Head of Quality Engineering

Lendable is on a mission to build the world's best technology to help people get credit and save money. We're building one of the world’s leading fintech companies and are off to a strong start:

• One of the UK’s most exciting unicorns with a team of over 800 people

• Among the fastest-growing tech companies in the UK

• Profitable since 2017

• Backed by top investors including Balderton Capital and Goldman Sachs

• At least 7 years in quality related roles.

• Run a number of QA initiatives across an organisation to improve the quality output across engineering teams.

• Proven senior stakeholder management.

• Experience working with quality across the stack. You have hands-on experience of testing backends and frontends. From functional to unit, performance and accessibility testing.

• Have line managed a small team.

• Worked with B2C products at scale (millions of users).

• Experience shaping CI/CD pipelines for test reliability (GitHub Actions or similar), including flakiness reduction, parallelisation, artefact management, and runtime control.

• Have shipped AI tooling into a quality process — this can be as simple as evaluating, buying and rolling out an off-the-shelf AI testing tool, through to building bespoke agents. You can describe the impact it had on how teams worked.

• Proactive, low-ego, and clear communicator, able to chase things down when blocked.
  

• Experience with using Datadog, Sentry or similar for monitoring.

• Experience with incident.io or similar incident process.

• Have managed SLOs and used them to improve quality.

• Experience in financial services or other regulated B2C environments.

• Mobile app testing experience (e.g. Maestro, native iOS/Android, React Native).

Why join?

See your work matter: Our products are used by millions of customers. Improving quality ensures issues and outages don’t affect a large population across continents. Quality issues also have a direct impact on company revenue. As we scale further, quality plays a big part in our growth.

High autonomy: You will decide where and how to engage across the organisation to improve quality. You will hire a team of Quality Engineers to deploy into teams.

Work at the frontier of AI: AI tooling for quality is moving fast. You'll be one of the people deciding how we apply it - what's useful, what isn't, and where to have humans in the loop.

An organisation that ships: No layers, no theatre, fast decisions. A fast moving environment that has made the company successful.

Interview process

1. Screening Call with the Talent Team

2. Hiring Manager Call

3. VP of Engineering Call

4. Technical Interview

5. Final stage with our CTO

• Winning team: the opportunity to scale up one of the world’s most successful fintech companies

• Flexible working: flexible approach tailored to each role. Hybrid roles require three days in-office weekly; fully remote roles include regular opportunities for in-person connection through socials and off-sites

• Socials & connection: opportunities and events to come together, socialise, and get to know each other beyond the office walls

• Health coverage: support for your physical and mental wellbeing, including private health cover

• Retirement & savings: long-term financial wellbeing through retirement savings plans

• Employee referral programme: earn a competitive bonus when you refer successful new team members

• Office meals & snacks: enjoy a fully stocked kitchen, plus complimentary lunches prepared by in-house chefs on in-office days at select locations

• Sustainable commuting: cycle-to-work and electric vehicle salary sacrifice schemes available in select locations

Please note: The availability and details of specific benefits vary by location and role. For more information, please speak to your Talent Partner.

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