Staff Technical Lead – Marketing Studio Intelligence

About This Opportunity

We are representing a confidential SaaS organization in their search for a Staff Technical Lead - Marketing Intelligence to join their growing engineering team in the United Kingdom. This role sits at the intersection of marketing technology and artificial intelligence, building systems that help marketers understand campaign performance and make data-driven decisions.

As a hands-on technical leader, you'll guide a small team of 2-3 engineers while remaining deeply involved in architecture and code. You'll work on ambitious problems across AI-powered systems, campaign analytics, and intelligent automation—partnering closely with product and UX teams to turn complex technical capabilities into valuable customer experiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead a small engineering team of 2 engineers, setting technical direction and helping the team deliver against shared product and engineering goals
• Design, build, and evolve backend services that power campaign integrations, measurement, automation, and intelligent capabilities
• Contribute production-quality Java code and work directly on the team's most critical technical challenges
• Lead technical design for integrations between marketing systems, campaign platforms, CRM data, and other core capabilities
• Build scalable systems that support campaign performance reporting, attribution, analytics, and intelligent recommendations
• Shape backend capabilities for AI-powered experiences that use campaign context, CRM data, and engagement history to generate insights and recommendations
• Break complex initiatives into clear technical plans and help engineers navigate architecture decisions, dependencies, tradeoffs, and delivery risks
• Coach and mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and day-to-day technical guidance
• Partner with product and UX to translate customer problems into technical approaches that balance speed, quality, and long-term system health
• Drive alignment across engineering teams when work spans shared services, campaign infrastructure, data systems, or platform capabilities

What We're Looking For

Required qualifications:

• Significant experience designing, building, and operating backend software systems in production environments
• Strong Java development skills and experience building production-grade backend services, plus experience with Kafka, MySQL, or comparable backend technologies
• Experience technically leading a small engineering team while remaining an active contributor to the codebase
• Proven ability coaching and mentoring engineers and helping others grow their technical skills and ownership
• Strong understanding of system design, scalability, reliability, performance, fault tolerance, testing, and observability
• Experience designing and delivering AI-powered products, agentic workflows, AI agents, recommendation systems, decisioning systems, personalization, or next-best-action experiences
• Experience building the backend orchestration, services, APIs, and feedback loops that connect AI or ML models to real customer actions and outcomes
• Experience working with complex, high-volume data and ensuring AI outputs are relevant, explainable, trustworthy, and useful to customers
• Experience defining evaluation, monitoring, and learning mechanisms to assess the quality and impact of AI-generated recommendations or insights
• Ability to partner effectively with ML and data science teams to integrate and productionize models
• Strong product judgment and customer empathy, with the ability to identify which insights will create genuine value
• Ability to communicate complex AI concepts clearly and influence product, engineering, UX, design, and business stakeholders

Nice to have:

• Direct experience with recommendation systems, decisioning, personalization, ranking, experimentation, or next-best-action products
• Experience integrating CRM, marketing, campaign, advertising, or customer data across multiple systems
• Experience in marketing technology or other domains where products help customers make data-informed decisions
• Experience with Python or another transferable backend language in addition to, or instead of, Java
• Transferable experience building customer-facing AI products in areas such as customer support, prospecting, content, advertising, or other decision-support domains

How We Work With You

Our talent team at Get A Job.ai partners with leading technology companies to connect exceptional engineering talent with opportunities that match their skills and career goals. When you apply through our platform, here's what happens:

• A dedicated recruiter from Get A Job.ai will review your application and schedule an initial screening conversation
• We'll discuss your background, technical experience, and what you're looking for in your next role
• If there's a strong match, we'll submit your profile to our client and coordinate all interview scheduling
• Throughout the process, we'll provide guidance and feedback to help you put your best foot forward
• Please do not attempt to contact the client directly—all communication should flow through Get A Job.ai to ensure a smooth process for everyone

Pay

Compensation details for this role will be discussed during the screening process with our recruiting team and will be competitive with senior technical leadership positions in the UK market.

Get A Job.ai is an equal opportunity recruiter. We work with clients and candidates regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. We're committed to fostering inclusive hiring processes and supporting diverse talent.