Join Our Team as a Visual Designer! Contract Length - 6 Months Location; Edinburgh Working Pattern: 2 days per week in the office Are you a talented Visual Designer looking to make a meaningful impact in the digital product design space? Do you thrive in a dynamic, product-led environment? If so, we want to hear from you! About the Role As a mid-to-senior level Visual Designer, you'll play a pivotal role in enhancing and elevating digital product experiences across multiple brands. You will work within an established design system, blending creativity with technical feasibility to deliver visually striking and user-friendly designs. What You'll Do: Elevate Experiences: Apply your visual design expertise to enhance digital products on both web and mobile platforms. Collaborate Effectively: Work closely with Product Owners, Engineers, UX Designers, and Customer Journey Managers in a multidisciplinary team to ensure cohesive end-to-end experiences. Produce High-Quality Outputs: Translate concepts into high-fidelity UI designs and visual assets that align with brand and accessibility standards. Support Multiple Projects: Flexibly contribute to various workstreams, adapting your designs to meet unique product requirements. Refine Our Design System: Help enhance and scale our design system, ensuring consistency and quality across all outputs. Key Deliverables Include: High-fidelity UI designs for web and mobile applications. Visually engaging solutions to complex product challenges. Design assets aligned with brand and product requirements. What You Bring: A strong visual design portfolio showcasing your UI and digital product work. Experience in large, complex organizations, ideally across multiple brands. Proven ability to work within established design systems. Familiarity with agile, product-led environments. An understanding of UI design principles, layout, hierarchy, and visual storytelling. Experience collaborating closely with cross-functional teams including UX, product, and engineering. Tools & Technical Competencies: Proficiency in Figma (essential) for design and prototyping. Familiarity with Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft tools is a plus. Basic understanding of front-end development principles is advantageous but not required. Why Join Us? Work in a vibrant and collaborative environment. Contribute to exciting projects that make a real impact. Engage with a diverse team of professionals who are passionate about design and innovation. Desirable Experience: Exposure to fintech or financial services environments. Basic front-end development knowledge. Success Profile: A successful candidate will showcase strong visual craft, navigate complexity with ease, and confidently operate in a fast-paced product environment. If you're excited to contribute to both concept and delivery while collaborating with multidisciplinary teams, we want you on board! Ready to Make Your Mark? If this sounds like the perfect opportunity for you, don't hesitate! Apply today and join us in creating amazing digital product experiences! We use generative AI tools to support our candidate screening process. This helps us ensure a fair, consistent, and efficient experience for all applicants. Rest assured, all final decisions are made by our hiring team, and your application will be reviewed with care and attention. Pontoon is an employment consultancy. We put expertise, energy, and enthusiasm into improving everyone's chance of being part of the workplace. We respect and appreciate people of all ethnicities, generations, religious beliefs, sexual orientations, gender identities, and more. We do this by showcasing their talents, skills, and unique experience in an inclusive environment that helps them thrive. If you require reasonable adjustments at any stage, please let us know and we will be happy to support you.
