Engineering Lead (up to £150k)

This role is with one of Dex's trusted partner companies. We work closely with their teams to truly understand their culture, goals, and what they're looking for, so we can match you with the right opportunity and give you context about the role before you commit to a process.
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The role
This company is building the CRM for the AI era. They're focused on real-time infrastructure and AI-native architecture, with a frontend their engineers genuinely love. Backed by leading investors, they're growing rapidly and have significant funding.
You'll join a rapidly scaling engineering team, taking ownership of a new product area. This role is 80% hands-on engineering, 20% leadership, designed for Staff Engineers or Tech Leads ready to build and mentor a small team of 3-5 direct reports for the first time. It's a path into management that rewards staying deeply technical, not a pure people-management track.
The work
Deeply contribute to either backend (TypeScript/Node.js, Go) or frontend (React) development.
Recruit, mentor, and grow a focused team of 3-5 engineers within your product area.
Own a product area end-to-end, from conception through delivery and iteration.
Evolve the core architecture to support significant scale and new AI-native features.
Shape product decisions directly through customer conversations and technical insight.
What You Bring
Deep expertise in a modern typed language (Go, TypeScript/Node.js, Python, Rust, C++ or similar) for backend, or React for frontend.
Experience as a Tech Lead or Staff Engineer, driving multi-engineer projects and setting technical direction.
Hands-on experience designing secure, scalable, reliable backend systems on modern cloud platforms (GCP or AWS).
Genuine readiness to take on line management responsibilities: hiring, growing, and owning engineer progression.
Ability to communicate complex technical ideas clearly, influencing decisions across product and design through reasoning.
Why apply through Dex
This is a rare leadership role designed for engineers who want to stay deeply technical while taking on management. Dex helps you cut through the noise to find opportunities like this, where the fit is precise and the context is clear. Skip the cold application process; sign up once, get a full brief on this role, and explore other curated, anonymous opportunities that match your unique profile.
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