Software Engineering Lead

You will lead the Investigations team and shape how compliance teams track fund flows and prevent financial crime. Working closely with the product team, you'll help define the technical direction of the platform by turning complex blockchain data into simple, useful product features. You'll lead an empowered team that takes full ownership of its technology stack and product domain, coaching and developing high-performing talent, cultivating a culture of innovation and accountability, and collaborating across the business to deliver meaningful value to users.

Responsibilities

• Write and review code to unblock the team, demonstrate best practices, and pair with engineers to share knowledge and tackle challenging problems
• Help your team make sound technical decisions by weighing trade-offs and choosing approaches that balance technical quality with business objectives
• Work closely with Product and other stakeholders to make sure the team is focused on the work that matters most
• Help team members find their own solutions by building problem-solving skills and creating a self-sufficient, resilient team
• Provide system context and overviews to new team members, accelerating their onboarding and productivity
• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to engineers, managers, and business stakeholders

Requirements

• Led or mentored a small engineering team (around 3–6 people)
• Strong JavaScript and TypeScript skills across both backend (Node.js) and frontend (React) development, familiar with frameworks such as NestJS or Redux
• Thinks architecturally, designing scalable UI applications and APIs, comfortable making informed decisions about technology choices and patterns
• Strong delivery record, having led technical initiatives end-to-end while driving collaboration and maintaining high engineering standards
• Communicates clearly, explaining technical ideas in a way that ensures alignment across engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders
• Hands-on experience using AI coding assistants (Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, etc.) as a core part of daily workflow; able to critically evaluate AI-generated code; some exposure to agentic AI concepts and patterns (e.g. tool calling, multi-step reasoning, or orchestration frameworks such as LangChain or LangGraph)
• Experience with data visualisation, particularly libraries or tools for rendering network graphs or complex data flows (bonus)
• Familiarity with cloud technologies such as AWS Serverless, API Gateway, Kubernetes, or Terraform (bonus)
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools like Datadog (bonus)
• Interest or experience in cryptocurrency and blockchain technology (bonus)

Benefits

• Hybrid working and the option to work from almost anywhere for up to 90 days per year
• £500 Remote working budget to set up your home office space
• $1,000 Learning & Development budget
• 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
• An extra day for your birthday
• Enhanced parental leave: 16 weeks fully-paid leave
• Private Health Insurance (Vitality)
• Full access to Spill Mental Health Support
• Life Assurance: 4 times your salary to your beneficiaries
• Cycle to Work Scheme