Jun 17, 2026
Contractor
Join Our Team as a Visual Designer! Contract Length - 6 Months Location; Edinburgh Working Pattern: 2 days per week in the office Are you a talented Visual Designer looking to make a meaningful impact in the digital product design space? Do you thrive in a dynamic, product-led environment? If so, we want to hear from you! About the Role As a mid-to-senior level Visual Designer, you'll play a pivotal role in enhancing and elevating digital product experiences across multiple brands. You will work within an established design system, blending creativity with technical feasibility to deliver visually striking and user-friendly designs. What You'll Do: Elevate Experiences: Apply your visual design expertise to enhance digital products on both web and mobile platforms. Collaborate Effectively: Work closely with Product Owners, Engineers, UX Designers, and Customer Journey Managers in a multidisciplinary team to ensure cohesive end-to-end experiences. Produce High-Quality Outputs: Translate concepts into high-fidelity UI designs and visual assets that align with brand and accessibility standards. Support Multiple Projects: Flexibly contribute to various workstreams, adapting your designs to meet unique product requirements. Refine Our Design System: Help enhance and scale our design system, ensuring consistency and quality across all outputs. Key Deliverables Include: High-fidelity UI designs for web and mobile applications. Visually engaging solutions to complex product challenges. Design assets aligned with brand and product requirements. What You Bring: A strong visual design portfolio showcasing your UI and digital product work. Experience in large, complex organizations, ideally across multiple brands. Proven ability to work within established design systems. Familiarity with agile, product-led environments. An understanding of UI design principles, layout, hierarchy, and visual storytelling. Experience collaborating closely with cross-functional teams including UX, product, and engineering. Tools & Technical Competencies: Proficiency in Figma (essential) for design and prototyping. Familiarity with Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft tools is a plus. Basic understanding of front-end development principles is advantageous but not required. Why Join Us? Work in a vibrant and collaborative environment. Contribute to exciting projects that make a real impact. Engage with a diverse team of professionals who are passionate about design and innovation. Desirable Experience: Exposure to fintech or financial services environments. Basic front-end development knowledge. Success Profile: A successful candidate will showcase strong visual craft, navigate complexity with ease, and confidently operate in a fast-paced product environment. If you're excited to contribute to both concept and delivery while collaborating with multidisciplinary teams, we want you on board! Ready to Make Your Mark? If this sounds like the perfect opportunity for you, don't hesitate! Apply today and join us in creating amazing digital product experiences! We use generative AI tools to support our candidate screening process. This helps us ensure a fair, consistent, and efficient experience for all applicants. Rest assured, all final decisions are made by our hiring team, and your application will be reviewed with care and attention. Pontoon is an employment consultancy. We put expertise, energy, and enthusiasm into improving everyone's chance of being part of the workplace. We respect and appreciate people of all ethnicities, generations, religious beliefs, sexual orientations, gender identities, and more. We do this by showcasing their talents, skills, and unique experience in an inclusive environment that helps them thrive. If you require reasonable adjustments at any stage, please let us know and we will be happy to support you.
IT Infrastructure Engineer Working in the office in Fareham, with some remote working and trips to Whiteley, Hampshire and a basic salary to 55k plus excellent benefits scheme. Stratospherec are proud to be working with a fantastic UK SaaS Fintech company whose IT systems are revolutionising the UK finance, retail and commerce industries. Due to their sustained and continued growth they are looking to expand their IT Infrastructure team by hiring an Infrastructure Engineer with a strong Wintel, Networks and IT Infrastructure background and who is interested in learning Automation tools with their team. They have a number of large IT projects for the next 24 months including building a new Datacentre and automating their IT Infrastructure deployments. This role will mainly focused to in new IT projects. They are looking for an Infrastructure Engineering mindset with an interest in using automation tools to streamline infrastructure deployment, management and monitoring, combined with a background in administering and building new IT infrastructures and improvements in IT systems from previous projects is going to be vital for this role. Role Responsibilities: Infrastructure & Automation: Maintain and enhance IT infrastructure, including VMware ESXi, Linux, Microsoft Windows Server environments, and Netwrok Monitoring and networking components. Learn how to automate configuration management, infrastructure provisioning, and application deployment. Ensure system reliability, scalability, and performance through proactive monitoring and automation. Maintain and improve local network environments, including Dell servers and Dell switch configurations. Strong technical expertise in Microsoft Active Directory (AD), Windows Server environments, and authentication solutions. IT Security & Compliance: Ensure compliance with security