Careers is seeking a Ruby on Rails Lead Engineer to provide hands-on technical leadership within the Home Finance product engineering team. You will be responsible for the systems powering mortgage origination and servicing capabilities, leading the technical evolution of a bespoke Ruby on Rails platform, designing modern solutions, and driving adoption of agile and DevSecOps practices.
What You'll Do
- Lead, coach and inspire engineers in a stream-aligned product team, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and high performance.
- Deepen adoption of agile, DevSecOps and modern engineering practices, optimising the flow of change and reducing time to value.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to deliver secure, stable and scalable solutions that support Home Finance operations and customer outcomes.
- Ensure regulatory compliance (including FCA MCOB) and operational excellence across the platform.
- Shape the technology roadmap, contributing to architectural decisions and cloud migration strategies.
- Manage operational risk, security posture, monitoring, alerting and incident response for Home Finance systems.
- Use data and insights to guide prioritisation, engineering improvements and product decisions.
- Support the Engineering Manager with talent development to build a high-performing engineering capability.
- Remove waste to improve cost efficiency and increase value delivery for customers.
- Define and track team and departmental OKRs, ensuring alignment with company strategy.
- Build strong relationships with third-party suppliers to maximise value and service quality.
What We're Looking For
- Strong, hands-on engineering skills with the breadth to lead a modern product-centric team.
- Strong understanding of mortgage origination/administration systems or comparable regulated financial platforms.
- Experience delivering and operating web-based MVC applications (e.g., Ruby on Rails, React) and APIs.
- Skilled in designing, managing and optimising relational SQL databases.
- Hands-on knowledge of cloud platforms (Azure or GCP) and cloud-native architectures.
- Broad engineering experience across DevSecOps, automation, CI/CD, infrastructure, monitoring and security best practice.
- Proven track record of running critical production services with a focus on stability, performance and security.
- Comfortable designing, building, testing, deploying and supporting software using agile and DevOps practices, improving the route to production through automated CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience helping build high-performing, motivated and curious teams.
- Confident working with OKRs and outcome-driven delivery.
- Able to communicate complex technical ideas simply and persuasively.
- Skilled at navigating ambiguity, prioritising effectively and influencing senior stakeholders.
- Collaborative, pragmatic and adept at building trust across product, engineering and operational teams.
- Demonstrate strong teamwork, communication and problem-solving skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Proven and demonstrable engineering capability, with experience leading on technical delivery.
- A passion for modern, inclusive engineering and the ability to inspire and develop others.
Nice to Have
- Experience with React or other modern JavaScript frameworks, complementing Ruby on Rails and JavaScript.
Technical Stack
- Ruby on Rails
- MySQL
- JavaScript
- React
- Azure
- GCP
Team & Environment
You will be part of a stream-aligned product engineering team and will report to an Engineering Manager.
Benefits & Compensation
- Competitive salary and benefits package
- Generous pension and bonus scheme
- Income protection
- Private medical insurance
- Life assurance
- Training and development opportunities
- Flexible working arrangements
We are committed to building an inclusive workplace with a diverse workforce where everyone can feel they belong and achieve their potential regardless of gender, ethnicity or any other characteristic.
