Quality Engineering Lead
Who are we?
As an enterprise B2B2C company, our clients roll out our technology to improve their customers journey and enhance their financial outcomes. We do this through an API-first approach that streamlines access to our market-leading Categorisation, Decisioning, and Analytics engines, together with Payments Initiation. In doing so we deliver actionable insights with reduced transaction costs, accelerated settlements, and a safer, more convenient customer experience.
We’re a regulated entity offering AISP, PISP, and CISP services, trusted by leading banks, insurers, asset and wealth managers, pension companies, financial advisors, and fintechs to enhance financial outcomes for their clients.
💰 What do we offer?
Benefits include:
- 5% company contribution towards your Pension from your very first day with us. 3% contribution from your self.
- 25 days of holiday (plus bank hols), rising to 30 days after two years;
- Choose to take your entitlement to UK bank holidays at other times based on your own days of significance;
- Private medical insurance, including cover for pre-existing conditions, plus dental and optical benefit;
- 3 Months Moneyhubber Family Pay when you become a new parent;
- Permanent health insurance and life cover - much greater than the industry standard (death in service);
- Employee assistance programme;
- Professional development support, with dedicated allowance of time and money;
- Life event leave;
- Cycle to work scheme;EV Car Scheme
- £750 towards professional memberships
- Remote working benefits, including work from almost anywhere, access to co-working spaces and support for your home office set-up
- High spec laptop
- Holiday purchase
Requirements
Role Purpose
You act as a hands on technical owner and a strategic enabler within our Shape Up methodology. You ensure the team operates as high-risk guardrails rather than gatekeepers. You will lead the adoption of agentic workflows and AI tooling to ensure our engineering output remains high as we scale.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Quality Leadership
- Define the QA approach for the entire engineering organisation. Champion a shift where deep effort is focussed on high-stakes data areas with automated gates for low-risk changes.
- Drive the adoption of AI tools to improve quality and efficiency in software development. Implement agentic workflows to multiply the impact of the quality team.
- Embed QA effectively into Shape Up. Ensure QA is involved during the 'shaping' phase to identify risks and success criteria before code is written.
- Translate complex technical risks into business implications for stakeholders and product leads. Mentor tech leads to ensure quality is built into projects from the start.
Technical Excellence
- Design and maintain scalable test architectures that integrate into developer workflows.
- We build web apps, widgets and APIs in React and Node, and we also build heavily regulated high throughput Kafka data platforms for banks. You can’t know everything, but you should be willing to dig in alongside our developers to learn what you need to know to help us build safely.
- You will lead by example, writing performance and integration test harnesses, and debugging flaky UI tests with your team.
- Collaborate with the DevSecOps team on CI/CD pipelines, data integrity and security testing.
People & Enablement
- Manage and mentor a team of QA Engineers. You are responsible for their professional growth, as we shift left and transition from “testing” to “Quality Assurance Engineering”.
- Ensure "Quality" is owned by everyone. You will mentor Tech Leads on building quality in from the start, rather than relying on QA to "catch" bugs.
- Advocate for quality and influence engineering culture through strong, clear and direct written and verbal communication.
Skills & Competencies
- Proficiency in JavaScript or TypeScript with deep experience in Playwright or similar.
- Knowledge of PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and API testing tools like Dredd or Pact.
- Experience with (and a strong appetite for) using AI coding assistants and building agentic workflows.
- A history of getting engineering teams to shift left when it comes to Quality.
- Experience with ISO27001 (or equivalent) accredited software development teams.
- Proven experience building or testing software within a regulated environment (Fintech, Banking or similar). You understand the gravity of data accuracy at scale, PII protection, and the need for robust audit trails.
- Experience working in agile environments (ideally Shape Up) and using modern tools like Linear. You understand that "blocking a release" is a last resort, not a standard process.
- Direct, actionable communication style. You can translate technical risks into business implications for stakeholders. You own your function and know how to communicate Quality to a business.
Why this role matters
Our clients rely on us for mission-critical financial data. You are building intelligent safety systems that allow us to move fast without breaking things. By leveraging AI to automate routine tasks, you free up engineers to focus on innovation, knowing that the platform is secure and reliable.