and regulatory standards, including PCI DSS, Cyber Essentials+, DORA, and ISO 27001. Implement and enforce security best practices across infrastructure automation and cloud environments. Secure high-value and high-risk data, such as cardholder (PCI) and personally identifiable information (PII). Cloud & DevOps Integration (these tools and skills will be taught): Implement and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for cloud and on-premises environments. Configure and maintain authentication solutions (SSO, SAML, Entra Connect). Implement and optimize automation tools such as Azure DevOps (or other CI/CD pipelines), Terraform, Node-Red, and Packer. Deploy and manage monitoring tools (Zabbix, SolarWinds SentryOne, and other network/database monitoring solutions). Ensure secure cloud infrastructure management across Azure and AWS environments. Operational Excellence: Collaborate with the Infrastructure & Security Manager to deliver projects from conception to implementation, ensuring adherence to time, cost, and quality objectives. Enforce compliance with IT security policies and regulatory requirements. Lead the annual security training program to ensure compliance with regulatory and industry standards. Experience & Skills: It will be useful to have some of the following skills and experience: Strong expertise in defining, delivering, and supporting robust, resilient, and secure enterprise infrastructure. Experience with IT audits and compliance frameworks (CIS, PCI DSS, Cyber Essentials, NIST, ISO 27001). In-depth understanding of network security and compliance in regulated environments. Proven ability to secure high-value data (PCI cardholder data, PII) and implement security best practices. Strong networking knowledge (LAN, WAN, DNS, DHCP, VPN, TCP/IP). Proficiency in firewall and load balancer technologies for secure environments. Hands-on experience with virtualization platforms (VMware, Citrix Xen) and backup solutions (Veeam or similar). Experience with monitoring tools (SolarWinds SentryOne, Zabbix etc.). Excellent problem-solving, communication, and documentation skills. Desirable / bonus skills and experience: Some interest in learning and using automation tools such as Azure DevOps, Terraform, Node-Red, Packer. Scripting and automation skills (PowerShell, Python, Bash, or similar). Ability to design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure automation. Some experience managing cloud environments (Azure, AWS). This is an exciting new role for a growing IT Infrastructure team, within a successful and growing SaaS company, so if you are looking for an exciting challenging IT Systems and automation role, then please apply with your CV for immediate interview. Please note we can only consider local candidates and with full UK Passports or settled status visas or indefinite leave to remain visas
Jun 15, 2026
Full time
IT Infrastructure Engineer Working in the office in Fareham, with some remote working and trips to Whiteley, Hampshire and a basic salary to 55k plus excellent benefits scheme. Stratospherec are proud to be working with a fantastic UK SaaS Fintech company whose IT systems are revolutionising the UK finance, retail and commerce industries. Due to their sustained and continued growth they are looking to expand their IT Infrastructure team by hiring an Infrastructure Engineer with a strong Wintel, Networks and IT Infrastructure background and who is interested in learning Automation tools with their team. They have a number of large IT projects for the next 24 months including building a new Datacentre and automating their IT Infrastructure deployments. This role will mainly focused to in new IT projects. They are looking for an Infrastructure Engineering mindset with an interest in using automation tools to streamline infrastructure deployment, management and monitoring, combined with a background in administering and building new IT infrastructures and improvements in IT systems from previous projects is going to be vital for this role. Role Responsibilities: Infrastructure & Automation: Maintain and enhance IT infrastructure, including VMware ESXi, Linux, Microsoft Windows Server environments, and Netwrok Monitoring and networking components. Learn how to automate configuration management, infrastructure provisioning, and application deployment. Ensure system reliability, scalability, and performance through proactive monitoring and automation. Maintain and improve local network environments, including Dell servers and Dell switch configurations. Strong technical expertise in Microsoft Active Directory (AD), Windows Server environments, and authentication solutions. IT Security & Compliance: Ensure compliance with security and regulatory standards, including PCI DSS, Cyber Essentials+, DORA, and ISO 27001. Implement and enforce security best practices across infrastructure automation and cloud environments. Secure high-value and high-risk data, such as cardholder (PCI) and personally identifiable information (PII). Cloud & DevOps Integration (these tools and skills will be taught): Implement and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for cloud and on-premises environments. Configure and maintain authentication solutions (SSO, SAML, Entra Connect). Implement and optimize automation tools such as Azure DevOps (or other CI/CD pipelines), Terraform, Node-Red, and Packer. Deploy and manage monitoring tools (Zabbix, SolarWinds SentryOne, and other network/database monitoring solutions). Ensure secure cloud infrastructure management across Azure and AWS environments. Operational Excellence: Collaborate with the Infrastructure & Security Manager to deliver projects from conception to implementation, ensuring