Lead Engineer – Collections and Treasury
NALA
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • United Kingdom
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Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Own key architecture and implementation decisions for the collections & treasury foundation
- Lead design work (RFCs, diagrams, API and system specs) to align on solutions before building
- Partner with PMs and stakeholders to translate business intent into technically sound requirements
- Design and build customer-facing and internal APIs to support collections and payment strategies
- Build reliable infrastructure for vIBAN provisioning and collections orchestration
- Drive engineering quality across API standards, testing strategy, code review bar, and maintainability
- Manage delivery by breaking down complex work, sequencing milestones, and keeping projects moving end to end
- Make pragmatic trade-offs: move fast where we can, protect correctness where we must (especially in financial systems)
Requirements
- Have worked with Go in a production environment
- How to translate business intent into technical requirements and clean system boundaries
- What “good” looks like in financial-grade systems, including correctness, reliability, auditability, and operational readiness
- Design principles that drive maintainability (single responsibility, separation of concerns, etc.)
- API fundamentals, including consistency, versioning, backward compatibility, and developer experience
- Requirement gathering
- Design-first (this is a must)
- Engineering quality
- Disciplined execution
- Proven delivery of complex backend or distributed systems in a production environment
- Experience owning systems end to end, from design to build to ship to operate to iterate
- Experience working closely with PMs and stakeholders to shape solutions, not just implement them
- Experience making pragmatic trade-offs in startup environments, balancing speed, correctness, and scope
- Calm, decisive, and effective in ambiguous environments
- Collaborative by default, aligns early, communicates clearly, and brings others along
- High ownership with high standards, accountable for outcomes, not just output
- Pragmatic, not dogmatic, knows where we can compromise to move fast and where we absolutely should not
Benefits
- 27 Days Off Plus UK Bank Holidays
- Birthday Leave: Celebrate your special day with a bonus day off to take off in that month.
- Enhanced Parental Leave: We offer 16 weeks of full pay for the primary caregiver and 4 weeks of full pay for the secondary caregiver (After a 6-month probationary period)
- Enhanced Pension: Salary sacrifice pension scheme via Penfold giving you flexibility and control on how you save for your future!
- Global Workspace: Get access to WeWork locations worldwide.
- Learning Budget: Fuel your growth with $1000 annually for learning and development.
- Sarabi: Themed snacks and Friday lunch focused on building great working relationships with the team.
- Monthly Socials: Join fun social events every month for great times.
- Free Coffee: Enjoy barista-style coffee at your fingertips.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
GoAPI designsystem architecturecollections orchestrationfinancial-grade systemsbackend systemsdistributed systemsrequirement gatheringdesign principlesengineering quality
Soft Skills
collaborationcommunicationdecisivenessownershipaccountabilitypragmatismadaptabilityleadershipproblem-solvingexecution