At OakNorth, we’re on a mission to empower the UK’s most ambitious businesses. Since 2015, we’ve lent over $21 billion across the UK and US, helped create more than 58,000 new homes and 36,000 new jobs, and supported hundreds of thousands of personal savers — all while fuelling the UK economy.
Team Mission 🚀
Our lending businesses are the engine of growth, complemented by newer lines in Business Banking and Personal Savings
- Have a strong technical background, including 8 + years of experience designing and engineering large scale systems
- Measure your success in terms of business impact, not lines of code
- Internalise the best ideas from across the organisation, humbly setting a vision that others can get behind
- Embrace DevOps culture: You build it, you run it
- Work well cross-functionally and earn trust from co-workers at all levels
- Care deeply about mentorship and growing your colleagues
- Prefer simple solutions and designs over complex ones
- Enjoy working with a diverse group of people with different areas
of expertise.
- You challenge the existing approach when you see the cliff edge racing towards us, but also get on board once the options have been debated and the team has made a decision
- You're comfortably organised amongst chaos
- You’re a broad thinker and have the capability to see the potential
- impact of decisions across the wider business
- Utilise GenerativeAI: Leverage GenAI tools to increase productivity
- and enhance decision making processes within the role
Nice-to-Have Skills 👋- Experience with AI in Software Development Life Cycle
- Exposure to agentic workflows or orchestration frameworks for multi-
- step AI reasoning, and familiarity with MCP (Model Context Protocol)
Technology- We're pragmatic about our technology choices. These are some of the
- things we use at the moment:
- React Native
- PostgreSQL, BigQuery, MySQL🗄️
- 🎨 TypeScript, styled-components
- 🎨Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress, pytest
- AWS, GCP☁️
- 🎨ECS Fargate, Docker, Terraform, GitHub Actions