adherence to time, cost, and quality objectives. Enforce compliance with IT security policies and regulatory requirements. Lead the annual security training program to ensure compliance with regulatory and industry standards. Experience & Skills: It will be useful to have some of the following skills and experience: Strong expertise in defining, delivering, and supporting robust, resilient, and secure enterprise infrastructure. Experience with IT audits and compliance frameworks (CIS, PCI DSS, Cyber Essentials, NIST, ISO 27001). In-depth understanding of network security and compliance in regulated environments. Proven ability to secure high-value data (PCI cardholder data, PII) and implement security best practices. Strong networking knowledge (LAN, WAN, DNS, DHCP, VPN, TCP/IP). Proficiency in firewall and load balancer technologies for secure environments. Hands-on experience with virtualization platforms (VMware, Citrix Xen) and backup solutions (Veeam or similar). Experience with monitoring tools (SolarWinds SentryOne, Zabbix etc.). Excellent problem-solving, communication, and documentation skills. Desirable / bonus skills and experience: Some interest in learning and using automation tools such as Azure DevOps, Terraform, Node-Red, Packer. Scripting and automation skills (PowerShell, Python, Bash, or similar). Ability to design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure automation. Some experience managing cloud environments (Azure, AWS). This is an exciting new role for a growing IT Infrastructure team, within a successful and growing SaaS company, so if you are looking for an exciting challenging IT Systems and automation role, then please apply with your CV for immediate interview. Please note we can only consider local candidates and with full UK Passports or settled status visas or indefinite leave to remain visas
Join Our Team as a Visual Designer! Contract Length - 6 months Location; Edinburgh Working Pattern: 2 days per week in the office Are you a talented Visual Designer looking to make a meaningful impact in the digital product design space? Do you thrive in a dynamic, product-led environment? If so, we want to hear from you! About the Role As a mid-to-senior level Visual Designer, you'll play a pivotal role in enhancing and elevating digital product experiences across multiple brands. You will work within an established design system, blending creativity with technical feasibility to deliver visually striking and user-friendly designs. What You'll Do: Elevate Experiences: Apply your visual design expertise to enhance digital products on both web and mobile platforms. Collaborate Effectively: Work closely with Product Owners, Engineers, UX Designers, and Customer Journey Managers in a multidisciplinary team to ensure cohesive end-to-end experiences. Produce High-Quality Outputs: Translate concepts into high-fidelity UI designs and visual assets that align with brand and accessibility standards. Support Multiple Projects: Flexibly contribute to various workstreams, adapting your designs to meet unique product requirements. Refine Our Design System: Help enhance and scale our design system, ensuring consistency and quality across all outputs. Key Deliverables Include: High-fidelity UI designs for web and mobile applications. Visually engaging solutions to complex product challenges. Design assets aligned with brand and product requirements. What You Bring: A strong visual design portfolio showcasing your UI and digital product work. Experience in large, complex organizations, ideally across multiple brands. Proven ability to work within established design systems. Familiarity with agile, product-led environments. An understanding of UI design principles, layout, hierarchy, and visual storytelling. Experience collaborating closely with cross-functional teams including UX, product, and engineering. Tools & Technical Competencies: Proficiency in Figma (essential) for design and prototyping. Familiarity with Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft tools is a plus. Basic understanding of Front End development principles is advantageous but not required. Why Join Us? Work in a vibrant and collaborative environment. Contribute to exciting projects that make a real impact. Engage with a diverse team of professionals who are passionate about design and innovation. Desirable Experience: Exposure to fintech or financial services environments. Basic Front End development knowledge. Success Profile: A successful candidate will showcase strong visual craft, navigate complexity with ease, and confidently operate in a fast-paced product environment. If you're excited to contribute to both concept and delivery while collaborating with multidisciplinary teams, we want you on board! Ready to Make Your Mark? If this sounds like the perfect opportunity for you, don't hesitate! Apply today and join us in creating amazing digital product experiences! We use generative AI tools to support our candidate screening process. This helps us ensure a fair, consistent, and efficient experience for all applicants. Rest assured, all final decisions are made by our hiring team, and your application will be reviewed with care and attention. Pontoon is an employment consultancy. We put expertise, energy, and enthusiasm into improving everyone's chance of being part of the workplace. We respect and appreciate people of all ethnicities, generations, religious beliefs, sexual orientations, gender identities, and more. We do this by showcasing their talents, skills, and unique experience in an inclusive environment that helps them thrive. If you require reasonable adjustments at any stage, please let us know and we will be happy to support you.
