A global SaaS company (confidential at this stage) is investing heavily in a next‑generation greenfield platform and hiring a Lead Engineer (looking after team of 6) to play a pivotal role in its technical direction, architecture, and engineering culture.
This is a chance to own meaningful chunks of a brand-new product build, influence engineering excellence, and work with a team that genuinely values modern technology, continuous improvement, and craftsmanship.
- Pure greenfield engineering: You’ll lead the build-out of new platform capabilities, services, and APIs. Creating the foundation of a large-scale product transformation.
- Modern, clean, cloud-native stack: Engineers here work with Node.js/ Python, TypeScript, AWS Lambda, Terraform, API Gateway, EventBridge, DynamoDB, CDK, Docker
- Huge technical autonomy: You’ll shape architecture, influence system design, and drive best practice across code quality, performance, DevOps, reliability, and scalability.
- Engineering excellence at the core: This is a culture built around standards, testing, automation, continuous improvement, and engineering leadership
- Impact that matters: What you build will directly influence globally-used SaaS products relied on by government, commercial, and enterprise clients.
You will:
- Leading and mentoring engineers while remaining hands-on with modern backend development
- Designing and delivering distributed, event‑driven services on AWS
- Partnering with product & architecture to define solutions and technology direction
- Playing a key role in a multi-year strategic rebuild of platforms and services
- Championing high standards across the engineering organisation
You need:
- Deep experience with Node.js + TypeScript in production systems
- Strong background with AWS (Lambda, EC2/ECS, API Gateway, SQS/SNS, DynamoDB, CloudFormation/CDK etc.)
- Experience building distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and cloud-native services
- A passion for modern engineering, innovation, automation, and “building it right”
- £115k base salary + 15% bonus
- A modern engineering culture that values quality over speed
- A chance to influence technical direction at platform level
- Hybrid working (2 days in Manchester OR London office)
- Backing from a stable, global, profitable SaaS business
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