Engineering Lead

Engineering Lead

Attio

Attio is the CRM built for the AI era. Designed for the most ambitious go-to-market teams, it gives companies the power to understand every customer, automate at scale, and build their go-to-market motion exactly as they need. We've raised $116M from some of the world's best investors: GV (Google Ventures), Redpoint, Balderton, Point Nine, and 01A. We hire builders who thrive on complex technical challenges, hold themselves to a high bar, and genuinely care about delighting the people who use what they build. The team here brings sharp judgement, real craft, and the drive to do exceptional work. We're obsessed about the details and energized by the frontier. If you want to do the best work of your career, this is the right place. ABOUT THE ROLE Our Engineering team tackles the toughest challenges, so our users never have to. Real-time infrastructure, AI-native architecture, and a frontend that feels effortless - all powered by a team that moves fast, thinks rigorously, and holds an exceptionally high bar for quality. We’re looking for Engineering Leads who are passionate about building incredible teams that will push boundaries, obsess over details, and reinvent how millions of people work. This is a hands-on role which combines individual technical contribution with leadership of a small, focused team of engineers. WHAT YOU'LL DO * Contribute across the stack, bringing to bear your high calibre technical expertise in either Backend (Typescript/Node.js/Go/GCP) or Frontend (React), to deliver features end-to-end to our customers. * Recruit and develop a top-class team of engineers that own a critical area of Attio’s product. * Design and evolve our technical architecture to support Attio’s rapidly increasing scale. * Lead projects and make product decisions based on interactions with customers. * Represent Attio’s Product & Engineering values both internally and externally. WHAT YOU'LL BRING * Experience designing secure, scalable, reliable backend systems. * Excellent knowledge of modern cloud architectures (either GCP or AWS). * Demonstrable deep expertise with Node.js/Typescript or Go for backend development, or React for frontend development. * Ability to communicate technical ideas to the wider team and influence decisions. * A desire and aptitude for leading and growing a great engineering team. WHAT WE OFFER * Competitive salary of £120,000 to £150,000 * Equity in an early-stage tech company on an incredible trajectory * 25 days holiday plus local public holidays * Apple hardware * Private medical insurance through AXA * Pension contribution through Hargreaves Lansdown * Enhanced family leave * Team off-site in fun places! (We've been to Barcelona, Lisbon, Malta, and Split so far)