Jun 11, 2026
Contractor
Join Our Team as a Visual Designer! Contract Length - 6 months Location; Edinburgh Working Pattern: 2 days per week in the office Are you a talented Visual Designer looking to make a meaningful impact in the digital product design space? Do you thrive in a dynamic, product-led environment? If so, we want to hear from you! About the Role As a mid-to-senior level Visual Designer, you'll play a pivotal role in enhancing and elevating digital product experiences across multiple brands. You will work within an established design system, blending creativity with technical feasibility to deliver visually striking and user-friendly designs. What You'll Do: Elevate Experiences: Apply your visual design expertise to enhance digital products on both web and mobile platforms. Collaborate Effectively: Work closely with Product Owners, Engineers, UX Designers, and Customer Journey Managers in a multidisciplinary team to ensure cohesive end-to-end experiences. Produce High-Quality Outputs: Translate concepts into high-fidelity UI designs and visual assets that align with brand and accessibility standards. Support Multiple Projects: Flexibly contribute to various workstreams, adapting your designs to meet unique product requirements. Refine Our Design System: Help enhance and scale our design system, ensuring consistency and quality across all outputs. Key Deliverables Include: High-fidelity UI designs for web and mobile applications. Visually engaging solutions to complex product challenges. Design assets aligned with brand and product requirements. What You Bring: A strong visual design portfolio showcasing your UI and digital product work. Experience in large, complex organizations, ideally across multiple brands. Proven ability to work within established design systems. Familiarity with agile, product-led environments. An understanding of UI design principles, layout, hierarchy, and visual storytelling. Experience collaborating closely with cross-functional teams including UX, product, and engineering. Tools & Technical Competencies: Proficiency in Figma (essential) for design and prototyping. Familiarity with Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft tools is a plus. Basic understanding of Front End development principles is advantageous but not required. Why Join Us? Work in a vibrant and collaborative environment. Contribute to exciting projects that make a real impact. Engage with a diverse team of professionals who are passionate about design and innovation. Desirable Experience: Exposure to fintech or financial services environments. Basic Front End development knowledge. Success Profile: A successful candidate will showcase strong visual craft, navigate complexity with ease, and confidently operate in a fast-paced product environment. If you're excited to contribute to both concept and delivery while collaborating with multidisciplinary teams, we want you on board! Ready to Make Your Mark? If this sounds like the perfect opportunity for you, don't hesitate! Apply today and join us in creating amazing digital product experiences! We use generative AI tools to support our candidate screening process. This helps us ensure a fair, consistent, and efficient experience for all applicants. Rest assured, all final decisions are made by our hiring team, and your application will be reviewed with care and attention. Pontoon is an employment consultancy. We put expertise, energy, and enthusiasm into improving everyone's chance of being part of the workplace. We respect and appreciate people of all ethnicities, generations, religious beliefs, sexual orientations, gender identities, and more. We do this by showcasing their talents, skills, and unique experience in an inclusive environment that helps them thrive. If you require reasonable adjustments at any stage, please let us know and we will be happy to support you.
Avanti recruitment is currently working with a leading award-winning FinTech company based near Epsom, who are looking for a Engineering Manager who is looking to stay close to the code. You'll spend between 30-50% of your time coding, and the rest of your time on people leadership and delivery management. This role is central to a major modernisation project, moving from a legacy monolithic application to a modern microservices and cloud-based architecture. This role will require you on-site 4 days per week, with 1 day remote working. Your responsibilities: Own delivery within a small, high-performing team (currently 3 developers + 1 SRE). Stay hands-on with Java, Spring Boot, microservices, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes and guide best practice. Run daily stand up meetings Lead on system design and architecture for services and modernisation of legacy code Provide day to day technical and people leadership (Mentoring, 1-to-1s, conflict resolution and career progression) Implement escalation and incident management processes, ensuring resilience and reliability Report on progress to the Head of Technology, and keep them up to date with progress reports Act as a bridge between development, operations and other business functions (e.g. Trading, Change) Experience required Must have people leadership experience (1-2-1's, escalation point, disciplinary action when needed etc) Strong hands on Java coding skills Experience in either cloud platforms (AWS preferred), or DevOps experience Docker/Kubernetes & CI/CD Pipelines Track record of leading teams or projects, this could be as a Tech Lead / Principal Engineer or Engineering Manager Exposure to incident management, monitoring and resilience tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK etc) Awareness of Security - dependency scanning, vulnerability management Strong communication skills, able to collaborate with stakeholder, present updates and represent engineering in wider discussions This role will have an element of hands-on development so you must be comfortable still coding, as this could take up 30-50% of your time. The company is planning on expanding in the next year, so this is a great time to elevate your career. Salary up to £100,000 + 27 days holiday. If you are interested in discussing then click Apply Now
