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NewDay

NewDay

www.newday.co.uk

2 Jobs

1,182 Employees

About the Company

At NewDay, our business is focused on a single, clear and defining purpose: to help people move forward with credit.

We provide nearly 4 million customers with responsible access to credit, underpinned by best-in-class customer service and exceptional user experience. Our in-house, highly scalable digital platform alongside our proprietary credit decisioning capability unlocks our competitive advantage.

Our broad credit product offering enables instalment finance, BNPL, 0% finance and carded and digital revolving credit. We operate multiple direct-to-consumer products and a range of credit solutions with some of the UK’s most loved brands.

Our underwriting capability and experience allow us to responsibly say yes to more UK customers making us a merchant partner of choice. We partner to harness the power of data to drive commerce across the UK, creating value at scale.

Listed Jobs

Company background Company brand
Company Name
NewDay
Job Title
Principal Engineer
Job Description
Working at our iconic office in London, and virtually via Microsoft Teams

Your new role at NewDay

We’re on our journey to build a brand new, ambitious, green-field lending platform at NewDay, and we’re looking for some wonderful people to help us do it.

As a Principal Engineer in Testing and Automation, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and guiding our engineering teams as part of Project Stratus, our cutting-edge cloud-native lending platform. Collaborating closely with product owners, business analysts, and engineering peers, you will lead the design and implementation of robust, scalable, and innovative testing and automation solutions. We are building our platform using modern .NET and Azure PaaS-native technologies, and we are committed to fostering a culture that is honest, inclusive, and welcoming. Our goal is to empower autonomous teams to deliver exceptional results while driving the adoption of best practices in quality, reliability, and automation. This is an exciting opportunity to influence not just the technical strategy but also the team culture and the quality-first mindset as we build a platform that will set new standards in the industry. This programme of work has the opportunity to transform NewDay and it’s product offerings and set the technical tone for the organisation going forward.


What You’ll Deliver:


Performance and resiliency enhancements to our products.
Design and build new dashboards to improve our observability.
Optimise our Github Action test workflows.
Define a roadmap of testing improvements for 2025 and beyond.

What You’ll Bring:


Strong C# skills for building maintainable and scalable test automation frameworks.
Experience with Domain-Driven Design (DDD), Event-Driven architectures, and Event Sourcing patterns.
Experience with SpecFlow for BDD and API testing using tools like Postman.
Proficiency in designing test infrastructure with Azure services (DevOps, Functions, AKS).
Strong experience with GitHub Actions for optimised CI/CD pipelines.
Expertise in implementing and testing resilient systems that handle failures gracefully.
Expertise in load/performance testing tools like JMeter or k6.
Experience with IaC tools for consistent environment parity.
Strong collaboration with cross-functional teams to improve testability and pipelines.
Experience in defining and tracking KPIs like test coverage and defect leakage rates.

We would love you to know or learn


Knowledge of Azure Monitor and Application Insights.
Familiarity with observability/dashboard tools like Grafana or Prometheus.



About NewDay


We help people move forward with credit and help our colleagues to move their careers forward too.
We use our highly flexible, scalable, and multi-product digital credit engine to power over 120 million transactions every year. Our brands include Aqua, marbles, fluid and Bip. We partner with leading brands such as John Lewis, AO, Argos and DEKO.
Over 5 million UK customers are supported by our award-winning customer service.
At NewDay, we value all types of diversity. We’re an equal opportunity employer and believe that our differences create a vibrant, authentic working culture. We want all our colleagues to feel able to bring their whole selves to work. We don’t discriminate on the basis of age, physical or mental disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and carer status, race (including colour, nationality, and ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. We make sure that every job is crafted to be inclusive and that people with disabilities or caring responsibilities can take part in the application and interview process. Tell us if you need accommodations: we’ll put reasonable adjustments in place to support you.

