Engineering Lead

Location: Cardiff Hybrid / Flexible Working (3 days in office, 2 days hybrid)Salary: £60k + up to 20% annual bonus + benefitsStability, flexibility and the opportunity to work on greenfield projects within one of Europe's leading financial experts, sound interesting to you?LDMS - About UsFounded in 2018, LDMS is part of the LC Financial Holdings group, a 3 pillar organisation that has over 950 employees across Europe. Together, we have an impressive track record of providing world class credit expertise that spans over 20 years.We are a Fintech company focused on digital lending software, a market growing around 18% per year and set to be worth $27 billion by 2028. Given our expertise within the company and across the group we aim to be the leader in the space, and in order to do that we need a team of people who can not just write quality code but can think, create and challenge others to come up with the best solutions for our customers. We are an ambitious team with a pretty big ‘to do list' including improving existing products, building new ones and delivering to new markets.The Role As an Engineering Lead you will be part of the Engineering team at LDMS, working closely with multi disciplined teams in order to deliver world class financial software for LDMS' partners and clients.The two main focuses for the role are to manage the delivery commitments of the team and the performance of team members.Key ResponsibilitiesFrom time to time, the key responsibilities may change or be adapted to the needs of the business; however, the below gives an overview of the key focus areas.DeliveryWorking with the team and Product Owners to support the definition of features Organising delivery ceremonies (refinement, planning etc)Driving a culture of continuous improvementBalancing the capacity of the team between product and technical debt improvementsSupporting in the roll-out and deployment of features from an end to end perspectiveEnsuring that software has been developed to the agreed appropriate level of qualityLine ManagementRegular structured 1-2-1s & setting quarterly SMART objectivesUnderstanding and supporting career developmentCoaching & MentoringReportingProviding visibility on progress and issues to Head of Product EngineeringFacilitating and unblockingSingle point of contact & escalation for the teamWorking closely with other Team Leads to ensure coordination of effortFacilitating team ownership of software, delivery & qualityTechnical Project ManagementRunning technical initiatives in a structured way alongside product deliveryKnowledgeKnowledge sharing, both intra and inter teamIdentifying training requirementsEnsuring the team produce documentation to the required standardRequirementsKey skills we would see being useful for this role are:A solid understanding of agile software development practices Experience developing REST APIs with Java (preferably Java 8+) and Spring BootKnowledge of SQL DB's, preferably PostgresExperience working with modern Continuous Integration tooling such as JenkinsExperience with version control systems such as GitA proven track record of delivering software projects Line management experience Coaching & MentoringGood verbal, written and communication skills BenefitsDiscretionary Bonus (Up-to 20%) 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) 1 day Birthday leave1 day Charity leave Private Health Insurance EAP Pension (3% / 5% contribution) Salary sacrifice - (Bike & Electric Vehicle Scheme)