Software Engineering Team Lead

This role is designed for someone who excels in fast-paced environments, thrives in ambiguity, and can quickly bring clarity, leadership, and momentum.

Your impact will span people development, technical strategy, infrastructure leadership, and driving engineering excellence across the company.

Responsibilities

Lead, develop, and mentor 46 software engineers; drive talent management, including hiring, growth, feedback, and performance.
Take ownership of team prioritization, decision-making, and handling of shifting priorities across multiple pods, initiatives, and stakeholders.
Drive engineering excellence - elevate standards, methodologies, and best practices within the team and across the R&D organisation.
Provide hands-on technical leadership (up to ~50% of the role):
Debugging and supporting production systems
Code and design reviews
Guiding architectural decisions
Contributing to fire-fighting and operational workflows
Partnering with the existing team leads to shaping the teams future structure (e.g., division between Collection/Base and On-Demand domains).
Own areas of technical infrastructure end-to-end and push forward improvements, standardization, and long-term scalability.
Serve as a key decision-maker in cross-company architecture forums and collaborative initiatives.
Drive clarity and prioritization for engineers, helping them focus, make thoughtful decisions, and grow their ownership.
Participate in on-call rotations to support critical systems (with full team support and documentation).