Lead Backend Engineer (Kotlin)

Job Description

At 11:FS we see ourselves as the challenger team dedicated to helping banks and FS players transform themselves and the industry we love. For us this means rethinking what it takes to operate in financial services top to bottom to help our partners build and launch next generation digital propositions around the globe.

We truly live our values at 11:FS, and they are critical to your entire journey here. We are looking for our new colleagues to add to our culture, and this is as important as pure technical fit. As part of your interview process we’ll deep dive in our values and your beliefs. Everyone at 11:FS fits our 4 core values: Team, Attitude, Communication and Impact, and this remains at the core of our growth.

We are designing and launching new fintech start-ups for our clients and ourselves and treat every opportunity like a business, not a project. To do this we hire great people and get out of their way.

Whilst London is our home, all Elevens are working remotely currently, and are likely to be so for the foreseeable. We want to be as flexible as possible when the World starts to return to normal, so we are more than happy to talk with fully remote colleagues who can travel to London every so often.

What we are looking for:

Within Consulting Engineering, our engineers work alongside our Research, Product, Design and Delivery colleagues in truly cross-functional teams to help solve our clients’ problems and - where appropriate - build products and services with them that are ‘Truly Digital’. We believe what we do is a ‘small team sport’, and we hire talented and motivated people who are passionate about working closely with our clients to solve their problems.

As a Lead Engineer;

• You have had experience in building high performance, highly scalable, fault tolerant systems in the capacity of lead engineer / technical lead (not necessarily in finance!)
• You can work with both technical and non-technical stakeholders and clients to understand their needs, translating and delivering tailored solutions.
• You have great communication skills who can respond to customer needs and think on their feet.
• You have excellent written communication skills as well as technical design/documentation ability.
• You understand how to balance technical perfection with pragmatic delivery, knowing when technical debt is appropriate, and how to manage it.
• You’re a strong coder, and although you won’t be spending all your time coding, you’ll be adept at mentoring others, reviewing, maintaining coding standards, and you’ll ‘set the bar’ for your engineers.
• You are comfortable with having design authority and that can take ownership of and be at the forefront of the delivery for entire sub-systems.
• Server-side Kotlin experience essential, as is experience working within a cloud-based architecture, delivering cloud native solutions.
• You are comfortable with coaching a small team of engineers (e.g. 3-4) with kindness and empathy, resolving conflicts positively, motivating people, and balancing the needs of the team with those of your stakeholders, customers and your Product, Design and Delivery colleagues.
• You have some experience operating as a full-stack engineer (we like to use React) 
• You’re comfortable leading a team in a remote environment, operating asynchronously where appropriate, and you’re able to ensure the team is delivering even if you’re not sitting next to them.

What you’ll be doing:

• Likely leading a small team, (which might consist of front-end, back-end, platform, QA), designing and building products and services for our clients.
• Working closely with our Product and Design colleagues to balance requirements and deliver functioning applications and services that our clients love.
• Working within and across the 11:FS engineering tribe using your skills and experience to improve our technical capabilities.
• Aligning architecture and approach with our Principal Engineers (and providing justification for divergence, where appropriate)Providing technical mentoring and coaching to more junior engineers.
• Solving problems ‘at the coalface’ for your project, but also aligning to our engineering principles and core technology choices. 
• Working with the cross-functional delivery teams who will deliver what you’ve helped design.

Benefits

• Discretionary bonus
• Flexible working
• New Mac laptop
• Private medical
• Pension - match up to 4%
• Income protection
• Life insurance
• Enhanced maternity, paternity & adoption leave
• Free eye test and contribution to eye wear for VDU
• Corporate gym membership
• Season ticket loan
• Birthdays off (or your child's if you prefer)

Unfortunately we are unable to sponsor Visas at this time, but please do check back in with us in the future.

11:FS does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, colour, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits.