Engineering Lead – Core Group

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Establish practical technical strategies and oversee system architecture involving clients, APIs, services, data, infrastructure, and integrations.

• Develop pull requests, write production-ready code, and launch new features.

• Engage in technical design contributions, investigations, and reviews.

• Collaborate with Product and Design teams to transform vague opportunities into well-defined milestones, manageable deliverables, and regular releases.

• Supervise a team of three to six engineers by setting expectations, conducting one-on-ones, providing feedback, managing performance, and offering development support.

• Mentor engineers through design discussions, reviews, pair programming, debugging, and handling production incidents.

• Advocate for robust testing, observability, safe releases, and effective production feedback mechanisms.

• Make informed technical trade-offs, maintain visibility on risks, and enhance systems following production issues.

• Utilize AI in a responsible manner.

• Participate in recruitment, onboarding, and the establishment of shared engineering practices.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive backend engineering experience, particularly in senior or lead roles.

• Profound backend knowledge with a comprehensive, systems-thinking approach across clients, APIs, services, data, infrastructure, and operations.

• Strong proficiency in Python or experience with another modern backend language, along with a willingness to learn Python.

• Proven experience in setting technical direction and in the design, delivery, and operation of reliable systems.

• Experience in formally managing engineers, or compelling evidence of readiness to handle one-on-ones, feedback, performance evaluations, and development for a team of three to six.

• Ability to constructively challenge assumptions and distill ambiguous, complex tasks into manageable and secure deliverables.

• Solid foundation in database management and production engineering principles, including AWS, CI/CD, and observability.

• Clear, enthusiastic communication skills.

• Currently residing in the UK.

• Full right to work in the UK.

• No current or future requirement for sponsorship to work in the UK.

🏝️ Benefits

• Private health insurance with no excess, including optical coverage and optional dental care.

• Income protection coverage.

• Tenure-based holiday policy: an additional two days of leave after three years, increasing to 30 days annually after five years.

• Flexible working arrangements.

• Comprehensive support for home office setup.

• Nursery salary sacrifice scheme.

• Salary sacrifice options for technology and holidays.

• Discounts on retail and subscription services.

• Quarterly team social events.