Engineering Lead

Flock

Engineering Lead for Flock's Acquisition team, owning delivery, developer experience, and technical coaching. Collaborate with PM to shape and ship impactful products.

Posted 5/13/2026full-timeLondon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDynamoDBTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Engineering Lead for the Acquisition team.
Work closely with the PM to lead the team toward its goals, owning delivery, operational reliability and developer experience.
Ship production code and provide technical coaching and leadership to the engineers around you, not line management.
Lead a team building products that directly drive Flock's growth.
Own delivery and technical quality for the Acquisition team, working hand in hand with the PM to ship features that directly impact how fleets find and choose Flock.
Write high-quality, well-tested TypeScript and own end-to-end delivery to production.
Partner with product to drive impact.
Work closely with the PM, the Engineering Leadership Team and stakeholders to translate business goals into clear technical scope, success metrics and delivery plans.
Grow engineers around you.
Lead by example through code, design discussions and pairing.
Coach and mentor engineers across the team to raise standards and share ownership of technical direction.
Drive improvements to developer experience, CI/CD, observability and release practices that make the whole team faster and more confident.
Make pragmatic trade-offs that balance reliability, performance and cost across AWS services.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Proven ability to co-lead a team alongside a PM, taking joint ownership of delivery, quality and outcomes, not just your own output.
Strong hands-on engineering ability; comfortable shipping high-quality, well-tested TypeScript in production and holding the team to the same standard.
Significant experience with AWS and modern serverless (Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, EventBridge, DynamoDB, S3, CloudWatch) or other cloud platforms.
A pragmatic approach to technical decisions, balancing reliability, observability, performance and cost, and bringing engineers along on the reasoning.
Track record of raising engineering standards as a force-multiplier, through code reviews, pairing, design discussions and shaping long-term technical direction.
Strong communication skills; able to represent the team upwards and translate business goals into clear technical scope and delivery plans.
Experience improving developer experience, CI/CD, release practices and delivery cadence across a team.

Benefits

Comp & perks

25 days of holiday (+ Bank Holidays) 🏖
Workplace Pension 💰
Private Medical Insurance 🏩 (including Optical 👓 & Mental Health 💆‍♀️ support options)
Various Salary Sacrifice Schemes - Workplace Nursery, Holiday Purchase, Tech, Gym, Cycle to Work, Electric Vehicle, Private Medical Insurance for families 💵
Enhanced Parental Leave and Pay 🐣
£1000 toward relevant professional qualifications 🎓
£500 per annum towards learning and development 🌱
3 days paid leave for L&D purposes 🌻

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Hard Skills & Tools

TypeScriptAWSLambdaAPI GatewaySQSEventBridgeDynamoDBS3CloudWatchCI/CD

Soft Skills

leadershipcoachingmentoringcommunicationcollaborationpragmatic decision-makingproblem-solvingteam buildingtechnical directionraising standards