Lead Engineer
About Blenheim Chalcot
Blenheim Chalcot is one of the leading venture builders in the world. We have been building exciting and disruptive businesses for over 20 years across sectors including FinTech, EdTech, GovTech, Media, Sport, Charity and more. These companies are all GenAI enabled and are some of the most innovative companies in the UK and increasingly around the world.
Headquartered in London from our flagship White City Scale Space campus, we have been building exciting and disruptive businesses for over 25 years. Our ventures are at the forefront of a multitude of industries being disrupted by digital including FinTech, EdTech, GovTech, Media, Sport, Charity and more. We are highly entrepreneurial and seek opportunities where digital and Gen AI technologies can disrupt major markets - ventures we have built include, Salary Finance, Modulr and the Rajasthan Royals cricket team.
Many of the companies within the portfolio have materialised from ideas conceived and launched by us, and we have over 4,000 employees to support their growth and development. Our assets under management stand at more than £1.8bn and total portfolio revenue is over £500 million.
Our one of our fintech ventures is scaling fast and we’re looking to hire high energy, motivated and curious talent to support them on that journey!
The role
The Lead Engineer is a brand-new role in our Fintech’s Engineering team. We ‘re looking for an experienced software engineer who can be individually productive in development, infrastructure configuration and deployment, or manage and mentor a team of engineers, leading by example. You will be pioneering new projects while navigating the inherent ambiguity and adjustments that come with early-stage development. The Lead Engineer will be comfortable across the software development spectrum, from coding and tooling to infrastructure, and adept at various development processes, plus adapt to new technologies and environment.
On top of your technical expertise, you'll be a champion for your team, empowering each member and fostering a collaborative environment. Looking to seek improvements in productivity and quality is essential for constant innovation, and you will act as the glue that brings consistency and alignment across different engineering disciplines and departments.
About you
The ideal candidate 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 is essential to being successful in this role.
- 5+ years of experience with React.js and/or Next.js
- 5+ years of experience with Node.js (Express.js, Fastify, etc)
- 3+ years of experience with Python (FastAPI, Flask, Django, etc)
- Prior experience with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines
- Actively participates in architecture and system design discussions, with a focus on scalability, performance, and maintainability
- Familiar with testing methodologies and working with QA people.
- Knows and has experience with writing clear documentation
- Action-oriented and excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive the product forward
- Knowledge of containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes
- Git and Jira experience is essential
- Understands agile methodologies and is used to working in an agile environment
Nice to have:
- Contributions to open-source projects or a strong presence in the dev community
- Has led a team of engineers including one or more senior engineers
- Familiarity with microservices architecture and related paradigms
- Experience with some cloud platform (preferably GCP)
- Experience with LLMs and have tinkered with ChatGPT, Bard, llama2, etc
Important
We have a rigorous recruitment process, which we use for all our roles to ensure we attract the very best talent.
Please note we are office based which requires our colleagues to be together in the office 5 days a week with flexibility around personal commitments, interests and obligations. This ensures we have the opportunity to continuously collaborate with the whole portfolio to stay connected and grow our community.
Blenheim Chalcot is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer. Diversity is one of our core values, thus making it core to our business. We strive to maximise the diversity of our workforce and welcome applications from everyone. We encourage diversity through perspective, background, identity, and thought whilst also fostering an environment where everyone can express themselves regardless of your race, religion, sex, gender, colour, national origin, disability, or any other applicable legally protected characteristic. We are committed to continuing to nurture an inclusive environment and building a diverse workforce.
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What We Do
We are venture builders, not venture capitalists. We invest more than just funds; we invest our knowledge and experience, our ideas and our infrastructure. Our approach to transforming industries has always been the same. We identify high growth sectors, typically undergoing some market, technology or regulatory discontinuity, and look to build scalable platforms that satisfy a real customer need. We aim to build profitable companies, with sustainable business models. Working alongside entrepreneurs and co-founders, we support our ventures from startup to scale to exit, giving them access to the global networks and business development services they need to grow. This support is bolstered by the innovation partnerships we forge with big businesses. Our digital expertise helps them be more agile, while their global scope helps our ventures scale faster. Founded in 1998 Blenheim Chalcot traces its roots back to Netdecisions, the internet services group. Already back then we set out to build companies to transform industry sectors. And since then we’ve become the UK’s leading venture builder, with portfolio sales of over £350m, more than 3,000 employees, and a successful track record of over 40 companies. We operate internationally with offices in: - London, UK (HQ) - Mumbai, India - Tampa, USA - Cape Town, South Africa
