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Our purpose is to help established SMEs, one of the last major underserved opportunities in Fintech.\nEstablished SMEs are the backbone of local communities - representing over a third of our economy - yet have been largely neglected both by traditional high street banks and modern fintech providers.\nDepartment Description\nTechnology sits at the centre of Allica. We design and build the platforms that power the bank, working closely with every part of the business to deliver real impact for customers. Our teams move quickly, focus on outcomes, and take ownership from concept through to delivery. We solve complex problems, modernise processes, and enable the business to scale with confidence.\nWhat makes us different is the level of influence and autonomy engineers have. We work without the weight of legacy systems, which means we can focus on building for the future. Everyone contributes ideas and helps shape how we operate, and roles evolve as the organisation grows. This is a place for people who want to have a tangible impact and do their best work in a modern, collaborative environment.\nRole Description\nThe Staff Full Stack Engineer is responsible for setting technical direction across multiple squads, typically overseeing 2-3 squads and line-managing 3-5 Full Stack Engineers. 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AWS or Google Cloud also valuable), including deployment, monitoring, and scaling of microservices and web applications.\n\nDeep understanding of secure coding practices (e.g. OWASP), privacy, auditability, and regulatory expectations in financial services or similarly regulated environments.\n\nStrong experience with observability, SLOs, incident management, and operational excellence (logging, tracing, metrics, dashboards, on-call practices).\n\nStrong understanding of CI/CD and DevOps practices, ideally using GiHub actions or Azure DevOps Pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and automated testing at multiple levels.\n\nExperience designing and governing APIs at scale (REST, OpenAPI, API gateways, versioning, backwards compatibility, service contracts).\n\nDemonstrated ability to lead technical programmes or initiatives that span multiple teams and systems, delivering measurable improvements to reliability, performance, or developer productivity.\n\nExperience introducing and scaling the use of new tools and standards across organisations, including GenAI technologies (e.g. GitHub Copilot) with appropriate guardrails.\n\nProven people leadership experience: line-managing senior engineers, coaching technical leaders, and building high-performing, inclusive teams.\n\nExcellent communication and influencing skills, with the ability to work effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders, communicate trade-offs clearly, and build consensus.\n\nWorking at Allica Bank\nAt Allica Bank we want to ensure our employees have the right tools and environment in which to succeed in their role and in support of our customers.\nOur employees are at the heart of everything we do, so our benefits are designed with you in mind:\nFull onboarding support and continued development opportunities\n\nOptions for flexible working\n\nRegular social activities\n\nPension contributions\n\nDiscretionary bonus scheme\n\nPrivate health cover\n\nLife assurance\n\nFamily friendly policies including enhanced Maternity & Paternity leave\n\nDon’t tick every box?\nDon’t worry if you don’t have all the skills or requirements listed on the job description. 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