Engineering Team Lead

ABOUT US

Founded in 2016, Enfuce is a female-led company with a unique vision: to bring the brightest minds and the best technology together to break down the barriers to prosperity. As the leading global card issuer and payment processor that merges innovation, security, and expertise to create modular, cloud-based payment processing capabilities, Enfuce is one of Finland’s most valuable scaleups, and is the first financial service provider in the world to be PCI-DSS certified while running its service in the public cloud. By focusing on collaboration, Enfuce is able to efficiently provide customers with cutting edge features - offering in-house experts and white labeled technology to help companies create scalable payment solutions with ease.

Supporting debit, credit, prepaid, gift, fleet and fuel card programmes in any form - for consumer, commercial and B2B applications - Enfuce’s no-nonsense approach helps customers create bespoke payment solutions that are flexible, scalable and secure. To reach our ambitious goals and become the World’s Number One payment provider, we need you to join us as our Engineering Technical Lead.

THE ROLE AND TEAM

As an Engineering Team Lead within Enfuce, you hold a pivotal role in ensuring the success of our software engineering efforts. Your responsibility is to provide experienced technology leadership within the team, line manage the software engineers, and collaborate closely with the Product Owner to ensure a well-aligned, efficient, effective and motivated development team. By fostering a healthy team culture, addressing technical challenges, and aiding in story creation, you play a crucial part in driving the team's productivity, delivering exceptional products and services that achieve our business objectives.

What we're looking for:

• Technical Leadership: Provide senior technology expertise and guidance to the software development team. Collaborate with team members to address technical challenges, review code, and ensure the adoption of best practices and coding standards.
• Team Leadership: Line manages the software engineers in the team, including setting performance goals, providing coaching and mentorship, conducting performance evaluations and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with the Product Owner: Ensure that the product backlog is well-prioritized, refined, and aligned with business targets. Provide input on technical feasibility, complexity, current platform performance (incidents/defects/security issues) and dependencies. Aid in the creation of well-defined user stories, ensuring the team has a clear understanding of the "what" and "why."
• Continuous Planning and Execution: Participate in planning meetings, providing technical insights and guidance to the team. Provide guidance on tech debt, and underlying problems driving customer issues and consuming development resources. Review data on team performance, identify areas for improvement, and work with the Product Owner to optimize outcomes.
• Team Health: Assess and nurture the health of the development team. Conduct pulse checks during retrospectives, address concerns, and maintain a positive and collaborative team environment that is resourced appropriately with talented individuals that are performing to appropriate standards.
• Incident Management: Work with software engineers and wider development resources to own the categorisation and resolution of incidents with the Payment Platform.
• Stakeholder Alignment: Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders, including Product Managers, Domain Experts, Architects, Commercial, and Marketing colleagues, and CTO to ensure alignment between technical capabilities and business objectives.
• Problem Solving: Address technical challenges and issues that arise during development. Collaborate with the team and wider technology subject matter experts (other ETLs, Architects etc) to find effective solutions and optimize the development process.

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?

• Enjoyable working environment: Measured by team morale and satisfaction levels which are gathered by regular pulse surveys.
• Improved team productivity: Assessed by the quality of delivered features according to commitments and external factors. Measuring and following internal team efficiency metrics.
• Technical Excellence: Measured by team's adherence to coding standards, code review quality, incident frequency and reduction of technical debt.
• A modern workplace where you get to work with the latest technologies and industry experts
• A great opportunity to be a key player in making the change in the payment industry globally, with colleagues who are the best in the world in this field,
• Plenty of room for personal growth within the company.

Along with salary and other perks & benefits, we offer ESOP – incentives to share the success. Our culture and leadership can be summed up as focused on ownership, responsibility and solution orientation. This is a permanent position located at either our office in Espoo, Mariehamn, London or remotely if you are located elsewhere in mid Europe.

HOW TO APPLY?

If you feel you've got the attitude needed for the opportunity, we would absolutely love to hear from you. Just click "Apply for this job" and leave your information - we'll contact you! How we’re going to evaluate your application We will put emphasis on your previous track record, demonstrated skills within Engineering and leadership, and your ability to show a solution-focused attitude. In the recruitment process we will value a show of attitude demonstrating respect for others, curiosity to learn more, and being accountable for your actions. A background check for employment is conducted for this role.