Staff Software Engineer – Backend, Frontend

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

📋 Description

• Set and uphold the technical direction and architectural choices for analytics, insights, predictive services, and product integrations.

• Create, assess, prototype, and explore complex technical challenges.

• Establish and uphold engineering quality standards, testing protocols, documentation, and code review practices.

• Collaborate with Product Managers, engineers, and stakeholders to outline priorities, constraints, and technical risks.

• Provide technical leadership across pertinent teams.

• Contribute to cross-functional engineering standards and share established technical patterns.

• Engage in technical discussions and governance processes.

• Facilitate the resolution of critical technical challenges.

• Direct performance optimization, scalability improvements, and reliability enhancements for both backend and frontend services.

• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers.

• Evaluate emerging technologies and frameworks related to analytics and AI-assisted engineering.

• Lead incident response and post-mortem processes.

• Oversee the Knowledge Management domain, including technology selection, integration patterns, data access architecture, API design, and AI-assisted document ingestion and retrieval systems.

• Engage in hands-on engineering for 50–60% of the role, coding and reviewing in Python or Java.

• Define and enforce engineering quality standards for the area.

• Align technical standards across engineering groups.

• Act as the primary technical liaison to Product Management.

• Convert roadmap priorities into technical delivery estimates and highlight technical risks.

• Collaborate with regulatory specialists as necessary.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven expertise in software engineering with a successful track record in building and operating production systems at scale.

• Mastery in system design, capable of evaluating technical trade-offs and taking responsibility for architectural decisions in production settings.

• Hands-on experience in coding, code reviewing, prototyping, and technical investigations.

• Expert-level backend engineering skills in Python or Java.

• Architectural understanding of data access patterns, API design, document ingestion pipelines, and text embedding model integration.

• Exceptional capability in system architecture.

• Advanced technical leadership skills without needing formal line authority.

• Proficiency in both backend and frontend technologies, with documented expertise in at least one area.

• Working knowledge of React or Angular.

• Extensive experience in performance optimization, scalability analysis, and system reliability engineering within distributed systems.

• Proven success in mentoring and developing engineering talent across various career stages.

• Demonstrated ability to manage complex technical projects to completion.

• Experience with incident response, post-mortem analysis, and continuous improvement methodologies.

• Involvement in or leadership of technical governance, standards-setting, and architectural review processes across multiple teams.

• Expert use of AI coding tools as a primary workflow, with the ability to critically assess AI-generated code.

• Commitment to test coverage, merge-gate rules, agent-consumable interfaces, and documentation-as-code standards.

• Ability to clearly communicate technical trade-offs to regulatory specialists and product teams.

• Capacity to understand domain requirements and build credibility with stakeholders.

• Experience with software that supports analytics, machine learning, prediction services, or integrations.

• Availability for full-time work.

🏝️ Benefits

• Generous pension scheme.

• Bonus scheme.

• Private medical insurance.

• Life insurance.

• Up to 31.5 days of annual leave.

• Flexible working arrangements.

• A culture of continuous learning.

• A broad array of training options.