Engineering Lead – Client Projects Full Time

Quant is the foundation of the blockchain economy.

Assets of all kinds, from currencies to carbon credits, are being tokenised on blockchain, making their ownership immutable, their provenance traceable and their use manageable. Our patent-pending technology makes this simple, trusted and future-proof.

We work with financial institutions and corporates to dramatically reduce their time-to-market, create new revenue lines, and mitigate risk by delivering enterprise-grade solutions built with security and compliance front of mind.

Founded in 2018, Quant is UK-based with a US presence. We spearheaded the Blockchain ISO Standard TC307 adopted by 57 countries and solved interoperability with the creation of the world’s first blockchain-agnostic API gateway, Overledger.

The Client Project Team

Our Client Project Team supports our customers by understanding their current goals and opportunities for implementing new ideas, creating process improvements, and driving operational efficiencies across their businesses. The Team are accountable for translating customer needs and requirements into holistic project proposals that are then actioned internally and successfully delivered to the customer, helping them become even more efficient, agile and competitive in the market in which they operate.

The Role

As the Engineering Lead – Client Projects, you will be an integral part of the team building bespoke customer projects. This involves leading the technical members of your squad, partnering with other functions represented within your squad, and focusing on effectively delivering value to customers. You will do this by setting clear objectives, supporting engineer development and growth, highlighting areas of improvement, translating acceptance criteria into clearly defined designs, writing clean and efficient code for various customer projects, running tests to improve system functionality, and delivering solutions to production. Ultimately, you’ll implement and maintain components and frameworks throughout the development lifecycle whilst setting the example of how Client Projects operate at Quant.

Requirements

• Squad Focused: Prioritise effectiveness of the squad above individual needs. Lead recruiting efforts and determine headcount for the squad. Coach and manage others into key roles within the squad. Set squad members up to the skill requirements within the squad
• Prioritisation & Execution: Demonstrate an understanding of and connect work to strategic objectives. Proactive in identifying and clearing roadblocks for the squad. Add input such as innovative approaches, ideas, estimations and feasibility insights to high level strategy and estimation sessions for future deliverables and place such ideas within the context of Quant’s projects
• Design: Effectively assess risks and rewards of different approaches. Demonstrate technical decision-making that weighs short and long-term considerations. Decide on solution and implementation path, while allowing the squad to have high autonomy
• Code: Ensure squad software is monitorable. Identify areas of strategic technical debt and provide cost/benefit analysis for eliminating this debt and suggested timelines for how to prioritise it
• Test: Set high quality standards for self and others
• Teamwork: Demonstrate and promote inclusive behaviours. Build relationships both within and outside of your workgroup. Comfortably manage squad members with different skill sets and technical areas of focus. Share your own experience and expertise with others. Key resource for performance management and performance reviews by helping managers make decisions when it comes to performance. Collaborate with key cross-functional stakeholders (Product, Engineering, Systems and Product Marketing) to develop, validate and deliver project solutions to solve specific customer requirements
• Application Lifecycle Management: Strong critical thinker and proponent of innovative improvements within the various processes. Proposes new processes and best practices within the squad, Client Projects, and all other departments. Understand and practice agile software development and management. Partner effectively with delivery manager to produce quality metrics on the SDLC process. Support Client Project engagements by supporting the diagnosis and translation of customer Project requirements into a project delivery plan, and then supporting the internal team to ensure the project is successfully executed in accordance with the specification and project milestones agreed with the customer

The technology and tools you will be using

• Technologies: Java, Webflux/Project Reactor, Spring Boot, JavaScript, TypeScript, VueJS, NodeJS, ExpressJS, HTML/CSS, RabbitMQ
• Tools: Git, JenkinsX, RestAssured, Postman, Prometheus/Grafana, Jest, Playwright, Outsystems, Webpack
• Platform: Kubernetes, Docker, AWS
• Databases: MongoDB, PostgreSQL
• Applications JIRA, Confluence, Miro

Required Skills and Experience

• Technologies & Tools: Hands on experience with a number of: Java, Webflux/Project Reactor, Spring Boot, JavaScript, VueJS, SQL, HTML/CSS, Git, Jest
• Software Development: Extensive experience with a number of software development techniques and approaches from: Design Patterns, Microservice Architecture, API Design, API Testing, Responsive Design, CSS Architecture
• Agile: Extensive experience working in an Agile software development environment with Scrum, Kanban, or similar
• Problem Solving: Experienced in pragmatic problem solving, focusing on effectiveness and value utilising data to drive decision making
• Delivery Management: Experience in delivering value to market, managing work and resources
• Project Management: Experience identifying and managing risks, issues, and dependencies within and across autonomous squads
• People Development: Experience setting objectives and identifying areas of growth and development for individuals

Benefits

Life at Quant

We aim to be one of the most desirable employers in fintech, somewhere you are valued and inspired to do the best work of your career, alongside a high-performance team of colleagues that feels the same. That’s why, in addition to a competitive salary and performance-related bonus, we provide:

• Pension scheme
• Health insurance
• Life assurance
• Paid parental leave
• Paid sick leave
• Physical and mental wellbeing perks including online fitness classes, online GP consultations and discounted gym membership

Our shared values

We have expertise in finance and technology in common but what unites us is our beliefs. We believe in:

• Innovation: We love a challenge and have little respect for the status quo. Experience has taught us that problems are a matter of perspective and that, with new ideas and a fresh way of looking at things, solutions often present themselves.
• Ambition: The scale of a task won’t deter us when we believe it will take as closer to our vision. Every problem is an opportunity. Every obstacle, the chance to take a calculated risk and question assumptions. In short, we’re not afraid to think big.
• Trust: Fundamental to a prosperous economy, trust also lies at the heart of our company. Indeed, we believe it is the bedrock of a healthy society committed to equality and fairness. We trust each other, we engineer trust into our solutions, and we work hard every day to earn the trust of our clients and partners.
• Adaptability: We remain open-minded, objective and flexible at all times. When the facts change, so does our approach. We embrace that agility and encourage all those we work with to do the same.
• Respect: We’re respectful of the ideas and perspectives of others, we celebrate people’s differences and recognise their achievements. We also hold the needs and health of our environment dear. And we have no tolerance for bullying, harassment, or discrimination of any kind.

Whilst applications may be reviewed as they are received, we anticipate to not accept any further applications after 5pm BST on 15th May 2023.