Hybrid Staff Engineer – Personal Savings

at OakNorth

• Job title: Staff Engineer – Personal Savings
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Bengaluru, India

About the role

• Staff Engineer in OakNorth Bank's engineering team ensuring technical decisions and delivering impactful solutions. Join us to redefine business banking with next generation financial tools and products.

Responsibilities

• As a Staff Engineer, you’ll work with product and engineering across multiple squads to ensure the right technical and business trade-offs are made, dependencies are managed proactively, and execution remains predictable.
• Drive cross-squad technical outcomes: shape solutions for ambiguous, complex problems and guide squads toward sensible architectural decisions.
• Own technical decision-making mechanisms: write and steward RFCs/ADRs, run design reviews, document trade-offs, and ensure decisions are understood and adopted.
• Manage dependencies and execution risks: map dependencies, surface risks early, propose mitigation options, and keep stakeholders aligned as plans evolve.
• Communicate proactively and clearly: provide regular written updates on progress, risks, and changes in outlook; maintain a shared source of truth for key initiatives.
• Measure success by business impact: optimise for customer outcomes, reliability, and sustainable delivery—not lines of code.
• Raise quality and engineering standards: set expectations for code health, testing strategy, performance, resiliency, and production readiness across squads.
• Embrace DevOps culture (“you build it, you run it”): improve operability, observability, incident response, and root-cause elimination; reduce operational toil and repeat issues.
• Build secure and resilient systems by design: partner early with Cyber/Risk to embed security and compliance considerations into architecture and delivery.
• Multiply others: coach and mentor engineers, help leads level up planning and technical direction, and grow decision-making depth across the org.
• Continuously improve platforms and developer experience: reduce duplication, strengthen shared abstractions, and improve tooling to enable faster, safer delivery across teams.

Requirements

• Strong technical background with 12+ years designing and engineering large-scale systems.
• Proven ability to lead architectural decisions on complex systems with multiple stakeholders and constraints.
• Strong judgement: prefer simple, maintainable solutions over unnecessary complexity.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and organised amidst chaos—can bring clarity and structure when things are messy.
• Excellent collaboration and stakeholder management; able to earn trust across levels and functions.
• Broad systems thinker with the ability to anticipate downstream impacts across the wider business and technology ecosystem.
• Willing to challenge constructively, debate options, and then commit to the chosen path (“disagree and commit”).

Benefits

• Equity. We want people to have a stake in the business so that all our interests are aligned.
• Health Insurance for employee and dependents.
• Wellbeing and social events
• Support causes that matter to you – Volunteering time off