- Company: Get A Job.ai
- Location: London
- Salary: Pay not listed
Website Get A Job.ai
Represented by Get A Job.ai
Responsibilities
We are representing a confidential music technology organization seeking a Lead Software Engineer for their London office. In this technical leadership role, you will shape architecture, engineering standards, and technical direction for global-scale platforms supporting critical business operations.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Leading technical design and implementation of scalable software solutions for global B2B2C platforms
- Driving architecture decisions across distributed systems, APIs, data pipelines, and platform services
- Partnering with Product, Operations, and stakeholder teams to translate complex business requirements into technical solutions
- Writing clean, maintainable, well-tested code while establishing engineering best practices
- Leading technical design sessions, architecture reviews, and modernization initiatives
- Designing resilient services and integrations with internal and third-party platforms
- Championing application reliability, performance, observability, and operational excellence
- Mentoring engineers through technical coaching, code reviews, and architectural guidance
- Identifying technical debt and leading initiatives to improve scalability, maintainability, and developer productivity
- Troubleshooting complex production issues and driving root cause analysis across distributed systems
- Collaborating with engineering leadership to define long-term technical roadmaps
What We're Looking For
Required qualifications:
- 10+ years of software engineering experience
- Experience implementing distributed systems
- Strong experience with Python and JavaScript
- Experience building frontend applications using TypeScript and React
- Experience with various database technologies and query languages (Snowflake, MySQL, Neo4j, Kafka, OpenSearch)
- Experience designing microservices and APIs using REST, HTTP, and OAuth
- Comfortable with AWS cloud technologies
- Experience using log analysis and monitoring tools to investigate production issues
- Experience writing unit, integration, and automated tests
- Experience working within Agile development teams
- Excellent communication skills with ability to influence engineering and business stakeholders
- Passion for solving complex technical problems and mentoring engineers
Ideal candidate attributes:
- Deep understanding of software architecture, domain modeling, and scalable system design
- Experience designing data models and optimizing schemas for complex business domains
- Experience working with large datasets and high-volume systems
- Ability to mobilize engineering teams around a technical vision and lead execution across multiple initiatives
- Track record of establishing engineering best practices, coding standards, and development processes
- Strong systems-thinking mindset balancing immediate needs against long-term platform investments
- Demonstrated experience leading complex technical initiatives without direct people management responsibility
- Passionate about mentoring engineers and fostering technical excellence
- Interest in music and technology
Work arrangement: Hybrid in London (3 days office / 2 days remote)
How We Work With You
Our talent team at Get A Job.ai will guide you through the entire recruitment process. When you apply through our platform, one of our experienced recruiters will screen your application and arrange an initial conversation to understand your background and career goals. If there's a strong match, we will submit your profile to our client for consideration and coordinate all subsequent interview stages.
Please apply exclusively through Get A Job.ai. Do not attempt to contact the client directly, as this may disqualify your application.
Pay
Compensation details will be discussed during the screening process with our recruiting team.
Equal Employment Opportunity: Get A Job.ai is committed to fostering an inclusive recruitment process. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds and work with clients who share our commitment to diversity and equal opportunity employment.
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A recruiter will review your profile and submit you to the client. Do not contact the client directly.
Apply through Get A Job.ai. A recruiter will review your profile and submit you. Do not contact the client directly.
Apply through Get A Job.ai. A recruiter will review your profile and submit you.
Terms used in this posting
- hybrid
- A work arrangement combining both in-office and remote/at-home work, typically on a set schedule.
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Traits that fit this role
- Innovation
- Adaptability
- Achievement Orientation
- Intellectual Curiosity
- Attention to Detail
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Listing facts
- Role Lead Software Engineer
- Employer Get A Job.ai
- Location London
- Type Full Time
- Pay (from listing) Pay not listed
- Posted September 17, 2026
- Apply by October 17, 2026
- Overview Full job description on this page (513 words)
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- Confer with systems analysts, engineers, programmers and others to design systems and to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements and interfaces.
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