Engineering Lead

Engineering Lead - Python

📍 Location: Remote - UK-based (30 days outside UK per annum)

💸 Salary: £100,000-130,000

📈 Heavily Funded: Series C, fast-scaling consumer tech

⚙️ Technical Environment: Python, Event-driven, Distributed Systems, AWS

We're partnered with a fast-growing, heavily funded technology platform as they scale multiple engineering teams.

The ambition is to disrupt a legacy industry through a genuinely superior, tech-first user experience and loyalty strategy.

This is a business that owns its entire tech stack end-to-end. No white-label shortcuts. That means the engineering team has the freedom to build in a customer and product driven environment with creativity and cadence.

This role leads a brand new team driving their core revenue in a new geographic territory. This hire will be the technical anchor on the backend side of the squad. You'll own the APIs that power the customer-facing product, be involved from problem statement through to release, and play a direct role in shaping how the domain evolves.

The systems challenge is real: high-throughput event-driven architecture on AWS, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, averaging 6+ backend releases per week with a target of 20+. Fast but safe is their culture. They're also experimenting with Rust for performance-critical workloads and are early-but-genuine adopters of AI tooling across the engineering org.

Small squads, high trust, high ownership and autonomy to decide what needs to be built.

Requirements

• Experience of leading a squad (3+ SWEs)
• Strong backend engineering experience, ideally in Python, though they'll flex for the right profile with similar architectural experience
• Proven track record building and owning production-grade APIs with performance in mind
• Comfortable contributing to systems design and architectural decisions, not just implementation
• Product-curious: you care that your work reaches users and has an impact, not just that the code is clean
• Experience with distributed systems or event-driven architectures is an advantage