Lead Software Engineer (Abound Spain)

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Responsibilities

• ▹Lead and manage a small engineering team, supporting their growth through coaching, mentoring and regular feedback
• ▹Stay hands-on by contributing directly to the codebase and leading engineering best practices
• ▹Act as the technology owner for Spain, ensuring successful implementation and evolution of Abound's platform in the local market
• ▹Define solution architectures that leverage Abound's global platform while addressing Spain-specific business, operational and regulatory requirements
• ▹Lead technical implementation of new capabilities required for the Spanish business
• ▹Coordinate internal engineering teams and third-party technology providers to deliver reliable, scalable solutions
• ▹Evaluate, integrate and manage third-party providers supporting the lending ecosystem (payments, Open Banking, customer communications, fraud prevention, collections)
• ▹Work closely with Product, Risk, Operations and Compliance teams so technology solutions support business growth
• ▹Support engineers through code reviews, pairing and technical guidance
• ▹Participate throughout the full software development lifecycle, from design and implementation through testing, deployment, monitoring and production support
• ▹Help structure engineering delivery, including sprint planning, estimation and retrospectives
• ▹Contribute to Business Continuity Planning, Disaster Recovery and operational resilience
• ▹Provide second-line production support during business hours
• ▹Continuously identify opportunities to simplify architecture, improve platform scalability and increase operational efficiency

Requirements

• ▹Strong experience building and maintaining production systems in Python
• ▹Experience leading engineering teams or complex technical projects
• ▹A hands-on engineer who enjoys solving technical problems while providing technical leadership
• ▹Experience designing solution architectures for business-critical systems
• ▹Experience adapting and deploying shared technology platforms to meet local market, operational and regulatory requirements
• ▹Strong understanding of distributed systems, APIs, cloud-native architectures and modern software engineering practices
• ▹Experience integrating third-party technology providers and external platforms
• ▹Experience collaborating directly with business stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions
• ▹Strong engineering judgement with the ability to make pragmatic technical and architectural decisions
• ▹Experience maintaining highly available production environments with a focus on reliability, observability and operational excellence
• ▹Strong sense of ownership and accountability, with a delivery-focused mindset
• ▹Experience working with AWS or equivalent cloud platforms

Nice to have

• ▹Experience within consumer lending, retail banking or regulated financial services
• ▹Good understanding of the end-to-end lending lifecycle, including loan origination, servicing and collections
• ▹Experience working with lending platforms rather than building products entirely from scratch
• ▹Experience localising global technology platforms for regulated markets
• ▹Experience integrating Open Banking providers, payment providers, credit bureaus, identity verification, fraud prevention and collections platforms
• ▹Experience evaluating and selecting third-party technology vendors
• ▹Experience supporting Business Continuity Planning (BCP), Disaster Recovery and operational resilience initiatives
• ▹Experience operating technology within regulated environments, with understanding of governance, auditability, information security and operational controls

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹A culture that values autonomy, curiosity and continuous improvement
• ▹A modern Python-based technology stack
• ▹Deep exposure to consumer lending and fintech
• ▹The chance to build a scalable technology operation from an established global platform

About the company

Abound is redefining consumer lending in the UK, using advanced AI and Open Banking data to make fair, affordable personal finance available to more people. It has issued over GBP 1.3bn in loans, reached profitability 2.5 years after launch and is now expanding into new markets and product lines.