Tech Lead - Core Platform (AI Native)

The Role

As a Tech Lead at Murmuration, you'll take ownership of the core platform build that will service the credit unions and their members. Working in a small team, you will mentor and support your fellow engineers to maximise the quality of the platform whilst working as efficiently as possible. We work in an AI-first way: we expect you to be fluent with AI coding tools and have enough confidence in your own abilities to support and develop the team in working this way. Reporting to the Chief Technology Officer, you'll be one of the first engineers here, with a real say in the product and how it's built.

About Murmuration

Murmuration is a new technology company building the core platform that credit unions run on. We provide the software, payments, and data infrastructure that lets a credit union offer its members modern digital banking without having to build or run the technology itself.

Credit unions are member-owned and rooted in their communities, but many still operate on systems that are decades old, which limits what they can offer their members. We're building the alternative.

We're a new company, putting our platform and our first engineering team in place now, with the backing of an established group. For people who join early, that means a real say in the product, the architecture, and how the company works.

What you'll be doing

• Leading and mentoring the core platform engineering team
• Enforcing quality standards in the delivered builds
• Working closely with the other disciplines to ensure the core platform meets the needs of the credit unions and their members
• Design, build, and ship features across the whole platform
• Work closely with the platform engineers to design and build high performing CI/CD pipelines that provide fast feedback
• Use AI coding tools to work quickly, without dropping standards for code quality, testing, and security whilst supporting the team in their own use of AI coding tools.
• Build AI features into the product (assistants, automation, document processing) where they add genuine value for members and/or the business
• Design and consume REST/GraphQL APIs that connect our platform to CBS, payments, and third-party services
• Take features from design through implementation, testing, deployment, and support
• Have a strong influence on architecture and technical decisions as part of a small, senior team
• Write automated tests, review other people's code, and help set the engineering standards here
• Work closely with product, design, and the platform and payments engineers

What you'll bring to Murmuration

• Strong experience in mentoring and leading small engineering teams
• Strong experience with database technologies (e.g. Postgres, MySql, SqlServer)
• Strong experience designing and building features across the whole stack
• Strong experience with Node, Go and similar technology stacks
• Experience integrating third-party services
• Fluency with AI coding tools as part of your day-to-day work, and a sensible view on where they help and where they don't
• A strong grounding in the fundamentals: testing, version control, CI/CD, and secure coding
• Comfortable working at an early stage, with a lot of ownership
• An interest in fintech, payments, or financial inclusion

Standout candidates will also...

• Experience in designing and building platforms from scratch
• Experience in fintech, banking, payments, or another regulated or high-trust domain
• A track record of shipping AI/LLM features into production
• Experience with modern cloud development (AWS/Azure/GCP), containers, and infrastructure-as-code
• Experience setting engineering standards or mentoring a small team

Benefits

• Salary of £80,000 – £95,000 depending on experience
• 30 days holiday per year plus Bank Holidays
• Hybrid working from our Manchester office
• Company pension scheme
• An early, hands-on role building a new platform and team
• Structured career path with support for ongoing learning and development