MATTHEW D. WEBBProfileEngineering leader with almost two decades of experience building software, leading teams and scaling technology platforms across banking, retail and financial services. Leads payments, digital wallet and loyalty engineering at Landmark Group, combining hands-on technical depth with organisational leadership across large engineering teams and business-critical systems. ExperienceHead of Engineering, Payments - Retail & EcommerceLead engineering for payments, digital wallet, and loyalty platforms across 8 online and offline retail brands operating in 7 countries. Responsible for platform strategy, architecture and delivery across a ~40-engineer organisation supporting millions of customers and billions in annual transaction volume.
Head of Technology - RetailLed retail technology across ~600 stores in 7 countries, spanning point-of-sale, omni-channel commerce and the platform modernisation programmes underneath. Established the Engineering Excellence programme across a ~300-engineer organisation, defining standards, career frameworks and engineering governance.
Vice President, Software Engineering - CIBReturned to JPMorgan Chase to help build Capital Connect, the firm's digital private markets platform. Contributed to front-end architecture and platform capabilities using TypeScript and GraphQL within a strategic investment banking initiative.
Head of Software Development - RetailLed ~50 engineers modernising Tesco's in-store checkout platform across more than ~3,000 stores. Delivered a cloud-native architecture built on Remix, TypeScript, GraphQL and Kubernetes, improving deployment flexibility for one of the UK's largest retail technology estates.
Vice President, Senior Technical Lead - CIBLed engineering for a strategic desktop platform serving Sales, Research, Algorithmic Trading and Execution. Owned platform architecture and front-end strategy across 8 workstreams, directly managing ~16-engineers building a shared application ecosystem used globally.
Full-Stack Technical Lead - Media Streaming ServicesLed a cross-functional team delivering media streaming platforms built on Angular, Node.js and Go microservices. Responsible for architecture, engineering delivery and line management across a rapidly evolving product suite.
Systems Integrator - Sports Betting & GamingBuilt and integrated real-time transaction systems within William Hill's betting and gaming platforms. Worked across Java, Spring Boot and enterprise integration technologies where reliability, settlement accuracy and operational resilience were critical.
Senior Developer - Digital AgencyDelivered full-stack web applications across JavaScript, C# and emerging React ecosystems, with a strong focus on analytics, customer acquisition and data-driven product development.
Software Engineer - Digital AgencyBuilt and shipped client-facing web applications across JavaScript, PHP and .NET, developing the technical foundations that would shape the rest of my career.
Professional ChessFinance Systems Developer - RetailBuilt finance and back-office systems using Oracle, Java and PL/SQL within one of the UK's largest retailers. Learned early that financial systems are remarkably unforgiving of mistakes, a lesson that proved useful throughout the rest of my career.
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Curriculum Vitae
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Areas of interest
A little context for anyone reading the CV: the problems I spend my time on, and what I am thinking about at the moment.
What I work on
Platform Engineering
The unglamorous plumbing the rest of the business quietly depends on, and the developer experience that makes it usable.
Payments & Financial Services
Money movement, wallets and loyalty across borders and brands, where being wrong is both expensive and immediately obvious.
AI Adoption
Working out where it genuinely earns its keep, and where it is a confident answer to a question nobody asked.
Engineering Leadership
Teams, standards and engineering culture, built around the awkward truth that technology is often the easy bit.
Currently exploring
- Scaling engineering organisations beyond the point where everyone still knows everyone.
- Where AI tooling actually belongs in the workflow, treated as infrastructure rather than novelty.
- Payments and loyalty platforms that behave consistently across markets, brands and currencies.
- The occasional advisory role, podcast, panel or conference talk when the subject is interesting enough (or when there's free coffee).
