No Ego: Prioritizes team success and actively collaborates with others. Some of the technologies you’ll get to work with * Java (latest versions) * Spring and Spring Boot * Docker and Kubernetes * PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Elastic Search * Microservices architecture on AWS What we can offer you * Culture -We put our people first and prioritize the well-being of every team member. We’ve built a company where all opinions carry weight and where all voices are heard. We value and respect each other and always look out for one another. Above all, we are human. * Learning - We have a learning and development-focused environment with an emphasis on knowledge sharing, training, and regular internal technical talks. * Compensation - You’ll receive an attractive salary, pension, health insurance,, Employee Stock Options, annual bonus, plus other benefits. What to expect in the hiring process * Stage 1: A preliminary phone call with one of our recruiters. * Stage 2: System Design - You’ll be asked to solve complex system design problems to assess your technical and architectural skills. * Stage 3: Technical Leadership & Architecture round - with two of our Heads of Engineering, dive deeper into technical challenges with advanced system design problems and assess your ability to lead others.  * Stage 4: PM/Cultural Fit & Leadership - Explore your leadership qualities, cultural fit, and ability to drive technical teams while fostering a positive, inclusive environment. * Stage 5: Founder Interview: 60 minute interview with our Co-founder/CTO   How to apply: Please send us your CV or LinkedIn profile via our career website. Moniepoint is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and candidates. #LI-Remote