Lead Engineer
Your new role at NewDay
NewDay has used our 20+ years of experience to build a cloud-native and configurable technology platform, which will be powering both our existing credit products, as well as those of new partners in the future. Our business moves at pace, and we’re looking for a Technology Risk Business Partner within our 2nd line Risk team to work with our Platforms business as they develop our technology stack, enter new partnerships and launch products onto the market. The candidate will be a champion for good risk and control practices encouraging compliance, resilience and security by design whilst promoting a risk-conscious culture.
What You’ll Deliver
• Architecting and Enhancing Core Platform Components: Design and implement scalable, cloud-native solutions for critical components such as Ledger management, Statement generation, and Interest Calculation to ensure high performance and reliability.
• Driving Cloud-Native Architecture: Ensure the platform leverages cloud-native patterns and technologies to achieve scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.
• Collaborating Across Teams: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including product, design, and operations, to deliver features that align with business goals and customer needs.
• Streamlining Development and Delivery: Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation to support rapid, reliable delivery of platform updates and new features.
What You’ll Bring:
• Proven Expertise in C#: Extensive experience in developing robust, scalable, and maintainable applications using C# and .NET Core.
• Azure Cloud Proficiency: Deep knowledge of Azure services, including Service Bus, CosmosDB, Azure Functions, and related cloud-native patterns.
• Event Sourcing & Domain-Driven Design: Strong understanding and hands-on experience with Event Sourcing, Event-Driven Architecture, and Domain-Driven Design principles.
• CI/CD and GitHub Actions: Demonstrated ability to design, build, and maintain reliable CI/CD pipelines, leveraging tools like GitHub Actions to automate testing, builds, and deployments.
• Comprehensive Testing Skills: Expertise in creating and executing component, integration, end-to-end (e2e), and contract tests to ensure software quality and system reliability.
• Agile Methodologies: Proven experience working in Agile environments to build and deliver software.
• Microservices Architecture: Extensive experience designing, developing, and maintaining microservices-based systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, and observability.
• Leadership & Mentorship: Ability to lead engineering teams, mentor developers, and drive best practices for coding, testing, and DevOps.
• Problem Solving & Decision Making: Adept at analysing complex systems, identifying potential issues, and implementing effective solutions in a collaborative environment.
We would love you to know or learn
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Proficiency in Terraform, Pulumi, or similar IaC tools for provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure in a repeatable and secure manner.
Where next? Let’s talk about this role – Apply now or contact
talent@newday.co.uk with any queries.
About NewDay
We help people move forward with credit and help our colleagues to move
their careers forward too.We use our highly flexible, scalable, and multi-product digital credit engine to power over 120 million transactions every year. Our brands include Aqua,marbles, fluid and Bip. We partner with leading brands such as John Lewis, AO, Argos and DEKO. Over 5 million UK customers are supported by our award-winning customer service. At NewDay, we value all types of diversity. We’re an equal opportunity employer and believe that our differences create a vibrant, authentic working culture. We want all our colleagues to feel able to bring their whole selves to work. We don’t discriminate on the basis of age, physical or mental disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and carer status, race (including colour, nationality, and ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. We make sure that every job is crafted to be inclusive and that people with disabilities or caring responsibilities can take part in the application and interview process. Tell us if you need accommodations: we’ll put reasonable adjustments in place to support you.
Our dynamic NewDay culture
We’re focused on what will drive impact in helping people move forward with credit. Our distinctive culture is geared to spark innovation and team working – with lots of open doors for development. Our customers can rely on us because we aim high, support each other, do the right thing and build for the future.
We invest in our colleagues. On top of a strong market competitive salary, you get a bonus opportunity that matches the impact (delivery + values) you drive in your role. We also help you retire better with market leading pensions.
At NewDay, #yourwellbeing matters: You get 26 days holiday and can buy up to 5 more after probation. Then you’ll get extra days as you build your career with us. NewWork, our flexible, hybrid working approach, helps you to manage your work/life balance - and even bolt on work time in other countries before or after your holiday. And when you’re in the office, you get free healthy breakfast, fresh juices, lunch, barista coffee etc. Our tax efficient green car and cycle to work schemes save you money (and help the planet).
Ask your Talent Acquisition Partner to tell you more about any of our perks.
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