Engineering Lead II

9fin

About 9fin 9fin is the AI platform powering global debt markets — the world’s largest asset class at over $145 trillion. Debt markets are vast, global, and mission-critical, yet still run on fragmented data, PDFs, and manual workflows. 9fin replaces this broken infrastructure with a single platform that centralises proprietary credit data, deep analysis, and high-value workflows across global markets. Today, 9fin powers teams at 300+ blue-chip institutions worldwide, including global banks, asset managers, private equity firms, law firms, and advisors. The business is scaling at exceptional speed, with rapid expansion in the US and best-in-class retention driven by deep workflow adoption. We’re at a defining inflection point. With proven product-market fit and strong, global market pull, 9fin is accelerating toward becoming the category-defining platform for debt markets worldwide. THE OPPORTUNITY We are seeking an Engineering Lead II to lead three customer-facing engineering teams across Onboarding & Activation, Mobile, and Office Productivity. These teams are responsible for how customers discover, adopt, access, and engage with 9fin across multiple surfaces and workflows. Together they own critical parts of the customer journey including onboarding, permissions and entitlements, activation, notifications, discovery, mobile experiences, and productivity tooling such as Microsoft Office integrations. You will lead multiple engineering pods (circa 7 engineers total), each with its own product area, roadmap, and technical challenges, while ensuring they operate as a connected ecosystem rather than independent products. Success in this role requires strong organisational leadership, technical depth, and the ability to identify opportunities for shared platforms, reusable services, and common architectural patterns across teams. This role is ideal for a highly technical engineering leader who enjoys operating across multiple domains, helping teams solve complex architectural challenges, and creating alignment between product strategy, customer needs, and engineering execution. WHAT YOU'LL WORK ON Every day is different, but here's a flavour of the kinds of challenges you'll be tackling: * Build and lead a high-performing team responsible for 9fin's mobile applications, mobile platform services, and productivity tooling. * Coach and develop engineers across multiple disciplines, helping them grow their technical expertise, product thinking, and leadership skills. * Shape the technical vision and roadmap for how 9fin integrates into customer workflows beyond the core web application. * Partner with Product and Design to identify opportunities where mobile, AI, notifications, and productivity tools can create meaningful customer value. * Guide architectural decisions across mobile applications, Backend-for-Frontend services, Office integrations, and workflow automation capabilities. * Work closely with AI and Search teams to bring AI-native experiences into customer workflows, including search, recommendations, and intelligent productivity features. * Collaborate with Platform, Data, Identity, Onboarding, Activation, and Permissions teams to ensure seamless customer experiences across products. * Drive engineering excellence while maintaining a strong focus on customer outcomes, adoption, engagement, and retention. * Help establish success metrics and use product analytics, customer feedback, and business outcomes to inform prioritisation and investment decisions. * Hire, onboard, and develop exceptional engineering talent as these micro teams scale in future * Stay engaged with technical design and architecture reviews while empowering engineers to take ownership of implementation details. * Balance short-term product delivery with long-term platform investments that enable future innovation. ABOUT YOU This role will be a great fit if you: * Have experience leading high-performing product engineering teams and delivering customer-facing products at scale. * Bring a strong technical background and remain comfortable discussing architecture, system design, API integrations, and modern application development. * Have experience building or leading teams responsible for mobile applications, productivity tooling, desktop integrations, or workflow-centric products. * Understand the challenges of API-first architectures and integrating multiple platform services into cohesive customer experiences. * Have experience delivering AI-powered product experiences and understand how AI can be embedded into real user workflows. * Are deeply product-minded and can translate customer problems, business goals, and technical constraints into effective solutions. * Have experience working across multiple engineering domains and building strong partnerships with product, design, platform, AI, and data teams. * Are passionate about coaching and developing engineers, helping them grow both technically and professionally. * Use metrics, customer feedback, and business outcomes to guide decision-making and prioritisation. * Have a track record of balancing engineering quality with fast, iterative delivery. * Are comfortable operating in ambiguity and helping teams navigate evolving product and technical requirements. * Care deeply about creating products that customers rely on every day. PARTICULARLY VALUABLE EXPERIENCE * Building mobile-first or multi-surface product experiences. * Microsoft Office Add-ins, excel integrations, or other productivity tooling. * AI-native product development. * Notification-driven products and engagement systems. * Content-rich, workflow-heavy B2B SaaS products. * Financial services, market data, research, or information products. * Scaling teams through periods of rapid product and organisational growth. BENEFITS We’re a scaling start up, and we enjoy sharing our success, when the company succeeds, we always reinvest that in our people. We also offer huge amounts of responsibility, an abundance of opportunity for growth and a platform to truly excel. Financial & Insurance * Competitive Salary (our salary bands are benchmarked at the top end of the market) * Equity * Pension (your minimum contributions are 4% with 9fin matching up to 7%) * Private Medical Insurance * Paid sick leave with Income Protection for long periods of illness * Group Life Assurance * Season Ticket Loan & Cycle to Work schemes Time off * 25 holiday days per year * Local public holidays (with the ability to exchange them for alternative days) * Hybrid working model, to allow you the flexibility to decide how, where and when you do your best work * Work abroad for up to 3 months a year * 1 month paid sabbatical after 5 years of service * Enhanced parental leave & flexible working arrangements available Training & Culture * Professional learning and development budget * Quarterly team socials * Summer and Winter company social events 9fin is an equal opportunities employer At 9fin we are dedicated to building and promoting a fair and inclusive workplace where everyone can reach their full potential and truly belong. We recognize that building diverse teams enables a more creative and productive environment. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t perfectly align with the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be who we’re looking for — either for this role, or perhaps another.

Engineering Lead - Insurance (Data & AI)

