Lead Software Engineer - London Based

We are looking for an experienced Lead Software Engineer to drive the development of our next-generation Copyright Data Management (CDM) platform. You''ll provide technical leadership for a strategically important programme, working closely with engineering and product teams across our UK and US offices to deliver scalable, reliable software.

What you will do

• Own the technical delivery of the CDM initiative, working closely with the Director of Software Engineering and other engineering leaders.
• Work closely with Product, Engineering and stakeholders across the UK and US to define priorities and execution plans.
• Remain hands-on by designing, implementing and reviewing production code for key platform components.
• Identify technical risks and drive pragmatic solutions.
• Guide architectural decisions and engineering best practices.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, design discussions and pairing.
• Promote the effective use of AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity and software quality.

Essential skills

• Strong commercial experience developing production systems in Go.
• Experience designing and building distributed systems using technologies such as PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch.
• Strong experience building and operating cloud-native applications on AWS, including EKS, RDS, EC2, CloudWatch and Kinesis.
• Experience with Kubernetes and containerised deployments.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD, observability and modern software delivery practices.

Desirable skills

• Experience with event-driven architectures (Kinesis, Kafka or similar).
• Experience leading technical projects.
• Previous mentoring or people management experience.
• Experience modernising legacy platforms.
• Experience collaborating with international engineering teams.

Why join us

• This is an opportunity to play a key role in modernising a business-critical platform while influencing engineering practices across an international organisation. You''ll have significant technical ownership, work closely with teams in both the UK and US, and remain hands-on while shaping the future direction of the platform.

Why join us

This is an opportunity to play a key role in modernising a business-critical platform while influencing engineering practices across an international organisation. You''ll have significant technical ownership, work closely with teams in both the UK and US, and remain hands-on while shaping the future direction of the platform.