• Are you curious, excited by experimentation and always looking for a better way of doing things?  
• Do you want to keep learning and developing whilst also developing others around you?
• Do you want to have the opportunity to lead and develop people to apply technology to transform the way we operate at scale.

If so, we would love to hear from you!

We are looking to hire ambitious and talented people  to join Modulr, the fastest growing payments business in the UK and Europe. The Platform Squad Lead will play a key role in leading and shaping the engineers around them to deliver excellence in all they do, helping us to continue to deliver and innovate for our customers.

About Us

At Modulr our mission is to move money efficiently to power business productivity. We are building a new digital payments service to make money flow more efficiently through businesses and the economy. This is a new type of payments account that is built for businesses that need faster, easier, and more reliable ways to move money.

Our flexible platform and innovative approach allows our customers to utilise our payments account instead of a traditional bank account. Our accounts come with a sort code and account number, access to payment systems (e.g. Faster Payments and Visa) and everything our customers need from a payments account. They can instantly open as many accounts as they need, automate how they make and receive payments as well as the reconciliation processes these create. All in real time, 24/7 through their own systems utilising our API that integrates into any platform.

Our founding team has a wealth of experience in the payments industry and growing successful businesses. Modulr is backed by payments giants PayPal Ventures and FIS Ventures, as well as startup and scale up specialists Blenheim Chalcot, General Atlantic, Frog and Highland Europe which enables us to leverage their resources and expertise to drive our growth initiatives. These partnerships provide us with the necessary provisions to propel our business to new heights.

• Build the extraordinary and go that extra mile
• Own the opportunity, be passionate and proud of your achievements,
• Move at pace, reach your goals faster with us supporting you each step of the way
• Achieve it together, work as a Modulite, as part of a team

The Role

The Platform Squad Lead is a vital role within Modulr. In this role you will be responsible for overseeing Platform engineers, driving efficiency, and ensuring high-quality delivery. The role is a blend of technical leadership, process improvement, and operational excellence.

In this role you will develop a high performing squad to foster an environment where agency is the priority and, where appropriate, decisions are ou will work closely with your Engineering manager to communicate progress and achievements whilst delivering through others.

The successful Platform Squad lead will play a key role in leading and shaping their squad to deliver excellence in all they do, helping us to continue to deliver and innovate for our customers.

Key responsibilities

You will need to be comfortable doing the following:

• Coach and lead a squad of approximately six Platform engineers on a day-to-day basis, fostering a culture of collaboration and high performance.
• Regularly review code to help all engineers grow and develop, to help individuals to progress through the Modulr career framework.
• Communicate with Modulites across all levels about your squad’s progress and any challenges they are facing.[DJ1]
• Squad planning and delegation of tasks to ensure the team are in the right roles with clearly defined responsibilities and projects are resourced appropriately to ensure success.
• Play a key role in the hiring process including interviewing, assessing candidates, and representing Modulr’s mission, strategy, and culture throughout the interview process.
• Oversee the onboarding process for new joiners to ensure a smooth transition into the team.
• Drive people development activity including conducting regular team meetings, one-on-ones, and performance reviews.
• Work with the DevOps Manager to set and track performance goals for individual team members, and the squad as a whole, providing constructive feedback and recognition as appropriate.
• Develop, and experiment with, new standards and patterns to continuously improve the technical excellence of the team.
• Use your experience to lead and guide on architectural decisions
• Identify and implement process improvements to increase efficiency and effectiveness.
• Identify potential risks and mitigate them to ensure the success of projects.
• Foster a culture of experimentation within the squad to facilitate continuous learning and improvement.
• Regularly report on the squad's progress, outcomes, and achievements to the wider Engineering organisation and to their Engineering Manager.
• Actively seek and share squad experiences within the wider Engineering organisation to promote cross-team learning and collaboration.

The Team:

You will be part of our high-performing engineering team that works cross-functionally to drive change for our customers and internal operations teams. This role will report into one of our Engineering Managers, working day-to-day with engineers in your squad and business stakeholders to deliver on our roadmap.

Our Tech Stack

The Platform team is responsible for supporting the foundations used to build and operate our embedded payments solution, which is made up of microservices written in Java using Spring Boot. Some of the technologies we use to do this include:

• Containers: Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service), Kubernetes, Docker, and Helm
• Infrastructure-as-code: Terraform
• Configuration Management: Amazon EC2 and Saltstack
• CI/CD: Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD
• Data/Messaging: Amazon Aurora (Postgres), ElastiCache (Redis), AmazonMQ (RabbitMQ)
• API: Tyk API Gateway, Apache
• Monitoring/Logging: Datadog and SumoLogic
• Security: IAM (Identity Access Management), Security Groups, mTLS
• Other: VPC and general networking

About you:

The successful Platform Squad Lead will have a track-record in delivering results in a fast-moving business and hence be comfortable with change and uncertainty. Excellent stakeholder management experience while being able to code to an exceptional standard is essential to being successful in this role.

• Demonstrable years of experience as a Senior Platform engineer or equivalent.
• Recent hands-on delivery examples
• Strong understanding of platform engineering processes and practices.
• Previous experience managing/mentoring multi-site technical teams in an agile environment.
• Proven experience in platform development and team leadership.
• Participated in the hiring process to recruit skilled engineers and led the onboarding process to integrate new hires into the team smoothly.
• Provided technical leadership in several areas of platform development and stayed updated with the latest industry trends.
• Conducted regular performance reviews and provided constructive feedback to the team members.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work under pressure.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with a proven ability to manage and motivate a team.