Engineering Lead, Backend Developer, DevOps

A BIT ABOUT FLOCK

At Flock we do insurance very differently. We're nearing 1 billion connected, insured miles.

Our real‑time, data‑driven approach enables us to price connected vehicle insurance and assess risk better than ever before, giving fleet owners the insights they need to improve safety. We don’t just pay claims; we help our customers prevent them. We now insure hundreds of fleets in the UK, including Amazon, DPD, Uber and Bolt.

We've raised over £50M and our goal is to become the leading insurance company for connected and autonomous vehicles, and we're building a world‑class team to help us get there.

We're an AI‑first business, so we want people who reach for AI by default, stay curious about what it can do, and use it to work faster and think bigger.

Engineering Lead for the Acquisition team. You'll work closely with the PM to lead the team toward its goals, owning delivery, operational reliability and developer experience. You’ll ship production code and provide technical coaching and leadership to the engineers around you, not line management.

• Lead a team building products that directly drive Flock's growth
• Own delivery and technical quality for the Acquisition team, working hand in hand with the PM to ship features that directly impact how fleets find and choose Flock.
• Write high‑quality, well‑tested Type Script and own end‑to‑end delivery to production
• Work closely with the PM, the Engineering Leadership Team and stakeholders to translate business goals into clear technical scope, success metrics and delivery plans.
• Lead by example through code, design discussions and pairing.
• Coach and mentor engineers across the team to raise standards and share ownership of technical direction.
• Drive improvements to developer experience, CI/CD, observability and release practices that make the whole team faster and more confident.
• Make pragmatic trade‑offs that balance reliability, performance and cost across AWS services.

Curious how we build the future of fleet insurance? Dive into our Product & Engineering Blog, packed with technical deep‑dives, behind‑the‑scenes stories, and real insights from the team you'd be joining.

• Own delivery and technical direction for the Acquisition team, co‑leading with the PM to ship products that directly drive growth, while raising the bar for the engineers around you.
• Integrate with and contribute to the development of RESTful APIs exposed via API Gateway.
• Use your AWS experience (Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, Event Bridge, DynamoDB, S3, Cloud Watch) to support and extend the Acquisition team's services and pipelines.
• Work with infrastructure‑as‑code tools like Terraform or CDK for provisioning and managing cloud resources.
• Co‑own the team's success with the PM, jointly leading projects from scoping and planning through to delivery and measuring impact.
• Give engineers the space and ownership to lead projects themselves, asking the right questions to challenge their thinking and help them land on the right solution.
• Deliver high‑quality, well‑tested code and act as a force‑multiplier, raising standards through code reviews, pairing and design discussions.
• Champion practical testing, type‑safe APIs and pragmatic patterns that shape long‑term technical direction across the team.

• Proven ability to co‑lead a team alongside a PM, taking joint ownership of delivery, quality and outcomes, not just your own output.
• Strong hands‑on engineering ability; comfortable shipping high‑quality, well‑tested Type Script in production and holding the team to the same standard.
• Significant experience with AWS and modern serverless (Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, Event Bridge, DynamoDB, S3, Cloud Watch) or other cloud platforms.
• A pragmatic approach to technical decisions, balancing reliability, observability, performance and cost, and bringing engineers along on the reasoning.
• Track record of raising engineering standards as a force‑multiplier, through code reviews, pairing, design discussions and shaping long‑term technical direction.
• Strong communication skills; able to represent the team upwards…