Lead Software Engineer

1 month ago

Remote, United Kingdom or London, United KingdomStaff+

Responsibilities

Own the technical architecture, roadmap, standards, design patterns, and end-to-end delivery of the PRIIP Cloud platform.
Build and improve user interfaces, backend services, APIs, integrations, databases, data processing, cloud-native infrastructure, and operational tooling.
Lead technical decisions and ensure solutions are scalable, secure, resilient, observable, performant, reliable, and maintainable.
Drive automated testing, CI/CD adoption, infrastructure-as-code, engineering automation, software quality, and developer productivity.
Own production operations, including monitoring, observability, alerting, incident management, troubleshooting, capacity planning, service restoration, runbooks, and resilience improvements.
Partner with Product, Operations, Compliance, Architecture, Product Owners, quantitative analysts, and regulatory specialists to translate business and regulatory requirements into technical solutions.
Mentor and coach engineers, support recruitment and onboarding, and contribute to team members’ career development and continuous learning.

At least 8 years of software engineering experience with significant full-stack development experience.
Previous experience as a Lead Developer, Technical Lead, Principal Engineer, or in a similar role.
Proven experience owning production systems and supporting live business-critical platforms.
Strong experience designing and building cloud-native distributed systems and hands-on experience across frontend and backend technologies.
Experience with TypeScript, Node.js, React or modern web frameworks, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and modern DevOps practices.
Experience working in financial services or another highly regulated environment.
Strong stakeholder management, mentoring, and technical leadership capabilities.
Preferred experience includes structured products, equity-linked products, OTC derivatives, regulatory documentation, PRIIPs, financial reporting platforms, SaaS operations, Kafka, OAuth2, OpenID Connect, SAML, Keycloak, Datadog, Grafana, Elastic, OpenTelemetry, and AI-assisted software development practices.

201-500 employees