Lead Through Execution: Drive major technical initiatives from design through production, improving scalability, reliability, and correctness across critical systems.
Build Distributed Systems: Design and evolve backend services, APIs, event-driven workflows, and data models that support complex business processes at scale.
Own Critical Platform Infrastructure: Improve the operational foundations of the platform through better observability, testing, deployment safety, and incident reduction.
Solve Complex Workflow Problems: Design systems that handle long-running workflows, asynchronous processing, consistency guarantees, and failure recovery in high-stakes environments.
Work Across Teams: Lead initiatives spanning engineering, product, data, commercial, and machine learning teams
aligning stakeholders and unblocking delivery.
Productionise Machine Learning: Collaborate with ML and data teams to safely integrate forecasting, optimisation, and pricing models into production systems.
Raise Engineering Standards: Mentor senior engineers, influence architectural direction, and improve engineering practices across the organisation.
Design for Scale: Anticipate scaling challenges before they emerge
improving throughput, resilience, and platform evolution as the business grows.

Strong Technical Leadership: You’ve operated at Staff or Senior Staff level and have led technically complex initiatives with meaningful business impact.
Distributed Systems Expertise: Deep experience designing and operating scalable backend systems, event-driven architectures, APIs, and asynchronous workflows.
Hands-On Engineering Depth: You still enjoy building software directly
writing production code, reviewing designs, debugging systems, and improving architecture.
Modern Backend Experience: Strong experience with technologies such as:
Python
AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB)
Event-driven/serverless architectures
Distributed systems and workflow orchestration
Systems Thinking: You’re comfortable reasoning about correctness, failure modes, data consistency, scalability, and operational trade-offs in complex systems.
Cross-Functional Influence: You can align technical decisions with product, commercial, and customer outcomes while navigating ambiguity effectively.
Pragmatic Problem-Solving: You enjoy untangling difficult technical and organisational problems using first-principles thinking.

Competitive salary
We review salaries twice a year using real-time market data, with transparent, consistent pay for the same role and level.
Stock Options
everyone on the team has ownership in our mission.
25 days holiday + public holidays
Swap public holidays for ones that matter most to you. Plus, get an extra day off for your birthday 🎉.
Remote & flexible working
We’re fully remote with clear core hours, and no internal meetings on Friday afternoons.
Home working & wellbeing budgets:
Up to £1,200 / €1,200 annually to upgrade your remote setup (co-working passes, equipment, etc.).
Up to £150 / €150 monthly on anything that supports your wellbeing
from therapy to gym memberships to meditation apps.

Senior Staff Engineer

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