Picnic

Engineering Lead

Picnic

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: London • United Kingdom

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSCloud

About the role

  • Own execution of the engineering roadmap, taking optimisation and decisioning capabilities from prototype through to dependable production systems
  • Provide technical leadership across platform infrastructure, data pipelines, applied modelling, real-time services and APIs
  • Act as an architectural steward of the platform, ensuring scalability, reliability, performance and cost efficiency as complexity increases
  • Drive best practices around system design, DevOps, observability, automation, CI/CD and production operations
  • Ensure high standards around service guarantees, data freshness, versioning and operational correctness, especially as the platform becomes customer facing
  • Stay close to the systems and codebase, making key technical decisions and unblocking execution across the stack
  • Help evolve the platform to support external customers and partners with clear expectations around uptime, latency and trust

Requirements

  • Have strong hands on experience delivering systems in a startup or scaleup environment
  • Be deeply experienced in cloud architecture, particularly within AWS
  • Have worked across product engineering, platform infrastructure and data systems
  • Have built and operated production services with high requirements around reliability, latency, correctness and cost control
  • Be confident designing systems that balance short-term delivery with long term maintainability
  • Be comfortable moving from experimentation into robust production deployments
  • Have strong judgement around trade offs, technical debt and operational risk
  • Be familiar with machine learning concepts and the infrastructure required to deploy and run models in production
  • Communicate clearly with technical and non technical stakeholders
  • Some team leadership experience is welcome, but the core requirement is technical strength, execution ownership and engineering excellence
Benefits
  • Flexible, hybrid working setup (with regular time together in our London Bridge office)
  • 33 days holiday (inclusive of Bank Holidays), plus additional Christmas shutdown
  • Private Medical Insurance through Vitality
  • Picnic pension contribution
  • Inclusive parental leave policy
  • A great co-working space, regular socials and offsites, Picnic Thursdays, Summer Fridays, and 'Work from Roam' opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
cloud architectureAWSsystem designDevOpsCI/CDdata pipelinesapplied modellingreal-time servicesAPIsmachine learning
Soft Skills
technical leadershipcommunicationjudgementexecution ownershipteam leadershipdecision makingoptimisationscalabilityreliabilitycost control