Engineering Lead - Ptech - HRIS - Growth Team

Requirements:

• Engineering Leadership: Experience managing or leading engineering teams, with a proven track record of coaching talent, conducting performance reviews, and building high-performing cultures.
• Domain Expertise: Good experience within the HR Tech ecosystem or employee experience platforms (e.g. recruitment tools, onboarding systems, core HRIS systems).
• Technical Background: Strong engineering foundation with experience delivering technical roadmaps and making sound architectural/integration decisions (APIs, data mapping, automated workflows).
• Value-Driven & Collaboration: Strong communication skills with an ability to collaborate across functions (Product, Design etc) to challenge opinions in an egoless manner and align technical capabilities to the product roadmap.
• Structured execution: Ability to bring structure to complex environments, coaching the team through a new way of working to align with the engineering practices of the wider Platform tribe.

Nice to Have:

• Experience working in a fast-paced environment with a cross-functional, globally distributed team.
• Strong understanding of agile development methodologies.
• Background in turning traditional IT support/service processes into automated, self-service platform products.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Own the Technical Roadmap: Drive the technical roadmap for the People Tech Growth team, actively identifying and addressing technical debt, reliability, security, and scalability concerns.
• Deliver the Journey Layer: Ensure the team shifts from purely maintaining SaaS configurations to supporting end-to-end employee journeys with genuine engineering rigor.
• Maintain Product Quality: Hold a high standard for the quality of the products you own, deeply caring about the internal customer experience.
• Day-to-day Execution: Act as an active contributor to the delivery of your team by supporting daily execution, managing incident resolution, and establishing appropriate support SLAs and documentation.
• Standardize Engineering Rituals: Implement a 'Think, Build, Fix' framework using Jira Product Discovery (JPD) for ideation, Jira Software for planned builds, and consistent bi-weekly agile sprint cadences.

Perks and Benefits:

• Starting salary: £105,000 - £135,000 + RSUs