Wagestream is on a mission to bring better financial wellbeing to frontline workers.

We partner with some of the world’s most famous employers, like Bupa, Burger King, Green King and the mighty NHS to give their teams access to fairer financial services - all built around flexible pay. Over three million people can now choose how often they’re paid, track their shifts and earnings, start saving, use budgeting tools, get free financial coaching, and access fairer financial products. All in one financial wellbeing super-app.

Wagestream is unique: VC-backed and growing at scale-up pace, but with a social conscience. Some of the world's leading financial charities and impact funds were our founding investors, and we operate on a social charter - which means every product we build has to improve financial health and reduce the $5.6bn ‘premium’ lower-income earners pay for financial services each year.

You’d be joining a team of over 200 passionate, ambitious people, across Europe and the USA, building a category-leading fintech product and all united by that same mission.

The Opportunity:

We’re looking for a new Director of Engineering to help lead the regulated side of our business. This role offers the opportunity to own the technical vision and success of our credit products, which are central to the companies growth.

This is not just a people leadership role, we want engineering leaders who  are technically capable and can be respected by engineers of any level, be it deep architecture knowledge, still coding and of course, up for getting your hands dirty when required.

Even if you're not at this level currently we're keen on growing talented leaders. If you're an ambitious Head of Engineering or Senior Engineering Manager and ready for the next jump in your career, please apply.

What will you be doing?

• Lead with Impact - Drive a culture of ownership, high-performance, and outcome-driven delivery
• Own the Roadmap – Deliver on business goals and execute a technical strategy aligned with growth target, balancing speed with scalability
• Technical Authority – Guide engineering decisions, drive architectural evolution, contribute to technical spikes, and ensure best practices
• Proactive GRC - Ensure your products meet risk, compliance, and regulatory requirements, staying ahead of potential challenges
• Drive Operational Excellence – Oversee monitoring, incident response, bug fixes, and SLAs, ensuring continuous improvement
• Cross-Functional Leadership – Partner with non-technical peers to drive success across product, credit, risk, compliance, and operations.
• Stay Ahead of the Curve: Keep up-to-date with the latest technologies, trends, and industry best practices, and assess their potential to enhance your products

What experience might you have?

• Regulated or Consumer Credit Expertise – Experience in consumer credit, fintech, or regulated environments
  
• Strong Stakeholder Management - Enjoys managing multiple stakeholders as much as being in technical discussions
• Proven Leadership - History of leading senior ICs and/or engineering leaders in fast-moving teams
• Scalability Experience: Demonstrable success in building and scaling platforms and products in a fast-paced environment
• Decision-Making: Experience making complex risk and revenue trade-offs between many competing priorities
• Passion for Social Impact: A commitment to leveraging technology for positive change, aligning with our mission-driven focus.
• Technical Expertise: Up-to-date and evolving knowledge in software development, architecture, and modern technologies.

Working Policy: Hybrid, with three office days per week

Benefits:

• 25 Days Annual Leave in addition to public holidays (up to 5 day rollover), as well as flexible time off allowances for any ad-hoc childcare/family/caring needs
• 10 days Annual Leave Buy-Back scheme
• 24 weeks' paid Maternity Leave and 4 weeks paid Paternity Leave for employees with over 12 months service
• Special Leave for In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) and other fertility treatments
• Sabbatical scheme
• Paid leave to volunteer
• Work from Abroad policy
• Private Healthcare including comprehensive mental-, physical- and dental healthcare
• Salary sacrifice to pension, as well as bonus exchange to Pension: reap even more rewards of any bonus by paying into your pension & save on Tax and NI + added compound growth
• Season Ticket Loan
• The best benefit of all, access to Wagestream!
• Access to Salary Sacrifice Schemes via ThanksBen: THE Benefits marketplace. Choose the benefits you want, when you want. Pay less tax, receive more value

Additional:

• Additional Pension Payments
• Workplace nurseries
• Cycle to Work
• Home and Tech Scheme
• Healthcare cash plans, etc

At Wagestream we celebrate and support our differences. We know employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, our product and our community to flourish. Wagestream is an equal opportunity workplace. We are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity/expression, or veteran status.