Full-Stack Senior Software Engineer in London

Location: London Area

Employment: Full time

Location Type: Remote

Department: Engineering

Deadline to Apply: November 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM EST

Join Civic Marketplace as Our Foundational Engineering Leader!

Are you passionate about technology's power to drive meaningful impact in communities? At Civic Marketplace, we're reimagining how local governments procure and deliver essential services, building the most intuitive and efficient procurement platform of the future.

Why Civic Marketplace?

We're a mission-driven startup on a journey to transform the way local governments operate—breaking down barriers, optimizing processes, and ultimately improving outcomes for residents. If you thrive on startup hustle and want to be part of a purpose-led team making real change, this opportunity is for you.

Who We're Looking For:

We're seeking our first engineering hire—a dynamic technical leader who is ready to own our technology from end to end. You'll drive our technical roadmap, manage and elevate our codebase, and build a high-performing team to meet our ambitious goals. You'll be a cornerstone of our growing organization, with the freedom to shape our tech stack and strategy.

About the role:

• You drive great execution and are full-stack, comfortable in both leading and 'owning' code end to end.
• You will be our full-time lead engineer hire.
• You work with teams to enable execution including implementing appropriate processes, setting appropriate expectations, managing risks, managing resource allocation, and removing blockers.
• You develop a quality playbook for your teams and area(s) of ownership, including standards for pull requests, code reviews, testing, and monitoring.
• You are a direct contributor and don't shirk away from coding, and also happy to delegate and hire where appropriate.
• You ensure the team owns the operation of data, systems, and apps in larger production.
• You drive resolution of critical issues, root cause analysis-driven actions.
• You drive hiring, motivation, growth with everyone in your team.
• You develop and calibrate a thorough understanding of employees' motivations, strengths, and growth opportunities.
• You provide constant, real-time feedback to the team.
• You create a self-managing team.
• You ensure the team continuously improves.
• You establish goals and OKRs for the team and/or technical scope, set up processes to ensure we continually track and learn, and drive priorities to improve.
• You orchestrate improvement using root cause analyses, postmortems/retrospectives, and other processes.
• You cultivate a great culture where team members can do their best work.
• You promote ownership and accountability, high I/O, learning and teaching, good decision making, and a push for very high standards.
• You build relationships and are open to working with contractors and hiring where needed.
• You promote transparency through regular updates on priorities and status.
• You ensure the team has clear goals, road-maps, and priorities that are well informed by and socialized with partners and peers across the organization.
• You work end-to-end to ensure we minimize technical and functionality gaps between teams.

About You:

• You act with and teach appropriate urgency when the situation calls for it.
• You feel personally accountable and responsible.
• You look for problems and inefficiencies and find elegant solutions before they become major issues.
• You are high I/O, emotionally mature, and humble.
• You are a good, deep listener.
• You care about being effective over being right.
• You accept feedback willingly, seeking opposing points of view.
• You are an open-minded learner.
• You live to learn new things, like staying up to date on new technologies, tools, and techniques such as AI and no-code/low-code tools.
• You are inspired by what's possible and eager to incorporate the best.
• You experiment, challenge status quo, and take appropriate risks.
• You are a rapid learner that quickly ramps on new languages, frameworks, and systems.
• You are a systems thinker: you think end-to-end about what designs and changes affect the overall service, architecture, codebase, and users.
• You understand and drive techniques for leading projects and improving productivity.
• You are experienced with a variety of growth and leadership strategies, tactics, and scenarios.
• You are empathetic, happy when helping others succeed.
• You drive and facilitate clarity when there's ambiguity in what's needed.
• You invest; you make wise, informed decisions about where you invest your time.
• You mentor employees, encouraging and guiding them in levelling up.

Experience: at least 5 or more years as a minimum.

What's in for you?

• Influence, trust and impact inside a well-funded startup that's scaling.
• Competitive salary and meaningful stock options.
• High impact role where you'll have the autonomy to develop our platform quickly and make a meaningful contribution.

A small bit about process: we’ll start with a 30-minute chat, then have a couple of conversations (one technical, one non-technical) followed by a final chat with one of our founders.

Closing date – March 31st, 2025.

Please Note: We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.