Position: Lead Java Engineer (British Product)
Company: LOBBY X
Experience required: 5y
Category: Java
English level: upper
Published: 2021-12-01T00:00:00+02:00

**COMPANY DESCRIPTION:**

Client is a London-based fintech start-up (post-seed stage) striving to fundamentally change the consumer loans market for used cars in the UK first and then globally.

They are building an end-to-end platform from the ground up and they are a tech company at the heart. The tech challenges are comparable to the challenges of building a modern neobank from scratch: consumer app, credit decision engine based on banking data, car purchases with virtual cards or XPay, sophisticated data usage, etc.

The team is 11 experienced personalities who want to grow, love to be trusted, enjoy a joke as well as are car enthusiasts! 

They have an experienced founding team that has raised over £24M in funding from leading VCs in the past. They are backed by some of London’s smartest Fintech angel and VC investors who are connected to leading businesses such as Revolut, Lendable, Koyo Loans, Jaguar Land Rover, and many more.

**Key Responsibilities:**

You would start by working hand in hand with the CTO and engineering team to bring key ideas to life, hands-on engineering
As you’ll learn the domain and as the product grows, the client expects you to lead your own gradually expanding engineering team (ca. 4-6 months after joining)
You’ll be owning team processes and a quarterly roadmap
No micromanagement, they trust you to do your best job
You’ll be working closely with the Head of Product to define the scope and identify opportunities
You’ll be working closely with the CTO on system architecture, domain design, as well as other key areas of the engineering function
You’ll be interacting with key stakeholders of the platform and experts from other functions: Quality Assurance, Finance, Operations, Compliance, Risk, Fraud

**Skills & Attitude:**
Proven track record and ability to build products/solutions from scratch
Demonstrated ability to lead a team
7+ years of engineering experience
You should be very experienced with backend technologies
Preferably, you should have a solid background in Java, Springboot, and the AWS ecosystem, which is our core tech stack
Understanding of Continuous Delivery best practices
Microservices expertise and/or domain-driven design skills would be a big plus
It would be nice if you had: DevOps, Frontend, Data, or generally Fintech domain experience
Ambitions to build an amazing consumer-facing product. The client aims to deliver “wow” to the customers

**WHAT WE OFFER**
Competitive salary and equity (stock options)
They are building many things from scratch, and you’ll take an active part in the decision-making
All the benefits of an early-stage joiner: zero overheads, fast decisions, and rapid growth
Senior and friendly team. At the moment, all engineers are co-located in Lviv including CTO
Hybrid/Remote work mode as the company grows: they expect people to overlap in the office quite a bit initially (2-3 days/week) but will be shifting towards remote work approaches as the company grows
4 weeks of paid vacation and 2 weeks of sick leaves
UK Visa sponsorship and travel to London with your fellow teammates
Just a 2h timezone difference between Ukraine and UK
Gear up with the latest new Macbook Pro M1