Lead Backend Engineer Node.js

London, Greater London | £90k - £100k per year

Lead Backend Engineer / Developer (Node.js Postgres AWS) London / WFH to £100k

Would you like to join a scale‑up technology company in an influential role where you can take ownership and see the business impact of what you do?

You could be progressing your career as a Lead Backend Engineer, working on complex systems for the core product, a financial operating system for live events which reduces queue times for customers and maximises revenue for vendors.

• Lead sprint planning and delivery, ensuring predictable, high‑quality output
• Set and enforce engineering standards and Definition of Done across all work
• Act as technical lead; design solutions, review code and drive best practices
• Own CI/CD quality gates, testing strategy and codebase improvements
• Take responsibility for production reliability, monitoring and incident response
• Drive post‑release validation and continuous improvement
• Coach and mentor engineers, supporting growth and performance
• Lead technical hiring and identify skill gaps within the team
• Ensure secure coding practices and compliance across all deliverables

Initially (first 6 months) you'll be expected to join the team in the London office 3‑4 days a week so you can get a full understanding of the product and the team, following this there's lots of flexibility including the ability to work abroad for part of the year.

• You have a strong hands‑on, backend engineering background with leadership experience
• You have expertise with Node.js combined with strong Postgre
  
  SQL database skills
• You have experience of owning delivery end‑to‑end in Agile environments
• You have a passion for code quality, reliability and team development
• You have experience of working with cloud platforms, CI/CD and modern architectures
• You have a strong appreciation of security best practices

• Salary to £100k
• Pension
• Influential role with great career progression as the company scales
• Potential equity

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