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

• 7+ years of experience in software development, preferably .NET, and at least 2 years of experience in a Platform or DevOps role.
• At least 2+ years in a team lead or engineering leadership role.
• Strong technical background in software development practices, with experience in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, automation, version control systems (Git), cloud infrastructure (preferably AWS) and IaC.
• Hands-on experience with developer tools such as Jenkins, Azure DevOps, 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.
• Experience measuring the productivity of Software Engineering teams with metrics such as DORA, SPACE or Core 4.
• 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.

DESIRABLE SKILLS

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent experience).

THE ROLE

We are looking for an experienced and innovative Team Lead to guide our Dev Enablement team. Our mission is to remove friction from the developer workflow and empower teams to ship high-quality code faster through reliable tooling, support, and platform automation. This interdisciplinary team consists of platform engineers with backgrounds in software engineering and DevOps working together to solve complex problems that span development and infrastructure.
This is a customer-centric team obsessing about the needs of our product software engineers to help them move faster and be more productive. 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.