Lead Software Engineer – Finance and Operations Automations

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🕒 May 27

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Abound

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11 - 50 employees

At Abound, our mission is to help local businesses connect, grow, and delight customers. We believe the best stores will always have exciting new products with unique stories. From maker stories to purposeful ingredients, we only select brands and products that spark a deeper connection with our customers. With Abound, there’s so much more in store for you. Discover an exciting career opportunity at a rapidly growing, rocketship startup that will give you the environment and the freedom to excel.

📋 Description

• Partner with Finance and Operations leaders to identify the workflows where automation will have the highest impact, and shape a roadmap you can defend • Run discovery directly with stakeholders — sit with the team doing the work, map the process, challenge assumptions, and turn what you learn into clear requirements • Design and build Python services that automate finance and operations workflows end-to-end, from data ingestion through to the reports, actions, and exceptions that land with business users • Translate business processes into clear technical plans, with the right level of detail for the team to deliver against • Lead a small team of engineers, supporting them through code review, pairing, and technical guidance; line management is available as the team grows and as your interests develop • Own the full software development lifecycle — design, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, and iteration • Provide second-line support during business hours, troubleshooting production issues that affect Finance and Operations users, and feeding what you learn back into the roadmap • Help structure the team's delivery process, including sprint planning, sizing, and retrospectives • Maintain strong engineering practices — testing standards, observability, and pragmatic technical decisions that balance speed today with maintainability tomorrow

🎯 Requirements

• Strong experience building production systems in Python, including async code, type hints, and a serious approach to testing • A product mindset — you measure success by the problem solved, not the ticket closed, and you're comfortable pushing back on requirements that don't make sense • Experience working directly with business stakeholders (Finance, Operations, Compliance, or similar) to understand how their function actually works, gather requirements, and translate them into reliable systems • Genuine interest in how finance and operations functions run — reconciliations, ledgers, reporting, payment flows, ops workflows — or a strong track record of picking up unfamiliar business domains quickly • Strong engineering judgement and the ability to make pragmatic technical trade-offs, especially when building for internal users where reliability and auditability matter more than novelty • Experience maintaining business-critical systems and supporting them in production • Strong sense of ownership across the full lifecycle: discovery, design, build, deployment, and support • Experience working with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) • Comfortable in fast-paced environments where accuracy, reliability, and clear communication are essential

🏖️ Benefits

• Everyone owns a piece of the company — equity • Hybrid with 3 days a week in the office • 25 days' holiday a year, plus 8 bank holidays • 2 paid volunteering days per year • One month paid sabbatical after 4 years • Employee loan • Free gym membership • Team wellness budget to be active together — set up a yoga class, a tennis lesson or go bouldering