Our dynamic NewDay culture

We’re focused on what will drive impact in helping people move forward with credit. Our distinctive culture is geared to spark innovation and team working – with lots of open doors for development. Our customers can rely on us because we aim high, support each other, do the right thing and build for the future.
We invest in our colleagues. On top of a strong market competitive salary, you get a bonus opportunity that matches the impact (delivery + values) you drive in your role. We also help you retire better with market leading pensions.
At NewDay, #yourwellbeing matters: You get 26 days holiday and can buy up to 5 more after probation. Then you’ll get extra days as you build your career with us.
NewWork, our flexible, hybrid working approach, helps you to manage your work/life balance - and even bolt on work time in other countries before or after your holiday. And when you’re in the office, you get free healthy breakfast, fresh juices, lunch, barista coffee etc.
Our tax efficient green car and cycle to work schemes save you money (and help the planet).
Ask your Talent Acquisition Partner to tell you more about any of our perks.
We work with Textio to make our job design and hiring inclusive.
#LI-Hybrid
London, United Kingdom
On site
22-01-2025
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Company Name
NewDay
Job Title
Head of Engineering - Platform QA
Job Description
Working at our iconic office in London, and virtually via Microsoft Teams

Your new role at NewDay
Our mission is to build a world class engineering team enabled by great technology, people and process. The Head of Engineering, Platform QA is a senior leadership role in the organisation accountable for defining and leading on the platform standards in QA.We believe we are building something truly exciting underpinned by cloud native engineering, great talent and modern software development practices!
This role will have leadership responsibilities for approximately 20 engineers at various levels in London and a number of nearshore locations. We have you-build-it-you-run-it teams responsible for all elements of the product in partnership with the product organisation.

What You’ll Deliver:

Lead QA at scale – Shape and drive quality strategy across a 250+ strong engineering organisation building distributed cloud services.
Build specialised teams for advanced testing methods like chaos engineering and simulators.
Define and implement tooling, telemetry, and in-house platform solutions to measure and enhance software quality.
Hire, develop, and mentor top engineering talent, fostering a culture of continuous learning.
You will Inspire engineering leadership and cultivate a strong leadership mindset across teams and management.
Strategic workforce planning – Optimise team structure, locations, and staffing for long-term success.

What You’ll Bring:

Engineering-first mindset – We prioritise a strong engineering background over pure QA experience.
Expertise in software development from the perspective of testing, bringing significant thought leadership to the organisation.
You will Drive innovation in software testing with deep technical expertise.
You will Understand how great architecture enables top-tier testing practices.
You will have a strong command of cutting-edge software testing frameworks.
Experience leading high-performing engineering teams and developing strong management structures.
Deep experience in collaborative, high-velocity development environments.
CI/CD expertise – Skilled in high-frequency deployments, automation, and performance testing under load – Your an agile Dev Ops champions!
You will have strong cloud development experience, ideally with Azure.
You will have a Background in building and testing high-performance platforms (trading, banking, or similar).

We would love you to know or learn

Experience in FinTech businesses
Experience in microservice architectures, event driven systems and multi-tenancy data patterns.
Experience in consumer lending or Credit Card issuing

Where next? Let’s talk about this role – Apply now or contact talent@newday.co.uk with any queries.


About NewDay

We help people move forward with credit and help our colleagues to move their careers forward too.
We use our highly flexible, scalable, and multi-product digital credit engine to power over 120 million transactions every year. Our brands include Aqua, marbles, fluid and Bip. We partner with leading brands such as John Lewis, AO, Argos and DEKO.
Over 5 million UK customers are supported by our award-winning customer service.
At NewDay, we value all types of diversity. We’re an equal opportunity employer and believe that our differences create a vibrant, authentic working culture. We want all our colleagues to feel able to bring their whole selves to work. We don’t discriminate on the basis of age, physical or mental disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and carer status, race (including colour, nationality, and ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. We make sure that every job is crafted to be inclusive and that people with disabilities or caring responsibilities can take part in the application and interview process. Tell us if you need accommodations: we’ll put reasonable adjustments in place to support you.

Our dynamic NewDay culture

We’re focused on what will drive impact in helping people move forward with credit. Our distinctive culture is geared to spark innovation and team working – with lots of open doors for development. Our customers can rely on us because we aim high, support each other, do the right thing and build for the future.
We invest in our colleagues. On top of a strong market competitive salary, you get a bonus opportunity that matches the impact (delivery + values) you drive in your role. We also help you retire better with market leading pensions.
At NewDay, #yourwellbeing matters: You get 26 days holiday and can buy up to 5 more after probation. Then you’ll get extra days as you build your career with us.
NewWork, our flexible, hybrid working approach, helps you to manage your work/life balance - and even bolt on work time in other countries before or after your holiday. And when you’re in the office, you get free healthy breakfast, fresh juices, lunch, barista coffee etc.
Our tax efficient green car and cycle to work schemes save you money (and help the planet).
Ask your Talent Acquisition Partner to tell you more about any of our perks.
We work with Textio to make our job design and hiring inclusive.
London, United Kingdom
On site
06-02-2025