Job Description
Core Purpose
To lead the technical design development and delivery of the Originate SaaS suite of products while aligning engineering execution with business goals ensuring scalability security reliability and maintainability.
Your contribution
Key Responsibilities
1. Technical Leadership
Architect secure high-availability systems with compliance in mind (e.g. PCI DSS SOC 2 ISO 27001).
Ensure robust encryption audit trails and access control mechanisms.
Guide backend design for high-volume transactional systems (e.g. ledgers payments identity verification).
2. Product Collaboration
Work closely with Product Managers to understand business goals and translate them into technical requirements.
Provide effort estimates and feasibility assessments for new features.
Influence product roadmap with technical insights and constraints.
Proactively address technical debt
3. Team Enablement
Lead and mentor teams of engineers in secure coding practices and fintech-specific architectural concerns.
Foster a culture of ownership collaboration and continuous improvement.
Lead sprint planning daily stand-ups and retrospectives (in Agile environments).
4. Delivery Ownership
Own the full lifecycle of product featuresfrom design to deployment and maintenance.
Ensure on-time delivery by identifying and mitigating risks early.
Champion CI/CD practices and ensure smooth automated deployment pipelines.
5. Reliability Security and Observability
Own the uptime latency and performance SLAs of financial APIs and services.
Proactively monitor risk vectors and enforce observability via metrics logging and alerting.
Work with DevSecOps to embed security testing into the CI/CD pipeline.
6. Stakeholder Communication
Serve as the main technical point of contact for the Origination product suite.
Communicate progress challenges and trade-offs with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Present architectural proposals and technical updates to leadership.
What makes you stand out
Key Skills & Competencies
Technical
Strong grasp of SaaS architectures (multi-tenancy API design data security).
Familiarity with industry tech stack (e.g. React AWS Azure)
Understanding of cloud-native principles DevOps and containerization (e.g. Docker Kubernetes).
Agile/SCRUM experience
Leadership
Strong decision-making and prioritization skills.
Ability to balance speed and quality under business pressures.
Strong communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders especially in regulated contexts.
Conflict resolution and emotional intelligence.
Domain
Experience with financial regulations (e.g. PCI-DSS GDPR PSD2).
Familiarity with fintech standards and third-party integrations (e.g. Decision Engines ID&V Swift ISO 20022).
Success Metrics
System Trustworthiness: Uptime performance technical SLA adherence.
Compliance Alignment: Passing audits traceability of changes secure defaults.
Delivery Efficiency: Timely delivery of roadmap items with minimal rollback or hotfixes.
Security Posture: Number of vulnerabilities found internally vs externally.
Team Health: Retention clarity of technical direction team engagement.
What we offer
We offer a competitive salary 25 days annual leave and a day off so you can celebrate your birthday!
Pension with contributions up to 5% and healthcare.
Have we sparked your interest
Apply today and become part of our team!
Please send us your application documents using the application form.
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