Set Technical Direction: Define and evolve the architecture across our acquisition and success platforms, ensuring scalability, resilience, and clarity of ownership across teams.
Drive Multi-Team Initiatives: Lead complex, cross-functional engineering efforts that span teams and systems — aligning stakeholders, reducing ambiguity, and delivering high-leverage outcomes.
Build & Ship: Remain deeply hands-on — designing, coding, and reviewing critical components across back-end systems, APIs, infrastructure, and front-end applications.
Strengthen Foundations: Improve platform reliability, developer experience, observability, testing strategy, and deployment practices to enable faster, safer shipping across the organisation.
Accelerate Product Innovation: Partner closely with Product and Design to translate ambiguous problem spaces into scalable technical solutions, balancing speed with long-term quality.
Multiply Impact: Mentor Staff and Senior Engineers, raise engineering standards, and act as a trusted technical advisor to leadership.
Plan for Scale: Anticipate bottlenecks before they emerge — proactively designing systems, processes, and data flows that support rapid company growth.

Requirements

Senior technical leadership experience: Experience operating at Staff+ or Senior Staff level in a high-growth startup or scale-up, with clear evidence of organisation-wide impact.
Architectural depth: Proven ability to design and evolve complex distributed systems spanning APIs, event-driven workflows, data systems, and front-end applications.
Multi-team influence: Experience leading cross-team initiatives and driving alignment across engineering, product, and business stakeholders.
Modern tech expertise: Deep experience with:
- Python and/or Node.js
- AWS serverless architecture (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB)
- Event-driven systems and asynchronous workflows
Strong front-end fluency: Confident architecting and building modern, performant React applications that integrate seamlessly with complex back-end systems.
Product & business alignment: Demonstrated ability to connect technical decisions to business outcomes and customer experience.
Navigating ambiguity: Comfort operating in evolving environments, defining direction where it doesn’t yet exist.
Desirable: Experience scaling systems from early product-market fit to multi-product platforms
Exposure to regulated industries (e.g., energy, fintech, govtech)
Familiarity with real-time pricing engines, workflow orchestration, or AI/agentic systems
Experience improving engineering org design, team topology, or platform strategy

Benefits

Competitive salar
Stock Options - everyone on the team has ownership in our mission.
25 days holiday + public holidays - Swap public holidays for ones that matter most to you. Plus, get an extra day off for your birthday 🎉.
Remote & flexible working - We’re fully remote with clear core hours, and no internal meetings on Friday afternoons.
Home working & wellbeing budgets:
- Up to £1,200 / €1,200 annually to upgrade your remote setup (co-working passes, equipment, etc.).
- Up to £150 / €150 monthly on anything that supports your wellbeing - from therapy to gym memberships to meditation apps.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonNode.jsAWS serverless architectureLambdaAPI GatewayDynamoDBevent-driven systemsasynchronous workflowsReactplatform strategy

Soft Skills

technical leadershipmentoringcross-team collaborationnavigating ambiguitystakeholder alignmentproblem-solvingcommunicationorganizational impactdesign directioninfluencing