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Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesAWSDistributed SystemsDynamoDBPython
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Lead Through Execution: Drive major technical initiatives from design through production, improving scalability, reliability, and correctness across critical systems.
- Build Distributed Systems: Design and evolve backend services, APIs, event-driven workflows, and data models that support complex business processes at scale.
- Own Critical Platform Infrastructure: Improve the operational foundations of the platform through better observability, testing, deployment safety, and incident reduction.
- Solve Complex Workflow Problems: Design systems that handle long-running workflows, asynchronous processing, consistency guarantees, and failure recovery in high-stakes environments.
- Work Across Teams: Lead initiatives spanning engineering, product, data, commercial, and machine learning teams - aligning stakeholders and unblocking delivery.
- Productionise Machine Learning: Collaborate with ML and data teams to safely integrate forecasting, optimisation, and pricing models into production systems.
- Raise Engineering Standards: Mentor senior engineers, influence architectural direction, and improve engineering practices across the organisation.
- Design for Scale: Anticipate scaling challenges before they emerge - improving throughput, resilience, and platform evolution as the business grows.
Requirements
What you’ll need- Strong Technical Leadership: You’ve operated at Staff or Senior Staff level and have led technically complex initiatives with meaningful business impact.
- Distributed Systems Expertise: Deep experience designing and operating scalable backend systems, event-driven architectures, APIs, and asynchronous workflows.
- Hands-On Engineering Depth: You still enjoy building software directly - writing production code, reviewing designs, debugging systems, and improving architecture.
- Modern Backend Experience: Strong experience with technologies such as:
- - Python
- - AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB)
- - Event-driven/serverless architectures
- - Distributed systems and workflow orchestration
- Systems Thinking: You’re comfortable reasoning about correctness, failure modes, data consistency, scalability, and operational trade-offs in complex systems.
- Cross-Functional Influence: You can align technical decisions with product, commercial, and customer outcomes while navigating ambiguity effectively.
- Pragmatic Problem-Solving: You enjoy untangling difficult technical and organisational problems using first-principles thinking.
Benefits
Comp & perks- Competitive salary - We review salaries twice a year using real-time market data, with transparent, consistent pay for the same role and level.
- 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.
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Hard Skills & Tools
distributed systemsbackend servicesAPIsevent-driven workflowsdata modelsscalabilityreliabilitycorrectnessproduction codearchitecture
Soft Skills
technical leadershipcross-functional influencepragmatic problem-solvingmentoringstakeholder alignmentcommunicationsystems thinkingproblem-solvingcollaborationinfluence