Team Leader - Staff Software Engineer

As a Team Lead, Engineering at Omnea, you will combine deep technical expertise with leadership responsibility, owning what your team builds, how work gets done, and how outcomes map to company goals. This role is ideal for an experienced Staff-level engineer who thrives on solving hard technical challenges while driving team performance and product impact.

You'll lead a team through complex technical initiatives, define strategic directions, and ensure high-quality delivery that advances Omnea's mission to scale our AI-native procurement platform. You will collaborate tightly with Product, Design, and cross-functional partners to shape what the team builds, why it matters, and how success is measured.

What you'll do

Team Leadership & Delivery Ownership

• Lead a high-performing engineering team, owning delivery outcomes, technical quality, and team velocity.
• Translate ambiguous product and technical goals into a clear, prioritised roadmap of execution.
• Ensure the team reliably ships robust, scalable software with a focus on performance, reliability, and customer value.
• Identify and mitigate risks early to keep delivery on track.

Technical Strategy & Execution

• Provide technical leadership on architecture, design, and implementation decisions across the stack.
• Set and promote standards for code quality, testing, observability, and operational excellence.
• Lead by example with deep technical contributions while coaching and enabling others.
• Partner with Product to define technical trade-offs, feasibility, and product scope.

Product & Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work closely with Product and Customer teams to align development work with company objectives and customer feedback.
• Shape product strategy through strong technical context and understanding of how engineering impacts product outcomes.
• Respond swiftly to customer issues, driving appropriate prioritisation with Sales and Customer Success.

Team Growth & Support

• Run regular 1:1s with team members to support career development, blockers, and team health, even if you aren't their direct line manager.
• Mentor engineers, fostering a culture of learning, experimentation, and ownership.
• Contribute to hiring, onboarding, retention, and performance programs that elevate team effectiveness.

Metrics & Impact

• Define, track, and own critical team metrics that demonstrate performance, quality, and impact.
• Use data and customer feedback to refine plans, prioritise work, and adjust delivery as needed., * Leads one or more cross-functional teams with significant autonomy.
• Drives strategic technical direction within their domain and influences broader engineering decisions.
• Balances deep technical contribution with high-quality software delivery and team growth., * We work Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays in-person at our offices. At this early stage of our company life-cycle it's important to us that we get this together-time, and you can read more about why we believe this is a winning move here
• We're commercial, ambitious and we don't pretend otherwise! We're actively seeking folks looking to make the most of a career-defining opportunity, with the hunger to be part of building something really impressive. You can see our values here
• We sometimes use AI note-takers to help us transcribe interview notes, so we can be more present in your interview. If you'd like to opt out of us using automatic transcribers, please note this in the free text field in your application, otherwise we'll take your application as confirmation that you're happy for us to use notetakers (whether added to video calls or in the background).

We are proud to be recognised for both our culture and product, and we are just getting started. Join us as we grow!

• Strong software engineering background with experience delivering high-impact systems at scale.
• Deep experience with full-stack development, cloud-native architectures, and product-oriented software engineering.
• Ability to break down complex technical problems and lead others through ambiguity to clarity.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with technical and non-technical partners.
• Passion for coaching and elevating teammates, improving technical practices, and scaling engineering outcomes.

Compensation Range: £95K - £125K

At Omnea, we're reinventing how enterprise businesses operate, starting with the most painful parts: procurement - where a single purchase can drag on for months, trigger 50+ emails, and pull in Finance, Legal, Security, and IT just to get something approved. We've raised $75M from Khosla Ventures, Insight Partners, and Accel to change that. Our AI-native platform connects every person, step, and system so buying is fast, safe, and efficient - one place to request, automated approvals and renewals, real-time supplier risk, and complete spend visibility. It's a $7B+ untapped market, and our traction reflects the scale of the opportunity: we've 10x'd ARR to double-digit millions in 18 months and are trusted by global enterprises like Spotify, MongoDB, Monzo, and Albertsons. We're now the 4th fastest growing startup in Europe. Our team previously scaled Tessian (cybersecurity tech, backed by Sequoia, Balderton, Accel, acquired post-Series C), and our team includes ex-founders operators who've grown unicorns, shipped world-class products, and executed at the highest levels. You'll work alongside leaders like Ben, Abs, Sabrina, and Rebe.