Lead Full Stack Engineer
About Allica Bank
Allica is the UK’s fastest growing company - and the fastest-growing financial technology (Fintech) firm ever. Our purpose is to help established SMEs, one of the last major underserved opportunities in Fintech.
Established SMEs are the backbone of local communities - representing over a third of our economy - yet have been largely neglected both by traditional high street banks and modern fintech providers.
Role Description
- The Lead Full Stack Engineer is responsible for setting technical direction across multiple squads, typically overseeing 2–3 squads and line-managing 3–5 Full Stack Engineers. The role exists to shape architecture, ensure the success of these squads, and drive consistent, secure, and compliant delivery across Allica’s digital products.
- You will use your expertise in Spring Boot microservices (Java/Kotlin) and modern web technologies (React/TypeScript) to define and evolve cross-squad patterns, shared tooling, and platform capabilities.
- Our backend microservices are containerized and deployed to Azure Container Apps, and our web applications are deployed to Azure Static Web Apps; you will help define and uphold the standards that make these platforms robust, cost-effective, and easy to operate.
- You will own key cross-cutting concerns such as authentication, observability, performance, accessibility, and regulatory compliance, ensuring our systems meet the standards expected of a UK bank.
- You are hands-on: you design and review architectures, pair with engineers, and contribute code to high-impact initiatives.
- You work closely with Product, Design and other engineering leaders to align technical direction with business goals and to unblock delivery.
- You drive the responsible adoption of GenAI and agentic engineering practices (e.g. GitHub Copilot), setting organisation-wide standards and measuring impact.
- Success in this role is reflected in simpler architectures, improved delivery consistenc...