Engineering Lead

Your Mission

As an Engineering Lead, you will lead a cross-functional product engineering squad building complex B2B SaaS products across HR, employee benefits and fintech.

This is a true player-coach role: you'll manage 4-8 engineers across frontend, backend and mobile, while staying hands-on in the code to lead by example.

Working closely with Product, Design and the CTO, you’ll balance people leadership, delivery, technical direction and cross-functional collaboration equally.

Your mission is to help your team ship high-quality software, grow into stronger product engineers and continue adopting AI-native and agentic ways of working that help us move faster, work smarter and raise the bar on quality.

We’re looking for someone who thrives in a high-ownership, high-impact environment. Our teams are small, which means that autonomy and accountability are real and the work you do will be felt across the business.

Things you will be working on…

• Line managing 4-8 product engineers in a cross-functional squad, supporting their growth through clear expectations, regular feedback and objective performance evaluation

• Staying hands-on in the code along your team, contributing to strategic, high-impact work and leading by example on quality, pace and engineering craft

• Providing technical guidance on complex B2B SaaS products and features across the HR, employee benefits, and fintech domains

• Partnering closely with Product and Design to shape solutions, challenge complexity and make smart trade-offs on scope & delivery

• Owning squad delivery end-to-end, helping the team deliver on commitments and ship with consistency & quality

• Mentoring engineers on technical problem-solving, system design and career development

• Driving the adoption of AI tooling and agentic development workflows across the squad and wider engineering org in practical thoughtful ways

• Building a high-performing, accountable team culture where engineers are supported, stretched and recognised for great work

You will love this role if you have…

• Experience line managing engineers and helping them grow into stronger, more confident product engineers

• Senior-level expertise in at least some areas of our stack: Python, Django, TypeScript, React, React Native, Celery or Temporal

• A track record of shipping high-quality products in B2B SaaS environments

• A real enthusiasm for AI tooling and agentic development workflows, with a desire to keep pushing adoption further

• The ability to move comfortably between coding, coaching, technical decision-making and stakeholder conversations

• Experience working in product engineering environments, ideally using Shape Up or similar product development processes

• A high bar for accountability, ownership and follow-through for both yourself and your team

You will not love this role if you….

• Want a pure people-management role or a pure IC role: this is a player-coach position that requires both

• Need a lot of certainty before you can move: we work with context, judgement and ownership, not perfect information

• You'd rather refine existing workflows than reimagine them, and AI-assisted or agentic development feel like friction rather than opportunity.

• Avoid accountability conversations or find it difficult to hold a high bar on commitments and performance

• Prefer highly structured environments with rigid processes and clearly defined boundaries

• Are uncomfortable with ambiguity and taking the lead on figuring things out

• Prefer maintaining the status quo over improving systems, habits and team effectiveness

You will not love this role if you…

• Prefer a slow or highly predictable pace we move quickly and value action

• Feel uncomfortable owning projects end-to-end and being accountable for outcomes

• Prefer maintaining the status quo we challenge assumptions and improve constantly

• Want a heavily structured environment we’re still building processes as we grow

• Struggle with ambiguity or prefer prescriptive direction you’ll get context, but you’ll need to figure things out

• Wait for others to take initiative this is a proactive, high-performance team

Our Compensation & Benefits

It’s important to us to practise what we preach when it comes to our benefits. We know what good looks like and we want to provide the best for our team, with a comprehensive and inclusive benefits package. This means you have a choice over the things that are most important to you. You can see a selection below, along with the full offering here.

💰 Competitive base salary + equity, so you own what you build

💳 £100 monthly personal Ben Balance: for whatever works for you, whether that's Netflix, Spotify, or a really expensive cup of coffee! This allowance will increase by £50 for each year of service until you reach £250

🍔 Weekly lunch provided in office so you can spend quality time with the team over some tasty food!

🏖 28 days of holidays a year plus bank holidays, and an option to buy or sell 2 days per year. Also, your annual holiday entitlement will increase to 30 days after your 3rd year of service!
🎈 Day off for your birthday

🌴 Work-from-abroad scheme, so you can support your travels, enjoy an extended holiday, or visit loved ones.

🍼 Enhanced parental leave and workplace nursery scheme to support with the cost of childcare in a nursery setting

❤️ Comprehensive Private Medical Insurance

💌 Funded Life Assurance cover with the option to voluntarily increase - this also includes an annual health check

🧠 Comprehensive and tailored mental health support and professional coaching through a leading provider

Diversity and Culture at Ben

We are organically growing a brilliantly diverse, inclusive and respectful bunch of people we are extremely proud of. This should go without saying but all applications are very much welcome. If you need any adjustments to support you with your application, just let us know by emailing [email protected]. You can learn more about DEI at Ben here.