Job Description
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**
We power OakNorth's relationship–led lending with modern, modular tools across origination, underwriting, execution, and portfolio monitoring.
**The Role**
As a Staff Engineer, you’ll work with product and engineering across multiple squads to ensure the right trade-offs are being made and that dependencies and communication are managed effectively. Staff Engineers are the most visible engineers in the organization and demonstrate technical excellence and our cultural values across all squads and to teams across the wider organization.
**Key Responsibilities**
- Lead squads to sensible architectural decisions on the most complex technical problems.
- Measure your success in terms of business impact, not lines of code.
- Embrace DevOps culture: You build it, you run it.
- Work well cross-functionally and earn trust from co-workers at all levels.
- Prefer simple solutions and designs over complex ones.
**Nice to Have Skills**
- Experience with AI/LLM integrations and Generative AI applications.
- Knowledge of intelligent document processing and NLP techniques.
- Familiarity with vector databases (e.g., Pinecone, Weaviate) and search platforms (e.g., OpenSearch, Elasticsearch).
**Tech Stack**
- Python, PostgreSQL, BigQuery, MySQL
- TypeScript, React, styled-components
- AWS, GCP, ECS Fargate, Docker, Terraform, GitHub Actions
**How We Expect You to Work**
We expect you to work in cross-functional, mission-driven, autonomous squads that gel over time. We pair program to work better together.