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 🚀
The Core Banking team owns the foundational systems that power our financial products and ensure the integrity of our data and processes.
Own the financial accounts domain, including the design, creation, and lifecycle of financial products, ensuring they are compliant, scalable, and seamlessly integrated with the ledgerand third-party systems.
Manage our ledger (Thought Machine Vault Core), covering its integration, data integrity, and technical migrations, while maintaining a close partnership with the Thought Machine team.
Build resilient, event-driven systems that ensure data consistency and traceability across internal platforms and external services.
Support financial and regulatory reporting, including reconciliations and compliance obligations such as FSCS.
Provide the systems and data models that ensure auditability, accuracy, and trust, from customer balances to external reports
The role 👋
- Have a strong technical background, including 5+ 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.