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

Work arrangement
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