Engineering Lead - Core Group

📋 Description

• Set pragmatic technical direction and lead system design across clients, APIs, services, data
• Create PRs, write production code and release features, alongside contributing technical designs
• Work with Product and Design to turn ambiguous opportunities into clear milestones, small
• Manage three to six engineers through clear expectations, one-to-ones, feedback, performance
• Develop engineers through design discussions, reviews, pairing, debugging and production incidents
• Champion effective testing, observability, safe releases and strong production feedback loops.

🎯 Requirements

• Significant backend engineering experience, including time operating at senior or lead level.
• Deep backend expertise with a full-stack, systems-thinking mindset across clients, APIs, services
• Strong Python skills, or experience with another modern backend language and a willingness to learn
• Experience setting technical direction and designing, delivering and operating reliable systems.
• Experience in formally managing engineers, or strong evidence of readiness to own one-to-ones
• Ability to challenge assumptions constructively and break ambiguous, complex work into simple, safe

🎁 Benefits

• Private health insurance with zero excess, including optical cover and optional dental.
• Income protection to protect your earnings.
• Tenure holiday policy: extra two days leave after three years, increasing to 30 days annually after
• Flexible working and fully supported home office setup.
• Nursery salary sacrifice scheme.
• Salary sacrifice schemes for tech and holidays.