Technical Lead

Head of Engineering / Senior Engineering Manager (Go / GCP)

£80,000 - £90,000 + benefits

London - 1-2 days per week onsite (potential flexibility for the right person)

We’re working with a growing AI/infrastructure technology business building cutting-edge software used across critical infrastructure environments.

They’re looking for a hands-on Engineering Manager / Head of Engineering to help manage and scale a small multidisciplinary engineering team whilst remaining heavily involved technically. This is roughly a 50/50 split between hands-on engineering/architecture and people leadership.

The environment is pragmatic and collaborative - they’re not looking for a “superstar” CTO profile, more someone technically solid who can guide a team, make sensible architectural decisions and help drive delivery.

What you’ll be doing

• Leading and mentoring a team of engineers across backend, platform and frontend
• Remaining hands-on with backend engineering (primarily Go)
• Helping shape system architecture and technical direction
• Working closely with Product and leadership on delivery priorities
• Supporting engineering best practices, CI/CD and platform reliability
• Helping scale engineering processes and team structure as the company grows

Tech Environment

• Go
• GCP
• Linux
• React / TypeScript
• GitHub / CI/CD
• Cloudflare
• Sentry

What they’re looking for

• Strong backend engineering experience with Go
• Good understanding of distributed/backend systems and architecture
• Experience leading or mentoring engineers
• Comfortable operating in a smaller, scaling engineering environment
• Strong communication and stakeholder skills
• GCP and Linux experience

Useful extras

• Computer Vision / AI exposure
• Python experience
• Platform / DevOps understanding

The company works on genuinely interesting “tech for good” problems, applying AI and computer vision to improve infrastructure safety and efficiency across large-scale transport environments.