At OakNorth, we’re on a mission to empower the UK’s most ambitious businesses. Since 2015, we’ve lent over $18 billion across the UK and US, helped create more than 58,000 new homes and 36,000 new jobs, and supported hundreds of thousands of personal savers — all while fuelling the UK economy.
Team Mission 🚀
Our lending businesses are the engine of growth, complemented by newer lines in Business Banking and Personal Savings
Have a strong technical background, including6-7years of experience designing and engineering large scale systems
Measure your success in terms of business impact, not lines of code
Internalise the best ideas from across the organisation, humbly setting a vision that others can get behind
Embrace DevOps culture: You build it, you run it
Work well cross-functionally and earn trust from co-workers at all levels
Care deeply about mentorship and growing your colleagues
Prefer simple solutions and designs over complex ones
Enjoy working with a diverse group of people with different areas
of expertise.
You challenge the existing approach when you see the cliff edge racing towards us, but also get on board once the options have been debated and the team has made a decision
You're comfortably organised amongst chaos
You’re a broad thinker and have the capability to see the potential
impact of decisions across the wider business
Utilise GenerativeAI: Leverage GenAI tools to increase productivity
and enhance decision making processes within the role
Nice-to-Have Skills 👋
Experience with AI in Software Development Life Cycle
Exposure to agentic workflows or orchestration frameworks for multi-
step AI reasoning, and familiarity with MCP (Model Context Protocol)
Technology
We're pragmatic about our technology choices. These are some of the
things we use at the moment:
React Native
PostgreSQL, BigQuery, MySQL🗄️
🎨 TypeScript, styled-components
🎨Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress, pytest
AWS, GCP☁️
🎨ECS Fargate, Docker, Terraform, GitHub Actions
