SENIOR Software Engineer Data, Product and Technology · Shoreditch

Overview

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER

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Based in the heart of Shoreditch, we are a multi-platform production company, social media agency, and digital media network who are currently on a quest to find a Senior Software Engineer (Software Architect) to join our Data, Tech & Product team - Is this your next opportunity?

We are looking for a hands-on Senior Software Engineer to define, design, and help deliver a next-generation video content automation, scheduling and distribution platform used across our portfolio of 130+ You Tube channels. As the Senior Software Engineer, you will split your time between technical leadership (50%) — architecture, standards, planning, direction — and contributing code (50%) across backend services, automations, pipelines, and UI components.

This will include working closely with the Product Owner, end-users, and stakeholders across the business to translate complex operational workflows into scalable technical solutions. You will also directly manage a blend of onshore and offshore developers, ensuring clarity of tasks, code quality, and delivery velocity.

This is a strategic and highly technical role with real ownership and visible impact on the operations of the company. The ideal candidate will demonstrate a range of different skill sets to compliment this as we move through our strategic technology roadmap, such as hands-on engineering, stakeholder engagement, leadership experience, and delivery management.

We are proud to be an award winning, B Corp Certified workplace with employee wellbeing at the heart of everything we do. We offer hybrid and flexi-time working, mental health and wellbeing programmes, enhanced gender neutral parental leave, interest free financial support and a digital nomad policy that allows you to work from abroad in two one week blocks a year.

Plus all the usuals such as pension contributions, annual leave and office perks like free lunches, socials, and health treatments!

Architecture & Technical Direction

• Defining the system architecture for our products, focusing on our scheduling and automation platform, spanning backend services, data pipelines, APIs, and UI layers.

• Setting technical standards for code quality, security, observability, CI/CD, and cloud deployment.

• Building and maintaining the architectural roadmap, ensuring scalability to >500 video uploads/week and multi-channel automation workflows.

• Driving decisions on storage models, event flows, orchestration, API boundaries, and data schemas.

• Owning the technical implementation strategy for GCP-based components (Big Query, Firestore, Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Composer/Airflow).

• Designing frameworks for automation, title processing, workflow orchestration, and validation pipelines.

Hands-On Engineering

• Contributing production-grade code in Python, Type Script/React, and GCP environments.

• Building backend services (Cloud Run / Cloud Functions), data pipelines, scheduling engines, and workflow automations.

• Implementing UI components in React/Next.js for dashboards, scheduling calendars, and admin tooling.

• Optimising end-to-end performance of scheduling algorithms, metadata extraction flows, and content management workflows.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Collaborating with channel managers, editors, rights teams, and operations stakeholders to understand real-world constraints.

• Participating in user interviews and feedback loops to validate product assumptions.

• Communicating technical trade-offs and prioritisation clearly to non-technical audiences.

• Supporting PM in roadmap planning, phased delivery, and discovery cycles.

Leadership & Delivery Management

• Working with the Director of Data, Tech & Product (DTP) and Partnerships Manager to define the backlog, scope projects, and break work into clear deliverables.

• Leading daily engineering operations across onshore and offshore teams, ensuring productivity and alignment.

• Reviewing and approving architecture proposals, pull requests, and system changes.

• Mentoring mid-level developers, setting standards, and supporting their technical growth.

• Helping to coordinate QA and release…