Engineering Lead

1 hour, 56 minutes ago
Full-time
Lead
Software Development
The Key

The Key

The Key provides whole school support in leadership, governance, safeguarding, and CPD. They offer trusted resources, guidance, and sector intelligence to empower education leaders with the knowledge to act and make a real impact in their schools and c...

Diversified Consumer Services
51-250
Founded 2007

Description

  • Code alongside the squad and establish engineering standards through implementation and code review.
  • Own the architecture, long-term health, and safe operation of the squad’s applications and services.
  • Provide technical feasibility input during product discovery and approve product briefs before sprint planning.
  • Deliver tested code every sprint and support launches on the termly cadence.
  • Participate in customer conversations to maintain direct understanding of user problems.
  • Line-manage engineers through regular 1-to-1s, development plans, mentoring, and performance discussions.
  • Build an engaged and sustainable squad culture as part of the engineering leadership group.
  • Use agentic coding practices and promote adoption of AI-assisted engineering across the squad.
  • Collaborate with squad leads, the Staff Engineer, Platform, and Core teams on shared services and dependencies.

Requirements

  • Senior engineering experience with recent work on modern web stacks, including TypeScript, React, Node.js, and Python.
  • Daily experience using agentic coding tools such as Claude Code or similar.
  • A track record of improving others’ AI-assisted engineering practices.
  • Proven technical leadership as a tech lead, lead engineer, or small-team manager.
  • Experience owning architecture and mentoring engineers.
  • Experience with line management, or clear readiness to take on people management with support.
  • Ability to partner effectively with product teams, contribute to discovery, and offer practical alternatives.
  • Excellent written and spoken English.
  • Experience building LLM-powered product features is preferred.
  • SaaS, EdTech, or compliance experience and comfort working with legacy and greenfield systems are preferred.

Benefits

  • Generous holiday allowance.
  • Flexible working hours and the ability to buy or sell holiday.
  • Enhanced maternity pay.
  • Training, development, and ongoing support for career progression.
  • Work-life balance within a socially conscious organization.
  • Free breakfast, fruit, and drinks.
  • Regular company socials.

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