Product Engineering Team Lead
Product Engineering Team Lead London, UK | Hybrid (3 days/week) | Permanent, Full-Time
We're hiring a Product Engineering Team Lead to join a fast-growing part of our business, working with major financial services clients — reporting into an engineering leader who's genuinely on a mission to transform and scale this practice.
This is a role split evenly between technical leadership and people leadership. You'll need real depth in Java, React and Spring Boot — confident enough to design a solution and defend it credibly to a sharp, technical client stakeholder — alongside strong team management experience and the personality to match: someone who builds trust fast, coaches well, and leads with credibility rather than just authority.
You'll be:
-Leading and growing one or more delivery teams, with genuine day-to-day people management and career development responsibility
-Owning technical solution design and defending it to client stakeholders
-Managing client expectations, including knowing when and how to push back — tactfully but firmly
-Navigating enterprise-level governance and process pragmatically, without losing delivery momentum
Acting as the "go-to" person for your key stakeholders
What we're looking for:
-Deep, hands-on Java, React and Spring Boot expertise (non-negotiable)
-Broader technical range across the wider stack, cloud (GCP/Azure/AWS) and microservices
-Proven engineering leadership and team management experience
-Strong stakeholder management and tactful pushback skills
-A pragmatic, get-it-done mindset suited to enterprise process
-The right personality — approachable, credible, calm under pressure, genuinely invested in developing people
This is a rare opportunity to help shape and grow this part of the business alongside a leader who's genuinely invested in transformation.
Top global employer offering a competitive package including pension, healthcare, life assurance, and extensive training.
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