Role Overview
We are seeking a highly skilled and strategic Staff Engineer to join our growing Engineering department at our Norwich Head Office. In this pivotal role, you will lead the technical strategy and execution for a high-priority business initiative: our new Embedded Accountancy project.
As a technical leader, you will bridge the gap between robust system architecture and complex financial domains, collaborating closely with external partners like Sage to deliver a seamless user experience. If you are a platform-focused thinker with strong leadership capabilities and a passion for turning intricate financial requirements into scalable software solutions, this role offers an incredible opportunity for business-wide impact.
Key Responsibilities
- Drive Technical Delivery: Act as the technical lead overseeing the successful design, integration, and architecture of the Embedded Accountancy product ecosystem.
- System Integration: Collaborate closely with external financial service APIs (specifically Sage) to build robust, compliant, and highly secure ledger and bookkeeping syncing tools.
- Engineering Leadership: Provide exceptional mentorship, guidance, and strategic direction to engineering squads, fostering high standards for code quality, architectural integrity, and knowledge sharing.
- Cross-Functional Communication: Function as a primary technical translator between executive stakeholders, product managers, and engineering teams to align technical workflows with commercial business cases.
- Foster Best Practices: Champion a culture of excellence by establishing documentation standards, performance profiling frameworks, and robust system observability.
What We Are Looking For
Essential Experience:
- Proven experience operating at a Senior, Lead, or Staff Engineer level within a modern, cloud-native technology ecosystem.
- Strong foundations in building microservices, distributed system integration patterns, and data schema architecture.
- Exceptional technical leadership capabilities with a track record of driving cross-functional alignment and mentoring junior-to-mid-level engineers.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills;
Skills Required
- Proven experience operating at a Senior, Lead, or Staff Engineer level within a modern, cloud-native technology ecosystem.
- Experience integrating with external financial service APIs (specifically Sage) and building ledger/bookkeeping syncing tools.
- Strong foundations in building microservices, distributed system integration patterns, and data schema architecture.
- Exceptional technical leadership capabilities with a track record of driving cross-functional alignment and mentoring junior-to-mid-level engineers.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills to translate between executives, product, and engineering.
- Experience delivering secure and compliant financial services integrations and maintaining high standards for code quality and observability.
What We Do
Epos Now is a global payments and cloud-based software provider, focused on small and medium businesses in the retail, hospitality and personal care sectors. We specialise in the design and manufacture of electronic points of sale (commonly referred to as EPOS) as well as an integrated payments solution. Founded in 2011 by our Chief Executive, Jacyn Heavens, Epos Now is currently available in the United Kingdom, Ireland, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Spain and Mexico. Creators of the UK's first POS AppStore and winners of the prestigious Queen's Award for Innovation, we set the bar for POS excellence. Other accolades include the UK Business & Innovation Awards, International Business Award, Customer Experience Award, FT 1000 46th Fastest growing company in Europe and the two time winner of the Sunday Times Tech Track.
