Senior Staff Backend Engineer

Role Overview

• Partner with Engineering Directors to shape the technical and product direction of a collective, providing leadership across multiple squads (30–70+ engineers) and ensuring alignment with company-wide priorities.
• Be hands on in both coding and architecture, leading from the front.
• Partner closely with Product and Design leadership to define strategy, shape roadmaps, and make high-quality trade-offs that maximise business and customer impact across the collective.
• Mobilise teams across your collective around high-impact problems, creating clarity, alignment and momentum, injecting urgency when needed, or slowing things down to ensure safety and long-term sustainability.
• Lead and influence architectural direction for the most complex systems, ensuring cohesive, scalable designs across multiple teams and aligning local decisions with the broader system strategy.
• Set and uphold a high bar for technical excellence across the collective, driving improvements in quality, reliability and scalability, and fostering a culture where engineers hold each other to that standard.
• Proactively mentor, sponsor and develop senior engineers and future leaders, multiplying your impact by enabling others to operate at a higher level.

Requirements

• You have a track record of leading complex, high-impact systems and driving technical direction across multiple teams
• You combine strong technical judgment with product and business awareness, making pragmatic trade-offs
• You’ve worked on scalable backend, distributed or data-intensive systems
• You’re comfortable operating in ambiguous problem spaces, helping teams define direction and execute
• You influence and align senior stakeholders across engineering, product and beyond
• You care about outcomes and impact, using data to guide decisions
• You enjoy mentoring and raising the bar for other engineers

Benefits

• £1,000 learning budget each year to use on books, training courses and conferences.
• We’ll help you relocate to the UK.
• We can sponsor your visa.
• Flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, and at times that suit you and your team.
• We will set you up to work from home; all employees are given Macbooks and for fully remote workers we will provide extra support for your work-from-home setup.