Lead Engineer

Lead Engineer – Cloud Platform / Greenfield Build

Location – London (office-led)

Salary – £105,000 (with flex) + bonus/benefits

High Ownership, Modern Stack, Hands-on Leadership

We’re working with a global, product-led organisation building out new, customer-facing platforms used at scale across financial services, travel, and retail.

Their focus is on creating modern, cloud-native systems that power high-volume, real-time customer experiences, with increasing adoption of AI, automation, and event-driven architectures across their platforms.

The Opportunity

This is a lead-level, hands-on engineering role with genuine ownership and autonomy.

You’ll lead a small squad of engineers while remaining deeply embedded in the code, shaping the architecture, engineering standards, and overall technical direction of new platform initiatives.

The role is particularly well suited to someone who enjoys building systems from scratch, working closely with product, and solving complex technical problems at scale.

What You’ll Be Doing

Designing and building scalable, cloud-native systems and APIs
Leading technical decision-making across architecture and engineering standards
Remaining hands-on with coding, reviews, and system design
Building full-stack solutions (backend services and supporting UI where needed)
Working with event-driven, distributed architectures
Deploying and managing systems on AWS using Kubernetes and Terraform
Driving best practices across CI/CD, testing (TDD), and observability
Mentoring engineers while contributing at a senior technical level

What They’re Looking For

Current Lead Engineer / Tech Lead experience
Strong TypeScript / JavaScript background (full stack)
Solid AWS + cloud-native engineering experience
Experience building production-grade APIs
Comfortable owning solutions end-to-end
Passion for mentoring and raising the bar technically

Why it’s Worth a look

Proper hands-on leadership (not a step away from code)
Greenfield environment – build things the right way
Strong engineering culture (TDD, DevOps, modern tooling)
High-impact role with real ownership and autonomy

Things to Consider

Office-led environment based in London
High standards and expectations around engineering quality
Best suited to engineers who enjoy ownership, pace, and technical depth

If you’re a senior engineer who enjoys leading from the front, building modern systems at scale, and working closely with product and engineering leadership, this is worth exploring.

Please apply directly for immediate consideration

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