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.
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• 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.

Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco by Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:

• the individual’s skill sets, experience and training;
• licensure and certification requirements;
• office location and other geographic considerations;
• other business and organizational needs.

With that said, as required by local law, Vaco by Highspring believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses.

Additionally, submissions to this position are subject to the use of AI to perform preliminary candidate screenings, focused on ensuring minimum job requirements noted in the position are satisfied. More details about Vaco by Highspring’s use of AI can be found here (https://www.highspring.com/ai-use-notices/). Further assessment of candidates beyond this initial phase will be conducted by recruiters and hiring managers. Vaco by Highspring does not know and cannot opine on if its client’s use of AI products in hiring.