Senior Staff Full Stack Engineer

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Set Technical Direction: Define and evolve the architecture across our acquisition and success platforms, ensuring scalability, resilience, and clarity of ownership across teams.
• - Drive Multi-Team Initiatives: Lead complex, cross-functional engineering efforts that span teams and systems — aligning stakeholders, reducing ambiguity, and delivering high-leverage outcomes.
• - Build & Ship: Remain deeply hands-on — designing, coding, and reviewing critical components across back-end systems, APIs, infrastructure, and front-end applications.
• - Strengthen Foundations: Improve platform reliability, developer experience, observability, testing strategy, and deployment practices to enable faster, safer shipping across the organisation.
• - Accelerate Product Innovation: Partner closely with Product and Design to translate ambiguous problem spaces into scalable technical solutions, balancing speed with long-term quality.
• - Multiply Impact: Mentor Staff and Senior Engineers, raise engineering standards, and act as a trusted technical advisor to leadership.
• - Plan for Scale: Anticipate bottlenecks before they emerge — proactively designing systems, processes, and data flows that support rapid company growth.

Required Skills

• - Senior technical leadership experience: Experience operating at Staff+ or Senior Staff level in a high-growth startup or scale-up, with clear evidence of organisation-wide impact.
• - Architectural depth: Proven ability to design and evolve complex distributed systems spanning APIs, event-driven workflows, data systems, and front-end applications.
• - Multi-team influence: Experience leading cross-team initiatives and driving alignment across engineering, product, and business stakeholders.
• - Modern tech expertise: Deep experience with: Python and/or Node.js, AWS serverless architecture (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB), Event-driven systems and asynchronous workflows.
• - Strong front-end fluency: Confident architecting and building modern, performant React applications that integrate seamlessly with complex back-end systems.
• - Product & business alignment: Demonstrated ability to connect technical decisions to business outcomes and customer experience.
• - Navigating ambiguity: Comfort operating in evolving environments, defining direction where it doesn’t yet exist.

Benefits

• - Competitive salary - our current band for this role is £129,500 or equivalent in local currency.
• - Stock Options - everyone on the team has ownership in our mission.
• - 25 days holiday + public holidays - Swap public holidays for ones that matter most to you. Plus, get an extra day off for your birthday 🎉.
• - Remote & flexible working - We’re fully remote with clear core hours, and no internal meetings on Friday afternoons.
• - Home working & wellbeing budgets: Up to £1,200 / €1,200 annually to upgrade your remote setup (co-working passes, equipment, etc.).
• - Up to £150 / €150 monthly on anything that supports your wellbeing - from therapy to gym memberships to meditation apps.