LeadEngineer

OVERVIEW: This is a hands-on Lead Software Engineer role where you'll be writing code, designing integrations and solving hard technical problems day-to-day, driving the technical direction and improving how we do engineering across Platform Engineering. You'll be a recognised domain authority: shaping architectural vision, setting the technical bar, and actively elevating the engineers and leads around you. You will bring both strong backend engineering craft and the presence to make the whole team better through technical credibility, clear thinking, and a genuine investment in how the team grows and delivers WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING: Craft Designs and documents clear architectural diagrams and key decision records that are accessible to both technical and non-technical audiences Ensures the team is using suitable engineering practices, spotting knowledge gaps and helping adopt new and emerging best practices and tooling where appropriate Enforces quality and testing best practices from design through to production Articulates the value of addressing tech debt in terms that resonate with business stakeholders, and creates space to address it iteratively Brings strong technical grounding with enough parity with the team to earn trust quickly, without the instinct to redesign systems from the ground up Delivery Leads the delivery of scalable backend services leveraging Event Driven Architecture and AWS Serverless technologies: Lambda, EventBridge, SQS, DynamoDB Leads the team to design and build APIs (REST & GraphQL) that support world-class customer-facing features Has the toolkit to work on complex and unknown problems under pressure or at speed, including leading on business-critical incidents Delegates low-risk technical decisions that can be revisited if needed, and personally owns high-risk technical decisions that are harder to change Champions testable, maintainable, observable and scalable software, embedding CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code as first-class cons