What You'll Do
Guide the technical evolution of critical systems across multiple engineering teams, ensuring alignment with long-term business goals and customer needs. You’ll work directly in code while setting architectural standards that support scalability, resilience, and speed.
Collaborate with engineering, product, and design leaders to define roadmaps and make balanced decisions that weigh technical debt, risk, and impact. You'll clarify complex challenges, align teams around shared objectives, and adjust pace to balance innovation with system stability.
Drive consistency in design across services and teams, ensuring local solutions fit within the broader platform strategy. Champion engineering excellence by raising quality benchmarks, improving reliability, and promoting best practices in distributed systems.
Invest in the growth of senior engineers through coaching and sponsorship, helping them expand their influence and technical depth. Your leadership will amplify the capabilities of others, creating lasting impact beyond your direct contributions.
Requirements
- Proven experience leading technical direction for large, distributed systems with significant scale and complexity
- Strong coding background with expertise in backend development and service-oriented architectures
- Ability to navigate uncertainty and help teams define clear paths forward
- Demonstrated success influencing stakeholders across engineering, product, and leadership
- Skill in balancing technical rigor with business priorities to deliver measurable outcomes
- Commitment to mentoring engineers and building stronger technical teams
- Experience working with scalable data platforms and cloud infrastructure
Technology Environment
Work in a modern stack built on Go, Cassandra, Kafka, and Kubernetes, deployed across AWS and GCP. Services are containerized with Docker and orchestrated at scale. Machine learning integration happens through Feast, while frontend components use React. The environment supports rapid iteration with strong observability and automation.
Benefits
- Annual £1,000 learning budget for courses, books, and conferences
- Support for relocation to the UK, including visa sponsorship
- Flexible working hours with trust-based scheduling
- Remote-friendly setup with company-issued MacBook and home office support
- Opportunities for remote work within the UK, with occasional in-person collaboration in London
- Active participation in open source projects and internal knowledge exchange
Compensation
Salary range of £135,000 to £184,000, with additional equity through share options. Total compensation reflects experience and impact, with a total potential package up to £184,000 including benefits.
