Senior Engineering Team Lead
Location: London
Department: Enterprise Tech
We’re reinventing payments.
In less than four years, Dojo disrupted the market to become the largest and most loved acquirer in the UK. Our payments infrastructure, purpose-built for in-person commerce, is game changing.
Now, over 150,000 customers across four countries choose to transact billions with us every year.
But we’re just getting started.
Our people are the driving force behind our success. They are our greatest investment and our ultimate competitive advantage. We hire exceptional people and give them the autonomy, trust, and ownership to thrive. The results take care of themselves.
Role Overview
We are looking for a leader for the Risk Experience squad to drive the future of our Risk and Underwriting domains.
Currently, these systems sit in the critical path of our onboarding journey, deciding who we can safely welcome as a customer. However, our ambitions are much larger. We are transforming these domains into a centralised, intelligent engine that sits at the heart of our business, serving the entire customer lifecycle.
We’re searching for a leader who can empower our squad to think beyond simple maintenance. Your role will be to guide the team in architecting and building the resilient, observable, and evolvable systems that will enable us to scale internationally. If you are passionate about high-integrity engineering and want to see your work directly impact the company's bottom line, let’s talk.
What you will do…
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Technical leadership: lead the architecture and design of scalable, efficient, and maintainable systems; Oversee code reviews, ensure adherence to coding standards, and promote best practices; Stay updated on the latest technologies and guide the team in adopting relevant tools and frameworks; Act as the go-to person for complex technical challenges. Support production systems in collaboration with the Support team.
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Team leadership and management: mentorship, team building, performance management, and conflict resolution. Foster an inclusive, collaborative, safe, and open culture.
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Own the software development process, ensuring software is delivered with quality, predictability, and consistency. Implement testing strategies and CI/CD pipelines to ensure code stability and performance.
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Work with Customer Lifecycle leadership to strategically align technical efforts with business goals and product roadmap, proactively identify opportunities to innovate and differentiate the product, and plan for the long-term scalability, security, and maintainability of software owned by the team.
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Work closely with key Stakeholders and Product to discover, implement and test hypotheses that drive customer acquisition. Lead the delivery of business objectives in collaboration with peers, product, and technical management.
What you will bring…
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Technical leadership: expert-level knowledge of .NET and Microservices, with a proven track record of designing resilient, cloud-native, event-driven systems and managing diverse SQL/NoSQL data landscapes.
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Product engineering at scale: you possess a product-first mindset, where you translate complex business requirements into elegant technical solutions that not only advance the domains under your ownership, but that holistically advance the entire customer lifecycle.
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Experience leading a cross-functional team of engineers, product, and QA.
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Strong verbal and written communication skills to ensure alignment, foster collaboration, bridge technical and business needs, and drive effective decision-making across a diverse set of stakeholders.
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Strong mentorship skills to foster growth, bridge skill gaps, enhance collaboration, and scale the team’s capabilities, ensuring the team's success and individual development across all levels.
Dojo home and away
We believe our best work happens when we collaborate in-person. These “together days” foster communication, drive innovation and spark our brightest ideas.
That's why we have an office-first culture. This means working from the office 4+ days per week.
With offices across Europe, we know a thing or two about staying dynamic. Need deep focus? Head to a quiet zone. Big ideas? Collaboration spaces have you covered. Just here for a catch-up? Our social hubs make it easy. Do work that counts, in spaces made for you.
Question: what’s curious, relentless, and customer obsessed?
If you’re keen to know the answer, you’re a third of the way to meeting our Dojo values.
If the following speak to you, let’s talk:
- You’re curious. You have a real desire to learn and create.
- You’re relentless. You keep going even when it’s easier not to.
- You’re customer-obsessed. You know how important customers are to what you do.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion at Dojo
From local bakeries to well-known eateries, Dojo payments serve over 150,000 places across the UK.
And something that’s fundamental to creating relevant, innovative products at Dojo is to build teams to reflect the diversity of the businesses we serve.
Our drive to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion is closely linked to helping employees thrive and innovating for better customer experiences.
If you care about your work, you’re curious, and you think customer-first, you have a place at Dojo.
To make sure you’re the best you can be throughout the recruitment process, let us know if you need any extra adjustments to help you thrive.
Visit dojo.careers to find out more about our benefits and what it’s like to work at Dojo, or check out our LinkedIn and Instagram pages.
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