Job Description
Head of Engineering | Financial Services | Northampton | Permanent
Salary £75,000 - £85,000 (depending on experience, plus uncapped annual bonus typically ranging from 5% to 15% of basic salary)
Overview
The Head of Engineering will play a pivotal role in leading the architecture, development, and optimisation of internal applications, web tools, and integrations across our wider technology stack (including Zoho, AWS and custom web applications). This is both a hands-on technical and leadership role, responsible not only for building high-quality, scalable systems but also for implementing and maintaining modern development, coding, and deployment practices across the team.
Beyond your own coding contributions, you will take ownership of establishing robust engineering standards, CI/CD pipelines, version control workflows, and peer review processes to ensure consistent code quality, reliability, and scalability. Working closely with stakeholders, CRM developers, and other full stack developers, you will drive continuous improvement, mentor team members, and help shape the technical direction that supports Portman Finance Group’s growth and innovation in the FinTech space.
Responsibilities