Engineering Lead - Barclaycard Payments

About the role

As an Engineering Lead within Barclaycard Payments, you will help shape and deliver customer-facing products for one of the UK's leading payments businesses. You will combine hands-on technical expertise with people leadership, guiding engineering teams, influencing technical direction and driving scalable, resilient solutions. The role leads a Product Delivery team responsible for building, delivering and operating products end-to-end, working closely with Engineering, Product and business stakeholders.

Key responsibilities

• Lead a Product Delivery team and support the development of engineers, improve delivery practices and ensure technology solutions meet customer and business needs.
• Design, develop and improve software using industry-aligned programming languages, frameworks and tools, keeping code scalable, maintainable and performance-optimised.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers and other engineers on requirements, solution strategies and integration.
• Take part in code reviews, promote code quality and knowledge sharing, and stay informed of technology trends.
• Follow secure coding practices and implement effective unit testing.
• Manage risk, advise stakeholders and senior management, and uphold the Barclays values and mindset.

Required profile

• Proven experience leading engineering teams and delivering technology solutions in production.
• Extensive software engineering experience with a broad understanding of modern technology stacks.
• People leadership experience, including coaching, development and performance management.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience applying agile or lean delivery practices.

Required skills

• Additional value: payments, fintech or technology-led environments, and knowledge of AI, machine learning or emerging trends.
• Value-add: Rust, Kotlin, TypeScript, cloud-native platforms, Kubernetes, DevOps, CI/CD, event-driven architecture and messaging technologies.

What we offer

• Permanent contract, based in London with a hybrid model (three days per week in the office).
• Competitive holiday allowance, life assurance, private medical care and pension contribution.