At OSB Group, we’re passionate about helping our customers, colleagues and communities prosper. Our specialist lending and savings brands are powered by modern, resilient technology — and our engineers play a vital role in shaping secure, customer-focused digital experiences in a regulated environment.
We’re looking for a Lead Engineer - Backend to provide hands-on technical leadership across multiple Savings squads. You’ll ensure consistency in architecture, code quality and security across our full-stack platforms, including backend services and Salesforce components.
The role reports into the Principal Engineer and will partner closely with Product Owners, Cloud Architects and Delivery Leads to ensure solutions are robust, scalable and ready for regulatory and customer-facing releases.
The role can be based from our Wolverhampton, Chatham or London office and will require occasional travel between all OSB Group locations.
The Lead Engineer - Backend will provide hands-on engineering leadership across squads, ensuring the delivery of secure, scalable and high-quality technology solutions. Acting as the technical authority across full-stack and Salesforce platforms, the role will drive engineering excellence, solution integrity and consistent delivery standards across both change and run activities.
Working closely with Product Owners, Architects, Delivery Leads and engineering teams across the UK and India, the Lead Engineer will serve as the key technical bridge between locations, enabling effective collaboration within a distributed Agile environment.
The role will also play a critical part in mentoring and developing engineering talent, helping to establish long-term technical capability and supporting the successful delivery of customer and regulatory commitments.
We offer a base salary depending on experience ranging from £65,000 - £75,000 per annum and a competitive benefits package including:
Please use this link to see the fantastic benefits available at OSB: OSB Careers
At OSB Group, we understand how much our people bring to our organisation, which is why we try our best to give back too! Our Purpose is to help our customers, colleagues and communities prosper and we are on a transformation journey to become ‘the bank of the future’.
Our commitment to professional development, flexible working, and employee well-being fosters a dynamic and supportive workplace.
We are looking for talented individuals who have the experience and knowledge set out below:
If this sounds like you, please apply now! For internal applications please visit the internal careers page to apply.
Still on the fence? Hear from our team or explore our process: OSB Careers
Shortlisted candidates will go through a personalised recruitment process, that is relevant and conversational. If you need any adjustments or support, we’re here to make sure you can show your best self.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and are committed to creating an inclusive and accessible workplace where everyone can thrive.
We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and encourage candidates with disabilities and long-term health conditions to apply.
If you meet the minimum criteria for the role and would like to be considered under our Disability Confident Scheme, please indicate this on your application.
Our team value spending time together in the office, typically 3 days a week to support collaboration and connection with colleagues, but we’re happy to have a conversation about what flexibility might look like for you.
Not sure if you meet the spec? Let us decide. Research tells us that those from marginalised groups feel like they need to meet 100% of the criteria to apply. Here at OSB, we are committed to inclusivity and understand the value different experiences and perspectives can bring, so please don’t feel like you need to check every box to apply for a role internally.
We champion diversity at all levels, with Board-level Diversity Champions tracking our progress. We are proud to be signed up to the Women in Finance Charter to actively support the growth and development of senior women in our sector and are dedicated to treating all our employees and job applicants equally, opposed to discrimination on any grounds.
With a central mission to provide fair financial solutions to all, OSB Group is a specialist lending and retail savings group serving the UK, Jersey and Guernsey, and is authorised by the PRA, part of the Bank of England, and regulated by the FCA.
With a heritage dating back over 150 years, OSB floated on the London Stock Exchange in June 2014 and joined the FTSE 250 one year later.
2019 marked an exciting period of growth with the combination of OSB and Charter Court Financial Services, taking The Groups individual brands to 13, including Kent Reliance, Precise, InterBay, Heritable Development Finance, and Charter Savings Bank.
OSB Group focuses its specialist lending activities on selected sub-sectors of the lending market in which it has an established presence and expertise. These include private rented sector buy to let, commercial and semi-commercial mortgages, residential development finance, bespoke and specialist residential lending, secured funding lines and asset finance.
Predominantly funded by retail savings originated through online and direct channels, The Group originates almost all of its organic lending through specialist intermediaries. It’s differentiated through its use of highly skilled, bespoke underwriting and efficient operating model.
The majority of the Group’s administrative support functions are performed by its wholly owned operations in Bangalore, India.