Alpha FMC

Alpha Financial Markets Consulting (Alpha) is a leading global consultancy to the financial services industry. We are a boutique management consulting firm that offers the world’s top industry players a competitive edge through our expertise and industry insight. Our team is of a uniquely high calibre and by focusing across the General Insurance & Specialty value chain, we build deep knowledge and experience within our industry. We have our headquarters located the United Kingdom, as well as offices in major global financial centres across the United States, France, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Switzerland, and Asia. The Insurance team works with industry leading carriers, brokers, market bodies, ancillary businesses, and technology providers to position our clients for future success. We have a fast growing team of dedicated consultants with deep experience from working both within the industry and consulting. Successful candidates should expect a diverse range of complex and strategic engagements across the market. As we continue to expand our client base and expertise, we are looking for individuals to join our team to support our growth journey. Please see below an outline of the responsibilities of the role as well as the requirements. ROLE OVERVIEW   We are seeking an exceptional Application & Software Engineering Lead with deep Insurance domain expertise to drive the design, delivery, and evolution of our core technology platforms. This is a high-impact leadership role sitting at the intersection of engineering excellence and insurance business capability, responsible for leading cross-functional engineering teams to deliver scalable, resilient, and compliant software solutions. You will act as a trusted technology partner to the world’s largest insurance firms, translating complex insurance workflows — spanning policy administration, underwriting, claims, and regulatory compliance — into robust, modern application architectures. You will set the technical vision, champion engineering best practices, and cultivate a high-performing team culture.   KEY RESPONSIBILITIES   ENGINEERING LEADERSHIP * Lead, mentor, and grow a team of software engineers, architects, and analysts across multiple squads. * Define and uphold engineering standards, coding practices, and quality frameworks across the function. * Drive a culture of continuous improvement, psychological safety, and technical craftsmanship. * Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development conversations with direct reports. * Collaborate with Engineering Managers, Product Owners, and Delivery Leads to ensure aligned, outcome-driven delivery. APPLICATION STRATEGY & ARCHITECTURE * Own the application roadmap for core insurance platforms, including policy management, claims, underwriting, and distribution systems. * Design and govern scalable, event-driven, cloud-native architectures appropriate for the insurance technology landscape. * Lead technical design reviews, architecture decision records (ADRs), and proof-of-concept evaluations. * Assess and manage technical debt; prioritise remediation in balance with feature delivery. * Evaluate and recommend third-party insurance software (e.g. Guidewire, Duck Creek, Majesco) and integration patterns. INSURANCE DOMAIN DELIVERY * Apply specialist knowledge of insurance business processes to shape technical solutions that meet regulatory and operational requirements. * Oversee delivery of insurance-specific capabilities: policy lifecycle management, claims handling, bordereaux processing, reinsurance ceding, and premium calculation engines. * Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations including Solvency II, FCA requirements, market standards, and GDPR. * Act as a subject matter expert (SME) bridging business stakeholders and engineering teams on insurance domain requirements. DELIVERY & EXECUTION * Own end-to-end software delivery for one or more product areas; accountable for quality, timeliness, and technical integrity. * Champion Agile and DevSecOps practices; contribute to sprint planning, backlog refinement, and release governance. * Define and track engineering KPIs including lead time, deployment frequency, MTTR, and defect escape rate. * Manage stakeholder expectations and provide transparent reporting on engineering progress and risk. STAKEHOLDER & VENDOR ENGAGEMENT * Partner with Product, Actuarial, Risk, Compliance, and Operations teams to understand and shape business requirements. * Manage relationships with technology vendors and insurance software providers; lead procurement and contract negotiations where required. * Represent the engineering function in senior leadership forums, architecture boards, and client-facing engagements.   SKILLS & EXPERIENCE   ESSENTIAL * Significant experience (7+ years) in software engineering. * Demonstrable insurance domain expertise across one or more of: Specialty, London Market / Lloyds, or Reinsurance. * Strong command of modern application development: microservices, API-first design, event-driven architecture, and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP). * Proven ability to lead distributed engineering teams delivering in an Agile/SAFe environment. * Deep understanding of insurance data models, regulatory frameworks (FCA, PRA, Solvency II), and compliance requirements. * Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage technical and non-technical audiences, including C-suite stakeholders. HIGHLY DESIRABLE * Consulting experience. * Background in data engineering or analytics within an insurance context (e.g. actuarial data platforms, claims analytics). * Experience delivering large-scale digital transformation or legacy modernisation programmes in insurance. * Relevant certifications: AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect, TOGAF, or equivalent. * Exposure to AI/ML applications in insurance (e.g. fraud detection, underwriting automation, NLP for claims). TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES * Languages & Frameworks: Java, Python, .NET, or similar enterprise-grade stack; REST and GraphQL APIs. * Cloud & Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins). * Data & Integration: Kafka / event streaming, enterprise integration patterns, EDI/ACORD XML or JSON standards. * Security & Compliance: OWASP practices, data privacy engineering, secure SDLC.   WHAT WE OFFER   * Competitive base salary benchmarked to senior tech consulting market rates. * Annual performance bonus tied to individual and company outcomes. * Comprehensive benefits package including private medical insurance, life assurance, and income protection. * Hybrid working model with flexible arrangements to support work-life balance. * Generous pension scheme with enhanced employer contributions. * Continuous learning budget and access to industry conferences, certifications, and training programmes. * 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, with option to buy additional days. * Employee assistance programme and wellbeing support.