Team Leader - Staff Software Engineer

Our Mission At Omnea, we’re reinventing how enterprise businesses operate, starting with the most painful parts: procurement – where a single purchase can drag on for months, trigger 50+ emails, and pull in Finance, Legal, Security, and IT just to get something approved. We’ve raised $75M from Khosla Ventures, Insight Partners, and Accel to change that. Our AI-native platform connects every person, step, and system so buying is fast, safe, and efficient – one place to request, automated approvals and renewals, real-time supplier risk, and complete spend visibility. It’s a $7B+ untapped market, and our traction reflects the scale of the opportunity: we’ve 10x’d ARR to double-digit millions in 18 months and are trusted by global enterprises like Spotify, MongoDB, Monzo, and Albertsons. We’re now the 4th fastest growing startup in Europe.

What we’re looking for We’re looking for an exceptional, product-minded Team Leader – Staff Software Engineer (L4) to join our engineering team and help scale Omnea through its next phase of growth. Over the next year, our team will double in size, our enterprise customer base will grow from ~100 to 200+, and revenue will triple. This is a Staff-level role with domain-level impact, combining senior technical leadership with people leadership responsibilities. You’ll own delivery for a team, coach and develop engineers, and shape architecture and product outcomes across a broader domain, while remaining hands-on where it matters most.

You should be prepared to undertake our pair-programming stage of the interview process in JavaScript or TypeScript and be assessed on that basis as if it has been your main language. This is a hands-on leadership role — we expect Team Leader – Staff engineers to lead by example through code, technical decision-making, and delivery ownership. We care more about skills than years of experience, but for calibration, we’d typically expect candidates at this level to have 8–10+ years of software engineering experience, including meaningful experience leading teams or complex technical initiatives.

What Can You Expect in our Tech team?

• Join a Skilled Team. You’ll lead and work alongside a team of experienced full-stack product engineers in one of Europe’s fastest-growing early-stage companies.
• Direct Product Impact. You’ll have significant influence over product direction and execution.
• Work with Modern Tech. Omnea is fully built on cloud-native and serverless technologies.
• End-to-end Ownership. You’ll own delivery outcomes end-to-end for a team or initiative.
• Continuous Delivery. We embrace continuous delivery to keep our systems agile, safe, and responsive.
• Tackle Scalability Challenges. As Omnea scales from tens to hundreds of enterprise customers, you’ll lead teams through significant scalability challenges.
• Collaboration & Autonomy. You’ll operate with significant autonomy, owning decisions within your domain and driving work forward.
• Customers at the Centre. Customer impact sits at the heart of everything we do.

About You You’re experienced (not a hard rule, but typically 8–10+ years) building and leading the delivery of web apps, having designed and implemented features from start to finish (full-stack, using TypeScript and ideally AWS). You focus on having a high impact. You’ve led teams or owned delivery for critical systems and initiatives, working with best-in-class tooling in AWS, IaC, observability and quality assessments. You want to discover the best ways to bring this experience to a fast-scaling startup.

Nice to haves that really stand out to us You’ve performed exceptionally at something else in the past, be it academics, sport, work etc. You’ve gone above and beyond the norm. You love engineering, it’s more than a job for you. You’ve contributed to open-source projects or worked on side-projects in your spare time just because you enjoy it.

At Omnea, we embrace diversity. To build a product that’s loved by everyone, we’re best served by a team with all sorts of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn’t quite match the full job spec! And regardless of your race, religion, colour, gender, or anything else! If you think you could be a good fit for Omnea, please reach out.

A few things to note: We work Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays in-person at our offices. At this early stage of our company life-cycle it’s important to us that we get this together-time. We’re commercial, ambitious and we don’t pretend otherwise! We’re actively seeking folks looking to make the most of a career-defining opportunity, with the hunger to be part of building something really impressive.

We are proud to be recognised for both our culture and product, and we are just getting started. Join us as we grow!