Software Engineer- Python
Permanent - Full TimeJob Overview
At OakNorth, we’re on a mission to empower the UK’s most ambitious businesses. Since 2015, we’ve lent over $18 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 🚀
At OakNorth, we’re on a mission to empower the UK’s most ambitious businesses. Since 2015, we’ve lent over $18 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 🚀
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 decisionYou're comfortably organised amongst chaos
- You’re a broad thinker and have the capability to see the potential impact of decisions across the wider business
- Utilise GenerativeAI: Leverage GenAI tools to increase productivity and enhance decision making processes within the role
Desired Technology 🧱
- We're pragmatic about our technology choices. These are some of the things we use at the moment:
- 🗃 Python
- 🗄️ PostgreSQL, BigQuery, MySQL
- 🎨 TypeScript, React, styled-components
- 🔧 Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress, pytest
- ☁️ AWS, GCP
- 🚀 ECS Fargate, Docker, Terraform, GitHub Actions
Nice-to-Have Skills
- Experience with AI/LLM integrations and Generative AI applications
- Knowledge of intelligent document processing and NLP techniques
- Familiarity with vector databases (e.g., Pinecone, Weaviate) and search platforms (e.g., OpenSearch, Elasticsearch)
- Exposure to agentic workflows or orchestration frameworks for multi-step AI reasoning, and familiarity with MCP (Model Context Protocol)