Oct 01, 2025
Full time
Avanti recruitment is currently working with a leading award-winning FinTech company based near Epsom, who are looking for a Engineering Manager who is looking to stay close to the code. You'll spend between 30-50% of your time coding, and the rest of your time on people leadership and delivery management. This role is central to a major modernisation project, moving from a legacy monolithic application to a modern microservices and cloud-based architecture. This role will require you on-site 4 days per week, with 1 day remote working. Your responsibilities: Own delivery within a small, high-performing team (currently 3 developers + 1 SRE). Stay hands-on with Java, Spring Boot, microservices, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes and guide best practice. Run daily stand up meetings Lead on system design and architecture for services and modernisation of legacy code Provide day to day technical and people leadership (Mentoring, 1-to-1s, conflict resolution and career progression) Implement escalation and incident management processes, ensuring resilience and reliability Report on progress to the Head of Technology, and keep them up to date with progress reports Act as a bridge between development, operations and other business functions (e.g. Trading, Change) Experience required Must have people leadership experience (1-2-1's, escalation point, disciplinary action when needed etc) Strong hands on Java coding skills Experience in either cloud platforms (AWS preferred), or DevOps experience Docker/Kubernetes & CI/CD Pipelines Track record of leading teams or projects, this could be as a Tech Lead / Principal Engineer or Engineering Manager Exposure to incident management, monitoring and resilience tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK etc) Awareness of Security - dependency scanning, vulnerability management Strong communication skills, able to collaborate with stakeholder, present updates and represent engineering in wider discussions This role will have an element of hands-on development so you must be comfortable still coding, as this could take up 30-50% of your time. The company is planning on expanding in the next year, so this is a great time to elevate your career. Salary up to £100,000 + 27 days holiday. If you are interested in discussing then click Apply Now
Avanti recruitment is currently working with a leading award-winning FinTech company based near Epsom, who are looking for a Engineering Manager who is looking to stay close to the code. You'll spend between 30-50% of your time coding, and the rest of your time on people leadership and delivery management. This role is central to a major modernisation project, moving from a legacy monolithic application to a modern microservices and cloud-based architecture. This role will require you on-site 4 days per week, with 1 day remote working. Your responsibilities: Own delivery within a small, high-performing team (currently 3 developers + 1 SRE). Stay hands-on with Java, Spring Boot, microservices, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes and guide best practice. Run daily stand up meetings Lead on system design and architecture for services and modernisation of legacy code Provide day to day technical and people leadership (Mentoring, 1-to-1s, conflict resolution and career progression) Implement escalation and incident management processes, ensuring resilience and reliability Report on progress to the Head of Technology, and keep them up to date with progress reports Act as a bridge between development, operations and other business functions (e.g. Trading, Change) Experience required Must have people leadership experience (1-2-1's, escalation point, disciplinary action when needed etc) Strong hands on Java coding skills Experience in either cloud platforms (AWS preferred), or DevOps experience Docker/Kubernetes & CI/CD Pipelines Track record of leading teams or projects, this could be as a Tech Lead / Principal Engineer or Engineering Manager Exposure to incident management, monitoring and resilience tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK etc) Awareness of Security - dependency scanning, vulnerability management Strong communication skills, able to collaborate with stakeholder, present updates and represent engineering in wider discussions This role will have an element of hands-on development so you must be comfortable still coding, as this could take up 30-50% of your time. The company is planning on expanding in the next year, so this is a great time to elevate your career. Salary up to £100,000 + 27 days holiday. If you are interested in discussing then click Apply Now
Oct 01, 2025
Full time
