Murmuration
Tech Lead - Issuer Processor (AI Native)
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The Role
As a Tech Lead at Murmuration, you'll take ownership of the Issuer Processor build that will be used to process cards and card payments for credit union members. Working in a small team, you will mentor and support your fellow engineers to maximise the quality of the processor whilst working as efficiently as possible. We work in an AI-native way: we expect you to be fluent with AI coding tools and have enough confidence in your own abilities to support and develop the team in working this way. Reporting to the Chief Technology Officer, you'll be one of the first engineers here, with a real say in the product and how it's built.
About Murmuration
Murmuration is a new technology company building the core platform that credit unions run on. We provide the software, payments, and data infrastructure that lets a credit union offer its members modern digital banking without having to build or run the technology itself.
Credit unions are member-owned and rooted in their communities, but many still operate on systems that are decades old, which limits what they can offer their members. We're building the alternative.
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We're a new company, putting our platform and our first engineering team in place now, with the backing of an established group. For people who join early, that means a real say in the product, the architecture, and how the company works.
What you'll be doing
- Leading and mentoring the issuer processor engineering team
- Enforcing quality standards in the delivered builds
- Working closely with the other disciplines to ensure the issuer processor meets the required compliance standards and requirements of the scheme providers.
- Leading the architecture and technical decisions whilst ensuring the team are bought into those decisions
- Write automated tests, review other people's code, and help set the engineering standards here
- Work closely with product, design, and the platform and payments engineers
What you'll bring to Murmuration
- Experience building asynchronous event driven systems
- Strong experience in mentoring and leading small engineering teams
- Strong experience with Java, Kotlin or Scala
- Strong experience with database technologies (e.g. Postgres, MySql, SqlServer, DynamoDB, CosmosDB)
- Strong experience integrating third-party services
- Fluency with AI coding tools as part of your day-to-day work, and a sensible view on where they help and where they don't
- A strong grounding in the fundamentals: testing, version control, CI/CD, and secure coding
- Comfortable working at an early stage, with a lot of ownership
- An interest in fintech, payments, or financial inclusion
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Standout candidates will also...
- Experience in designing, building and maintaining issuer processors
- Experience in designing and building greenfield platforms
- Experience in fintech, banking, payments, or another regulated or high-trust domain
- Experience with cloud-native development (AWS/Azure/GCP), containers, and infrastructure-as-code
- Experience setting engineering standards or mentoring a small team
Benefits
- Salary of £80,000 – £95,000 depending on experience
- 30 days holiday per year plus Bank Holidays
- Hybrid working from our Manchester office
- Company pension scheme
- An early, hands-on role building a new platform and team
- Structured career path with support for ongoing learning and development
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