Abound - Lead Software Engineer - Finance and Operations Automations
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Requirements
• Strong experience building production systems in Python, including async code, type hints, and a serious approach to testing • A product mindset — you measure success by the problem solved, not the ticket closed, and you're comfortable pushing back on requirements that don't make sense • Experience working directly with business stakeholders (Finance, Operations, Compliance, or similar) to understand how their function actually works, gather requirements, and translate them into reliable systems • Genuine interest in how finance and operations functions run — reconciliations, ledgers, reporting, payment flows, ops workflows — or a strong track record of picking up unfamiliar business domains quickly • Strong engineering judgement and the ability to make pragmatic technical trade-offs, especially when building for internal users where reliability and auditability matter more than novelty • Experience maintaining business-critical systems and supporting them in production • Strong sense of ownership across the full lifecycle: discovery, design, build, deployment, and support • Experience working with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) • Comfortable in fast-paced environments where accuracy, reliability, and clear communication are essential • Experience managing or formally line-managing engineers — this role can grow into a management role, but it's not required on day one • Prior experience automating finance, accounting, or operations workflows • Experience in lending, payments, or financial services more broadly • Exposure to data modelling for reporting, audit, or regulatory contexts
Responsibilities
• Partner with Finance and Operations leaders to identify the workflows where automation will have the highest impact, and shape a roadmap you can defend • Run discovery directly with stakeholders — sit with the team doing the work, map the process, challenge assumptions, and turn what you learn into clear requirements • Design and build Python services that automate finance and operations workflows end-to end, from data ingestion through to the reports, actions, and exceptions that land with business users • Translate business processes into clear technical plans, with the right level of detail for the team to deliver against • Lead a small team of engineers, supporting them through code review, pairing, and technical guidance; line management is available as the team grows and as your interests develop • Own the full software development lifecycle — design, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, and iteration • Provide second-line support during business hours, troubleshooting production issues that affect Finance and Operations users, and feeding what you learn back into the roadmap • Help structure the team's delivery process, including sprint planning, sizing, and retrospectives • Maintain strong engineering practices — testing standards, observability, and pragmatic technical decisions that balance speed today with maintainability tomorrow
Benefits
• Everyone owns a piece of the company — equity • Hybrid with 3 days a week in the office • 25 days' holiday a year, plus 8 bank holidays • 2 paid volunteering days per year • One month paid sabbatical after 4 years • Employee loan • Free gym membership • Team wellness budget to be active together — set up a yoga class, a tennis lesson or go bouldering
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