Avanti recruitment is currently working with a leading award-winning FinTech company based near Epsom, who are looking for a Engineering Manager who is looking to stay close to the code. You'll spend between 30-50% of your time coding, and the rest of your time on people leadership and delivery management. This role is central to a major modernisation project, moving from a legacy monolithic application to a modern microservices and cloud-based architecture. This role will require you on-site 4 days per week, with 1 day remote working. Your responsibilities: Own delivery within a small, high-performing team (currently 3 developers + 1 SRE). Stay hands-on with Java, Spring Boot, microservices, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes and guide best practice. Run daily stand up meetings Lead on system design and architecture for services and modernisation of legacy code Provide day to day technical and people leadership (Mentoring, 1-to-1s, conflict resolution and career progression) Implement escalation and incident management processes, ensuring resilience and reliability Report on progress to the Head of Technology, and keep them up to date with progress reports Act as a bridge between development, operations and other business functions (e.g. Trading, Change) Experience required Must have people leadership experience (1-2-1's, escalation point, disciplinary action when needed etc) Strong hands on Java coding skills Experience in either cloud platforms (AWS preferred), or DevOps experience Docker/Kubernetes & CI/CD Pipelines Track record of leading teams or projects, this could be as a Tech Lead / Principal Engineer or Engineering Manager Exposure to incident management, monitoring and resilience tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK etc) Awareness of Security - dependency scanning, vulnerability management Strong communication skills, able to collaborate with stakeholder, present updates and represent engineering in wider discussions This role will have an element of hands-on development so you must be comfortable still coding, as this could take up 30-50% of your time. The company is planning on expanding in the next year, so this is a great time to elevate your career. Salary up to £100,000 + 27 days holiday. If you are interested in discussing then click Apply Now
Avanti recruitment is currently working with a leading award-winning FinTech company based near Epsom, who are looking for a Java Technical Lead who is looking to grow into an Engineering Manager position whilst still staying hands-on. You'll spend 50% of your time coding, and 50% of your time on people leadership and delivery management. This role is central to a major modernisation project, moving from a legacy monolithic application to a modern microservices and cloud-based architecture. This role will require you at the office 4 days per week, with 1 day remote working. Your responsibilities: Own delivery within a small, high-performing team (currently 3 developers + 1 SRE). Stay hands-on with Java, Spring Boot, microservices, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes and guide best practice. Lead on system design and architecture for services and modernisation of legacy code Provide day-to-day technical and people leadership (Mentoring, 1-to-1s, conflict resolution and career progression) Implement escalation and incident management processes, ensuring resilience and reliability Report on progress to the Head of Technology, and keep them up to date with progress reports Act as a bridge between development, operations, and other business functions (e.g. Trading, Change) Experience required Strong hands-on coding in Java Experience in either cloud platforms (AWS preferred), or DevOps experience Docker/Kubernetes & CI/CD Pipelines Track record of leading teams or projects, this could be as a Tech Lead / Principal Engineer or Engineering Manager Exposure to incident management, monitoring, and resilience tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK etc) Awareness of Security - dependency scanning, vulnerability management Strong communication skills, able to collaborate with stakeholder, present updates, and represent engineering in wider discussions This role is a great blend between hands-on development and leadership, and will be perfect for someone stepping into Engineering Management. The company is planning on expanding next year, so this is a great time to elevate your career. Salary up to £90,000 + Bonus + 27 days holiday. If you are interested in discussing then click Apply Now
Sep 22, 2025
Full time
Avanti recruitment is currently working with a leading award-winning FinTech company based near Epsom, who are looking for a Java Technical Lead who is looking to grow into an Engineering Manager position whilst still staying hands-on. You'll spend 50% of your time coding, and 50% of your time on people leadership and delivery management. This role is central to a major modernisation project, moving from a legacy monolithic application to a modern microservices and cloud-based architecture. This role will require you at the office 4 days per week, with 1 day remote working. Your responsibilities: Own delivery within a small, high-performing team (currently 3 developers + 1 SRE). Stay hands-on with Java, Spring Boot, microservices, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes and guide best practice. Lead on system design and architecture for services and modernisation of legacy code Provide day-to-day technical and people leadership (Mentoring, 1-to-1s, conflict resolution and career progression) Implement escalation and incident management processes, ensuring resilience and reliability Report on progress to the Head of Technology, and keep them up to date