The Role
The Software Engineer will design and engineer large scale systems, embrace DevOps practices, mentor colleagues, and utilize Generative AI tools. Strong collaboration and a focus on business impact are essential.
Summary Generated by Built In
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 🚀
Role
- Have a strong technical background, including 5+ years 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 decisionYou'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
Desired Technology 🧱
- We're pragmatic about our technology choices. These are some of the things we use at the moment:
- 🗃 Python
- 🗄️ PostgreSQL, BigQuery, MySQL
- 🎨 TypeScript, React, styled-components
- 🔧 Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress, pytest
- ☁️ AWS, GCP
- 🚀 ECS Fargate, Docker, Terraform, GitHub Actions
Nice-to-Have Skills
- Experience with AI/LLM integrations and Generative AI applications
- Knowledge of intelligent document processing and NLP techniques
- Familiarity with vector databases (e.g., Pinecone, Weaviate) and search platforms (e.g., OpenSearch, Elasticsearch)
- Exposure to agentic workflows or orchestration frameworks for multi-step AI reasoning, and familiarity with MCP (Model Context Protocol)
Top Skills
AWS
BigQuery
Cypress
Docker
Ecs Fargate
GCP
Github Actions
Jest
MySQL
Postgres
Pytest
Python
React
React Testing Library
Styled-Components
Terraform
Typescript
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The Company
What We Do
Launched in 2015, OakNorth helps the UK’s most ambitious businesses access the fast, flexible finance they need to scale, while helping savers make their money go further.
With funding ranging from £250,000 to tens of millions, we have lent billions to businesses across a whole range of sectors, performing among the top 1% of commercial banks globally.
To date, OakNorth financing has helped create tens of thousands of new jobs and affordable homes.
