Requirements:

You operate at a Staff engineer level, a recognized technical authority that other engineers turn to for guidance on hard problems.
You have hands-on experience building and operating backend systems for a web or data platform of meaningful scale.
Experience with C#/.NET and SQL is a strong plus, though not required. What matters most is depth with backend systems generally.
Experience designing or building GraphQL and/or REST APIs is a plus.
Experience with reporting or scheduled-reporting systems is a plus.
Experience building AI or agentic systems is a plus.
You're actively seeking a path into people management, not just willing to tolerate it. You can point to some experience mentoring, leading, or informally guiding other engineers already.
You operate independently in ambiguity, scoping, sequencing, and driving execution on complex backend problems without much hand-holding.
You communicate clearly with engineers and non-technical stakeholders alike, including around trade-offs and risk.
You take ownership of what you build in production, not just what you ship.

What You'll Be Doing:

Design, build, and operate backend systems supporting a high-traffic web and data platform, as a Staff-level technical authority on the team.
Act as a technical reviewer and mentor in design and code reviews, raising the engineering bar for the team.
Drive technical direction on ambiguous, cross-cutting problems, balancing reliability, performance, and delivery speed.
Partner with adjacent teams and platform governance groups to align on shared standards and systems.
Ramp up on our systems and technical domain first. From there, you'll take on direct management of a senior engineer, with a short runway to grow into leading a larger engineering team as we scale headcount in London.
This role is a deliberate growth track toward people management. We're looking for someone who actively wants to build and lead a team over time, not someone content to stay purely IC indefinitely.
Once you're managing, you'll run regular 1:1s, own performance and growth conversations, and take part in hiring as the team scales.
Represent your team's technical direction and staffing needs in cross-functional planning.

Experience with C#/.NET and SQL is a strong plus, though not required. What matters most is depth with backend systems generally.
Experience designing or building GraphQL and/or REST APIs is a plus.
Experience with reporting or scheduled-reporting systems is a plus.
Experience building AI or agentic systems is a plus.