Lead Engineer: Platform team

Lead engineer role - High Growth scale-up! If you're looking to join one of Europe's most exciting and impactful consumer scale-ups, in a role where you combine technical expertise, hands-on execution & product sense, with empowering and leading an incredibly talented team, this one could be for you! The company itself: One of Europe's most exciting, well-funded scale-ups building a product making lives better! Sitting at the cutting-edge of technology with an industry-leading product, here's some highlights of where they are at! 🔥$100M ARR 🔥20X growth rate vs industry competitors and established enterprise 🔥Leader within Applied AI in their space 🔥Hundreds of Thousands of customers across Europe 🔥Incredibly well funded, scaling organically, expanding across Europe The role! As lead engineer, you will sit as part of the senior engineering leadership, reporting directly to the CTO/co-founder. You'll lead an incredibly talented & senior team focused on building the core platform, infrastructure - central to the product and organization. This is a hands-on role, where you'll be directly contributing to the product & technical roadmap, defining architecture, building & shipping product, whilst empowering a highly autonomous team of engineers who know what they are doing. On the personnel side, you'll have ownership over the roadmap, sprint planning, delivery, optimizing the team & engaging with product & commercial stakeholders to deliver on super exciting, complex engineering challenges and launches. Requirements:

• 7+ Years of experience at least as a software engineer
• 2+ Years as lead engineer, hands-on engineering manager or similar, whether it be a formal title or not
• E2E ownership: Architecture, system design, development, deployment
• Strong commercial and product sense: You have a high level overview and reasoning based on the commercial & product impact of what you are your team and building, not stuck in the details of the code
• Startup pace, ownership, autonomy: You're comfortable in ambiguity, high pace, shipping fast
• Experience mentoring, coaching, holding 1-1s, performance reviews, roadmap alignment on the personnel side, and you are comfortable
• Strong hands-on experience with TypeScript, Python, Node.js, Next.js, AWS, IaaC and comfortable working with data stores and warehouses like MongoDB and BigQuery
• AI enabled: using modern AI tools & LLMs to optimize your product engineering and delivery

Why join us?

• A genuinely impactful consumer-grade application and platform, sitting at the edge of tech!
• Super collaborative, down-to-earth engineering & company culture.
• Fast pace, a lot to build, plenty of scope, but we aren't struggling for funding and you aren't going to be working every hour of the week. An established product, scaling up, senior team, good balance
• Strong salary package with options

This is a permanent role, hybrid (3 days in office typically). English fluency is required Unable to assist with Visa sponsorship or relocation.