Developer Enablement Team Lead

at  YouLend

ABOUT US

YouLend is the preferred global embedded financing platform for many of the world’s leading e-commerce sites, tech companies and payment services providers such as Amazon, eBay, Shopify, Mollie, Dojo, Paysafe, Just Eat Takeaway and Takepayments. Our software platform and APIs enable our partners to offer flexible financing products, in their desired branding, to their merchant base. With YouLend’s AI-driven credit risk assessment solutions, more merchants and SMEs than ever can receive fast, flexible and affordable funding. We operate in 9+ geographies across the UK, EU and the US.
We believe that the future of financial services will be delivered by customer-oriented tech companies that embed financing in their customer journeys, and we are building the solutions that will power that future.

REQUIREMENTS:

• 5+ years of experience in software development, with at least 2+ years in a team lead or engineering leadership role. Experience with developer tooling, DevOps practices, and automation is highly preferred.
• Strong technical background in software development practices, with experience in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, automation, version control systems (Git), and cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Hands-on experience with developer tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and other similar tools to enable and support development workflows.
• Demonstrated experience with architecting, developing, and maintaining systems that enable and empower other teams within a software organization.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, capable of addressing complex, high-impact technical and operational issues.
• Deep understanding of operational excellence and incident management for internal systems.
• Proven ability to lead, mentor, and inspire a technical team, providing guidance and fostering professional development. Strong communication skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Experience with both software development and infrastructure management is big plus

We are looking for an experienced and innovative Team Lead to guide our Software Enablement team. This interdisciplinary team consists of software engineers and infrastructure specialists working together to solve complex problems that span development and infrastructure. The team is responsible for building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling, test automation scripts, and enabling efficient infrastructure provisioning for new services.
The Team Lead at YouLend is accountable for the technical and delivery outcomes for their team. This is a leadership role and when required, you are expected to write code and meaningfully contribute to the design of our systems. You should be able to understand, articulate and consider technical problems, and represent the work of your team both internally and externally and the value that brings to our customers.