Team Leader - Senior Software Engineer

Overview

Our Mission

At Omnea, we are 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 have 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 is a $7B+ untapped market, and our traction reflects the scale of the opportunity: we have 10x'd ARR to double-digit millions in 18 months and are trusted by global enterprises like Spotify, MongoDB, Monzo, and Albertsons. We are now the 4th fastest growing startup in Europe.

Our team previously scaled Tessian (cybersecurity tech, backed by Sequoia, Balderton, Accel, acquired post-Series C), and our team includes ex-founders operators who have grown unicorns, shipped world-class products, and executed at the highest levels. You will work alongside leaders like Ben, Abs, Sabrina, and Rebe.

About the Role

As a Team Lead at Omnea, you are accountable for what your team works on and what it delivers. You sit at the intersection of engineering execution, product strategy, and customer impact. This role can be held by an L3 or L4 engineer and blends hands-on technical contribution with leadership. You own outcomes, not just output: turning ambiguous problem spaces into clear, prioritised plans, ensuring fast and high-quality delivery, and keeping the team motivated and focused.

You will work very closely with Product, Sales, and Customer teams to ensure the work your team delivers directly supports company-level goals and responds quickly to customer feedback.

What you will do

• Team & delivery ownership

• Own the delivery and quality of all projects executed by your team
• Translate ambiguous or high-level company goals into a clear, prioritised roadmap
• Ensure the team ships quickly, reliably, and to a high technical standard
• Proactively identify delivery risks and resolve them before they impact customers

• Partner closely with Product to define what the team should build and why
• Ensure work is clearly tied back to customer value and company-level metrics
• Respond quickly to customer feedback in collaboration with Sales and Customer teams
• Balance short-term delivery with long-term technical health

• Define and own the metrics that measure your team's success
• Use data to guide prioritisation, improve delivery speed, and raise quality
• Hold yourself and the team accountable for outcomes

• Run regular 1:1s with all engineers on the team, regardless of formal line management
• Foster strong team morale, psychological safety, and high ownership
• Provide technical and career guidance to engineers on the team
• Work closely with an Engineering Manager (if applicable) on performance and development

• Contribute to onboarding, hiring, and performance processes
• Support cross-team initiatives that raise the bar for engineering at Omnea
• Act as a role model for Omnea's engineering values and ways of working

About You

• Strong experience as a software engineer, with a track record of shipping high-quality systems
• Comfortable owning end-to-end delivery, not just individual tickets
• Able to turn unclear problem statements into structured plans
• Confident working closely with Product and non-engineering stakeholders
• Clear communicator who can align a team around priorities and trade-offs
• Passionate about building great products and great teams

Level expectations

• L3 Team Lead
• Leads a small team or well-defined problem space
• Still strongly hands-on technically
• Developing leadership skills with support from EMs and senior leaders

Why Omnea

• Direct ownership and impact on a fast-growing product
• Close collaboration across Product, Sales, and Customer teams
• High trust, low bureaucracy, and real responsibility
• Opportunity to grow into senior technical or leadership roles

At Omnea, we embrace diversity. To build a product that is loved by everyone, we are 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 is important to us that we get this together-time.
• We are commercial, ambitious and we don’t pretend otherwise! We are 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 sometimes use AI note-takers to help us transcribe interview notes, so we can be more present in your interview. If you would like to opt out of us using automatic transcribers, please note this in the free text field in your application.

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