Cloud Engineering Team Lead

Were Capital on Tap
Capital on Tap started because small businesses were underserved. Big banks were slow their products werent fit for purpose and small business owners often couldnt access what they needed. We set out to fix that.

Today were a financial platform - not just a credit card company. We offer a best-in-class business credit card SME-focused spend management platform a savings product that hit 1 billion in funds within its first year and a growing suite of tools and financial products that make running a small business easier.

1000 employees 20bn in annual card spend 200000 customers 17000 Trustpilot reviews averaging 4.7 stars and were profitable. Weve done a pretty good job so far but were just getting started!

London (Old Street) 2 Days in the Office

Cloud Engineering

Cloud Engineering owns the foundations of Capital on Taps global engineering effort - the core infrastructure tooling and standards everything else is built on. We arent just running a platform; were pushing the technical limits of what cloud infrastructure can achieve

What youll be doing

• Champion a culture of continuous improvement providing meaningful mentorship and constructive feedback that helps engineers grow.
• Driving team performance by resolving bottlenecks fostering accountability and sustaining high engagement to ensure consistent delivery & resource efficiency.
• Driving the adoption of AI within the team ranging from day to day operations to large scale projects.
• Foster open transparent communication across remote hybrid and in-person environments.
• Stay hands on in cloud engineering leading by example at a technical level.
• Defining and enforcing cloud engineering best practices that ensure consistency scalability and operational excellence across the organisation.
• Partner with Product Managers Engineering Managers and QA to align strategy and turn ideas into well-executed outcomes.
• Contribute to product decisions bringing a cloud perspective that balances speed quality and scalability.
• Proactively identify and mitigate risk before they come blockers.
• Embed DevSecOps principles; ensuring security monitoring compliance and automation are built in from the start.

Our Values & Culture

• Just Pilot: We never settle for good enough. We pilot new ideas fast ask questions to figure it out and scale quickly.
• Why Not Today Fast is as slow as we go - speed and simplicity gives us a competitive advantage.
• Be a Buddy: We tap in from day one to help the team we do the right thing even if its hard.
• Owners and Dates: We dont chase people. If you own a task and agree to a date the expectation is that it gets done.
• Feedback: We want our employees to flourish so we regularly provide direct and constructive feedback.

What are we looking for

• A track record of leading and delivering complex projects.
• Experience leading or mentoring engineers and the appetite to own the full management remit from hiring and development through to the harder people conversations.
• Extensive experience managing public cloud environments.
• Proficient in contributing to IaC technologies involving expertise in writing managing and optimising infrastructure with tools such as Terraform.
• Experience using CI/CD tools building pipelines templates and troubleshooting.
• Experience with applying high availability across cloud architectures ideally including multi-cloud.
• Experience with containerisation technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker.
• A customer-focused commercially aware and data-informed approach to your decision making.
• Ability to manage cross-team dependencies collaborating effectively with Platform SRE Product and other stakeholders.

Even if you dont have all of the necessary skills we still encourage you to apply.

Interview process

• First stage: 30 minute intro and values call with Talent Partner
• Second stage: 60 minute technical interview with the Engineering Manager & People Partner
• Third stage: 60 minute live technical challenge with the Platform team
• Fourth stage: 60 minute case study with Product the Engineering Manager & Head of Platform Operations

Diversity & Inclusion
We welcome consider and encourage applications from anyone who shares our commitment to inclusivity. Join us in creating a space where authenticity thrives and everyone can do their best work.

Great Work Deserves Great Perks
We try not to take ourselves too seriously (all the time) so we make sure our office is decked out with a pool table arcade machine beer tap and a couple of office dogs thrown in for good measure. Check out our benefits:

Private Healthcare including dental and opticians services through Vitality
Worldwide travel insurance through Vitality
Anniversary Rewards (-week fully paid sabbatical)
Salary Sacrifice Pension Scheme up to 7% match
28 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
Annual Learning and Wellbeing Budget
Enhanced Parental Leave
Cycle to Work Scheme
Season Ticket Loan
6 free therapy sessions per year
Dog Friendly Offices
Free drinks and snacks in our offices

Check out more of our benefits values and mission here.

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Email if you have any questions.

Excited to work here Apply!
If youd like to progress your career within our fast growing profitable fintech then click apply and we will aim to get back to you within 3 working days (during busy periods this could take up to 5 working days.)

Required Experience:

Manager

Employment Type : Full Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1