2 months ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define technical strategy and architecture across Platform, AI, Retrieval, and shared engineering services.
- Partner with Engineering Leaders and Staff Engineers to drive technical direction and platform investments.
- Design scalable backend systems, APIs, and shared platform capabilities.
- Guide architecture across teams, reduce complexity, and establish common technical patterns.
- Partner with AI and Retrieval teams to build scalable search and RAG capabilities.
- Lead complex cross-team technical initiatives from design through production.
- Improve platform reliability, scalability, observability, and developer experience.
- Contribute hands-on to critical technical work and raise engineering standards through design reviews, mentoring, and technical leadership.
- Use AI-assisted engineering to improve productivity and accelerate delivery.
Requirements
- Experience designing and building large-scale backend systems and distributed architectures.
- Strong systems design skills and experience leading cross-team technical initiatives.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure, AWS, Kubernetes, APIs, and modern backend development.
- Familiarity with AI-powered systems, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, search platforms, or vector databases.
- Strong programming experience in Python or another modern backend language.
- Ability to influence technical direction without direct authority.
- Excellent communication skills and enthusiasm for mentoring engineers and raising engineering standards.
- Founding engineer or CTO experience, early-stage systems-building experience, or legacy-system modernization experience is preferred.
Benefits
- Competitive salary, equity options, pension with 9fin matching up to 7%, private medical insurance, paid sick leave with income protection, and group life assurance.
- Season ticket loan and Cycle to Work schemes.
- 25 holiday days per year plus local public holidays, with the ability to exchange holidays for alternative days.
- Hybrid working model with flexibility over where and when to work.
- Ability to work abroad for up to 3 months per year.
- One month of paid sabbatical after 5 years of service.
- Enhanced parental leave and flexible working arrangements.
- Professional learning and development budget and regular company social events.
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