Cloud Engineering Team Lead

What is Flagstone?

Flagstone is many things. An online savings platform, reinventing how individuals, businesses, and charities manage, protect, and grow their cash. A diverse group of people, bound by a collaborative spirit, and shared purpose. And lastly, a thriving, profitable business – where smart people do their best work.

Each definition shares a common thread: our unique culture. It’s our pride and joy. And our competitive advantage.

A feel for our culture

To revolutionise the savings market, we need to be at our best. But high performance takes more than talent – it takes a culture of kindness, respect, and growth.

That’s why we’re building a diverse, inclusive community, where your voice is heard and valued. Where, with close support and room to develop, you can surpass even your own expectations. And be rewarded for it.

We may not change the world, but we can change the world of financial technology. And all it takes is a winning mix of drive, talent, and empathy. Our culture celebrates all three.

But enough about us. Let’s talk about you.

Does this sound like you?

The purpose of this role is to produce and maintain high quality systems to achieve business objectives through contributions to the development process including system design/architecture and performance management of the team. A team leader will work in partnership with relevant teams across the organisation to identify how technology can solve business challenges and be capable of answering "how and why" the technology is designed and delivered.

What you’ll do:

As a Team Leader, a large part of the day-to-day will involve coaching and mentoring other engineers, helping them develop better solutions and understand system design with a focus on their career progression and personal development. You will also be responsible for effective performance management and driving an environment of high performance. The Team Lead will also need to support the Product Manager in terms of understanding & scheduling of upcoming work including resourcing. They are responsible for the day-to-day running and delivery of the squad's work stream.

Impact of role:

Strategy - Contributes to setting the technical strategy for the squad in partnership with the Principal Engineer (and support from Senior Engineers) taking into consideration the impact on the wider business and setting goals for their team that aligns with the strategy.

Delivery - Indirectly contributes to the delivery of solutions through assisting and unblocking others in the team providing the right level of preparation too. Will directly and individually contribute too but with a focus on ensuring high performance of the team. Continually reviewing current software engineering processes and practices implementing improvements with data and team-driven feedback. Manages the capacity of the team with the Product Manager.

Decision Making - Contributes and can lead to strategic decisions, taking tactical and operational decisions relating the technology stack looking beyond the current feature work up to 1-3 months ahead. Mostly concentrating on shorter term decisioning to facilitate the delivery of the current feature. Will also factor in costs when considering solution choices. Regulatory and compliance considerations are highlighted.

Operational Mindset - Evangelises, enables and ensures the "you build it, you run it" mantra and always considers operational concerns as part of feature delivery and system design, including run books, monitoring, alerts and general maintenance. Nonfunctional requirements are designed for and, where unclear, provides support to the Product Manager so they can be shaped and understood.

Quality - Ensures contributions maintain quality standards in the form of adherence to ADRs, style policies and testing strategy through coaching and peer review. Contributes to the definition of the quality gates and standards, identifying opportunities for improvement and driving their implementation.

Risk & Incident Management - Understands, identifies and raises risks as necessary and assisting less experienced engineers with the risk process, embedding a "Think Risk" culture. Will contribute and also often facilitate with incidents, including their identification, management (handling and communication) and resolution while ensuring adherence to process to maintained.

What you’ll bring:

• Cloud Services, Azure cloud-first principles, Azure DevOps, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft AD, Bicep 

• Generally aware of Cloud Security considerations

• Networking/ Development

• CI/CD pipelines

• Service performance, Metrics and Alerting

• Confident verbal and written communication of domain to both technical and non-technical people

• Coaching, mentoring & performance management

• Architecture / System design

• Stakeholder management including influencing and negotiation 

• Agile and scrum practices

How we reward you:

At Flagstone, the benefits extend beyond false gifts like “fruit and snacks”. Instead, we invest in your health, wealth, and professional development. Here’s a selection of our benefits:

• Private healthcare
• Life insurance (four times your annual salary)
• Dental/optical care
• Matched pension contributions (5%)
• Income protection
• Around the World in 90 days (remote working possibility)
• £1,000 annual learning bursary
• 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
• Remote working kit, for when you're not in the office
• Access to our platform, at no cost
• Additional 3 days community and charity leave each year
• Quarterly half days for Wellness leave
• Flexible bank holidays
• Gym discount

All are welcome.

At Flagstone, we’re assembling a diverse team that defies our industry’s norms. Think this role could suit you? We encourage you to apply, no matter your background.