Staff Engineer

At Multitude IT Labs, Staff Engineers are senior, hands-on technical experts operating across the whole organization. Their mission is to raise the engineering bar across the whole organisation by defining and evolving cross-cutting standards, toolchains, and practices, ensuring regulatory & compliance requirements are met, and introducing innovation that keeps our stack modern, reliable, and secure.

Core Responsibilities

• Define and evolve cross-cutting standards
  Develop and maintain organisation-wide architecture patterns, coding guidelines, software security practices, and toolchains.
• Ensure compliance & governance
  Translate relevant FinTech regulatory requirements into actionable engineering policies and oversee their adoption.
• Build shared assets
  Create and curate reusable frameworks, libraries, pipelines, and infrastructure that accelerate squads whilst remaining secure, observable, and auditable.
• Drive innovation
  Scout, evaluate, and pilot emerging technologies; lead proof of concept and guide adoption across teams. Define quality criteria for new solutions and participate in key technology decision making.
• Coach & mentor
  Level-up engineers through knowledge sharing sessions, design reviews, and formal mentorship.
• Improve quality
  Establish quality gates and continuous improvement initiatives to reduce tech debt and increase reliability.
• Define operational excellence & KPIs
  Partner with Lead Engineers and Heads of Technology to set measurable engineering KPIs—covering reliability, performance, efficiency, delivery throughput, and developer experience—and drive adoption and enable reporting across teams.
• Catalyst for change
  Guide teams in adopting improved standards, technologies, and practices. Assess existing technical setups, design effective solutions, and establish a strategic direction.
• Collaborate closely with technical leadership
  Work hand-in-hand with Lead Engineers, Heads of Technology, Security, and the IT Governance Manager to align technical strategy with business needs and regulatory landscape.

Success Measures

• Adoption of standards and tooling across squads (architecture, code, security).
• Translation of audit, compliance, and regulatory requirements into actionable SDLC practices, ensuring engineering teams meet FinTech standards effectively.
• Innovation and modernization of stack through piloting and rolling out new technologies.
• Mentoring and technical leadership resulting in team growth and positive feedback.
• Improved quality and engineering KPIs such as reduced tech debt, higher reliability, and throughput.

Ideal Candidate Profile

• Senior technical expert with experience in scalable systems and cloud-native development.
• Proven leadership in driving org-wide technical initiatives and engineering transformation.
• Change enabler and strategic influencer who drives alignment and leads adoption of new technologies, standards, and practices.
• Innovation-driven mindset with hands-on PoC and tech evaluation experience.
• Mentor and culture builder, focused on knowledge sharing and engineering excellence.
• Good command of English.

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