Engineering Lead in London

A BIT ABOUT the company At the company we do insurance very differently. We're nearing 1 billion connected, insured miles. Meaning our real-time, data-driven approach enables us to price connected vehicle insurance and assess risk better than ever before, giving fleet owners the insights they need to improve safety. We don’t just pay claims; we help our customers prevent them. We now insure hundreds of fleets in the UK, including the likes of Amazon, DPD, Uber and Bolt. We've now raised over £50M and our goal is to become the leading insurance company for connected and autonomous vehicles, and we're building a world-class team to help us get there.

THE ROLE Engineering Lead for the Acquisition team. You'll work closely with the PM to lead the team toward its goals, owning delivery, operational reliability and developer experience. You’ll ship production code and provide technical coaching and leadership to the engineers around you, not line management.

WHAT WE THINK IS MOST EXCITING ABOUT THE ROLE:

• Lead a team building products that directly drive the company's growth
• Own delivery and technical quality for the Acquisition team, working hand in hand with the PM to ship features that directly impact how fleets find and choose the company.
• Write high-quality, well-tested TypeScript and own end-to-end delivery to production
• Partner with product to drive impact
• Work closely with the PM, the Engineering Leadership Team and stakeholders to translate business goals into clear technical scope, success metrics and delivery plans.
• Grow engineers around you
• Lead by example through code, design discussions and pairing. Coach and mentor engineers across the team to raise standards and share ownership of technical direction.
• Shape how the team works, not just what it builds
• Drive improvements to developer experience, CI/CD, observability and release practices that make the whole team faster and more confident.
• Make pragmatic trade-offs that balance reliability, performance and cost across AWS services.

A LITTLE MORE ON WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING:

As an Engineering Lead at the company you'll own delivery and technical direction for the Acquisition team, co‑leading with the PM to ship products that directly drive growth, while raising the bar for the engineers around you.

• API-Driven Development: Integrate with and contribute to the development of RESTful APIs exposed via API Gateway.
• Serverless & Cloud Infrastructure: Use your AWS experience (Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, EventBridge, DynamoDB, S3, CloudWatch) to support and extend the Acquisition team's services and pipelines. Work with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or CDK for provisioning and managing cloud resources.
• Collaboration & Agile Delivery: Co‑own the team's success with the PM, jointly leading projects from scoping and planning through to delivery and measuring impact. Give engineers the space and ownership to lead projects themselves, asking the right questions to challenge their thinking and help them land on the right solution.
• Code Quality & Technical Standards: Deliver high-quality, well-tested code and act as a force‑multiplier, raising standards through code reviews, pairing and design discussions. Champion practical testing, type-safe APIs and pragmatic patterns that shape long-term technical direction across the team.

Working closely with your PM, you’ll bring clarity to complex problems and help define sharply scoped, impactful deliverables. Your success won't be measured by your own output alone, but by the output, quality and growth of the whole team around you.

WHAT YOU’ll BRING TO the company:

ESSENTIAL

• Proven ability to co‑lead a team alongside a PM, taking joint ownership of delivery, quality and outcomes, not just your own output.
• Strong hands‑on engineering ability; comfortable shipping high-quality, well-tested TypeScript in production and holding the team to the same standard.
• Significant experience with AWS and modern serverless (Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, EventBridge, DynamoDB, S3, CloudWatch) or other cloud platforms.
• A pragmatic approach to technical decisions, balancing reliability, observability, performance and cost, and bringing engineers along on the reasoning.
• Track record of raising engineering standards as a force‑multiplier, through code reviews, pairing, design discussions and shaping long-term technical direction.
• Strong communication skills; able to represent the team upwards and translate business goals into clear technical scope and delivery plans.
• Experience improving developer experience, CI/CD, release practices and delivery cadence across a team.

PREFERABLE

• Experience aligning technical direction beyond your immediate team, working with senior stakeholders and other leads to shape how engineering works at a broader level.
• Familiarity with infrastructure‑as‑code tools like Terraform or CDK, with a track record of improving operational resilience through observability, runbooks and automated recovery.
• Practical experience designing event-driven, distributed systems and navigating the trade-offs that come with eventual consistency at scale.
• Background in a fast-moving, product-led environment where commercial impact drives decisions and adapting quickly is part of the job.
• A track record of creating the conditions for engineers to step up, not just mentoring but actively giving ownership and space to grow.

WHAT WE OFFER (in addition to a competitive salary)

• 25 days of holiday (+ Bank Holidays)
• Workplace Pension
• Private Medical Insurance (including Optical & Mental Health support options)
• Various Salary Sacrifice Schemes - Workplace Nursery, Holiday Purchase, Tech, Gym, Cycle to Work, Electric Vehicle, Private Medical Insurance for families
• Enhanced Parental Leave and Pay
• £1,000 toward relevant professional qualifications
• £500 per annum towards learning and development
• 3 days paid leave for L&D purposes

At the company, we typically follow a hybrid working model involving a minimum of 3 days per week spent in the office, which is based in Central London, a few minutes walk from Moorgate and Liverpool Street.