Senior Software Engineer Lead

In this role you lead the Uncheck engineering effort, guiding technical strategy while contributing hands-on code. You act as tech lead for an AI-first product that automates accounting disclosures and supports regulatory decisions at enterprise scale. You will collaborate with product and research teams, ensure secure, reliable cloud delivery, and drive delivery across regions. This is a hands-on leadership role with real impact in a fast-growing, high-trust domain.

• hybrid working policy (Central London office)
• office in Bloomsbury near stations
• free team lunches Mon–Thu
• share options
• private health insurance with Bupa
• Juno rewards program

• Own the technical plan for Uncheck and drive delivery against customer commitments
• Write production code and review colleagues’ work as a hands-on contributor
• Lead AI agent usage, including code review, testing, and safe shipping
• Ensure reliability and security of Uncheck in the cloud as it scales
• Lead technical discussions with customers’ IT, security and architecture teams
• Collaborate with product and research to turn feedback into priorities
• Mentor engineers across the team

• AI-first experience and comfortable with agent-written code
• Led delivery for a team of 4–8 engineers shipping to enterprise customers
• Mentored engineers and supported professional growth
• Strong communication with customers and non-engineers; adept at enterprise-level technical conversations
• Strong back-end experience in any language, capable of making sound technical decisions
• Owned production cloud services, ideally on AWS, with code review, automated testing, CI/CD and on-call
• Understanding of enterprise security and compliance expectations

• clear communication
• leadership
• mentoring
• AI agents and agent-written code
• back-end development
• cloud infrastructure (AWS)