Overview
As Engineering Team Lead in AI Labs, you will steer multiple workstreams within the MicroPOS initiative, delivering robust, scalable software while mentoring early-career engineers. You’ll shape full-stack solutions, integrate them into the Dojo ecosystem, and guide PoC explorations with emerging tooling. This role blends hands-on architecture with people leadership in a dynamic, exploratory environment. You’ll partner with product and tech leadership to align technical work with business goals, driving impact and continuous improvement.
Responsibilities
- Lead system architecture and design to ensure scalability and maintainability
- Own the software delivery lifecycle with best practices, code reviews, and CI/CD pipelines
- Mentor and develop engineers, fostering an inclusive culture and leadership potential
- Collaborate with product, tech management, and stakeholders to achieve objectives with predictability
- Drive PoC initiatives to explore new tools and agentic frameworks, informing architecture decisions
- Align technical efforts with the product roadmap and optimize system performance
Key requirements
- Proven leadership experience managing people and building inclusive teams
- Strong senior software engineering background across client and server-side tech (Python, .NET, Java)
- Experience with frontend (React, TypeScript) and modern agile practices
- Solid knowledge of microservices, event-driven systems, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure (GCP preferred)
- Interest in or experience with agentic frameworks (Google ADK, Akka, LangGraph)
- Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills
- ownership and accountability
- curiosity and willingness to learn
- humility and honesty
- Python
- .NET
- Java
Senior Engineering Team Lead in London employer: PaymentSense
At Dojo, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer that values our people as our greatest asset. With an office-first culture that encourages collaboration and innovation, our employees enjoy a dynamic work environment designed for both focus and creativity. We offer robust growth opportunities, a commitment to diversity and inclusion, and the chance to be part of a game-changing team in the payments industry, all while working in vibrant office spaces across Europe.
