Tech Lead - Optimisation Engineering

As Tech Lead in Optimization Engineering, you guide a cross-functional team to deliver decision-support software that tackles disruption management, recovery planning, and crew optimisation for one of Europe’s largest airline operations. You balance people leadership with deep technical excellence, shaping scalable architectures and production systems used by product, operations research, and operational stakeholders. You drive quality, reliability, and measurable impact while mentoring engineers and aligning technical work with business outcomes. This role offers the chance to influence product direction and engineering culture in a real-world, high-stakes environment.

• 20% bonus
• 7% pension
• private medical insurance
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• annual credit towards an easyJet holiday
• staff travel benefits

• Lead and develop a cross-functional engineering team
• Provide technical leadership across architecture, services, APIs, data pipelines and optimisation platforms
• Collaborate with Product Managers and operations stakeholders to translate requirements into delivered solutions
• Integrate solver technologies into production systems while ensuring performance and explainability
• Establish engineering practices: code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, monitoring, incident management
• Contribute to architecture reviews, prototyping and critical-path delivery work

• Significant experience leading engineering teams delivering production-grade software
• Experience with optimisation, scheduling or decision-support applications
• Strong software engineering and system design skills
• Experience building scalable services, APIs and distributed systems
• Knowledge of optimisation concepts (constraint-based, heuristics, MILP)
• Hands-on programming in Python, Java, C#, or C++
• Experience with solvers like Gurobi, CPLEX or equivalents
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
• Ability to translate operational challenges into practical engineering solutions
• Mentoring and developing high-performing teams

• stakeholder management
• communication
• mentoring
• Python
• Java
• C#