Job Description
Lead Backend Engineer
London (Hybrid)
Basic salary up to £120k + excellent benefits
This Lead Backend Engineer role offers the chance to step into a senior technical position within a fast-scaling, well-funded technology business where Back End engineering plays a central role in product delivery. It's an opportunity for a Lead Backend Engineer who wants to take ownership of complex systems, influence how platforms are built, and play a key part in shaping the next phase of growth.
As a Lead Backend Engineer, you'll work within a product-led engineering team responsible for designing and evolving core Back End services that support customer-facing features at scale. The role will focus on building resilient, observable systems, applying strong engineering judgement to ensure services remain reliable and maintainable as demand and complexity increase.
The Lead Backend Engineer will operate as a hands-on technical leader, remaining close to the code while also guiding architectural decisions and supporting delivery across the team. In this environment, you are trusted to own outcomes, drive technical standards, and help define how engineering work is approached. Collaboration is a key part of the role, with the Lead Backend Engineer working closely with product managers, designers, and other senior engineers.
Lead Backend Engineer - Key Requirements:
- Strong experience as a Lead Backend Engineer or senior-level Back End engineer, using Python or another modern Back End language
- Proven ability to design, build, and evolve scalable Back End systems within distributed architectures
- Deep understanding of software engineering fundamentals, including system design, performance, and reliability
- Experience influencing architecture and technical direction across services or teams
- Confidence leading complex technical initiatives from early design through to delivery
- Experience mentoring and supporting other engineers, setting direction through example
- Product-aware mindset, with the ability to balance engineering quality with real user impact
- Comfortable communicating technical decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Lead Backend Engineer - Salary & Benefits:
- Basic salary up to £120k
- Performance bonus
- Share options
- Private medical insurance
- Generous holiday allowance
- Flexible hybrid working model
- Learning & development budget
- Wellbeing benefits and additional perks
If you're a Lead Backend Engineer looking for a role where you can genuinely shape technical direction, system design, and delivery standards, this is a strong opportunity to make a lasting impact within a growing, product-driven business.
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates, regardless of race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, or age.