with progress reports Act as a bridge between development, operations, and other business functions (e.g. Trading, Change) Experience required Strong hands-on coding in Java Experience in either cloud platforms (AWS preferred), or DevOps experience Docker/Kubernetes & CI/CD Pipelines Track record of leading teams or projects, this could be as a Tech Lead / Principal Engineer or Engineering Manager Exposure to incident management, monitoring, and resilience tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK etc) Awareness of Security - dependency scanning, vulnerability management Strong communication skills, able to collaborate with stakeholder, present updates, and represent engineering in wider discussions This role is a great blend between hands-on development and leadership, and will be perfect for someone stepping into Engineering Management. The company is planning on expanding next year, so this is a great time to elevate your career. Salary up to £90,000 + Bonus + 27 days holiday. If you are interested in discussing then click Apply Now
Avanti recruitment is currently working with a leading award-winning FinTech company based near Epsom, who are looking for a Java Technical Lead who is looking to grow into an Engineering Manager position whilst still staying hands-on. You'll spend 50% of your time coding, and 50% of your time on people leadership and delivery management. This role is central to a major modernisation project, moving from a legacy monolithic application to a modern microservices and cloud-based architecture. This role will require you at the office 4 days per week, with 1 day remote working. Your responsibilities: Own delivery within a small, high-performing team (currently 3 developers + 1 SRE). Stay hands-on with Java, Spring Boot, microservices, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes and guide best practice. Lead on system design and architecture for services and modernisation of legacy code Provide day-to-day technical and people leadership (Mentoring, 1-to-1s, conflict resolution and career progression) Implement escalation and incident management processes, ensuring resilience and reliability Report on progress to the Head of Technology, and keep them up to date with progress reports Act as a bridge between development, operations, and other business functions (e.g. Trading, Change) Experience required Strong hands-on coding in Java Experience in either cloud platforms (AWS preferred), or DevOps experience Docker/Kubernetes & CI/CD Pipelines Track record of leading teams or projects, this could be as a Tech Lead / Principal Engineer or Engineering Manager Exposure to incident management, monitoring, and resilience tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK etc) Awareness of Security - dependency scanning, vulnerability management Strong communication skills, able to collaborate with stakeholder, present updates, and represent engineering in wider discussions This role is a great blend between hands-on development and leadership, and will be perfect for someone stepping into Engineering Management. The company is planning on expanding next year, so this is a great time to elevate your career. Salary up to £90,000 + Bonus + 27 days holiday. If you are interested in discussing then click Apply Now
Sep 22, 2025
Full time
Avanti recruitment is currently working with a leading award-winning FinTech company based near Epsom, who are looking for a Java Technical Lead who is looking to grow into an Engineering Manager position whilst still staying hands-on. You'll spend 50% of your time coding, and 50% of your time on people leadership and delivery management. This role is central to a major modernisation project, moving from a legacy monolithic application to a modern microservices and cloud-based architecture. This role will require you at the office 4 days per week, with 1 day remote working. Your responsibilities: Own delivery within a small, high-performing team (currently 3 developers + 1 SRE). Stay hands-on with Java, Spring Boot, microservices, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes and guide best practice. Lead on system design and architecture for services and modernisation of legacy code Provide day-to-day technical and people leadership (Mentoring, 1-to-1s, conflict resolution and career progression) Implement escalation and incident management processes, ensuring resilience and reliability Report on progress to the Head of Technology, and keep them up to date with progress reports Act as a bridge between development, operations, and other business functions (e.g. Trading, Change) Experience required Strong hands-on coding in Java Experience in either cloud platforms (AWS preferred), or DevOps experience Docker/Kubernetes & CI/CD Pipelines Track record of leading teams or projects, this could be as a Tech Lead / Principal Engineer or Engineering Manager Exposure to incident management, monitoring, and resilience tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK etc) Awareness of Security - dependency scanning, vulnerability management Strong communication skills, able to collaborate with stakeholder, present updates, and represent engineering in wider discussions This role is a great blend between hands-on development and leadership, and will be perfect for someone stepping into Engineering Management. The company is planning on expanding next year, so this is a great time to elevate your career. Salary up to £90,000 + Bonus + 27 days holiday. If you are interested in discussing then click Apply Now
