Engineering Lead

Flashpoint is looking for an Engineering Lead II to take technical ownership of Echosec, Strategic Entity Data and Identify. This team is small, senior, and productive: it ships fast, and it does it across a Laravel platform, a Python AI service, and a data pipeline that ingests some of the most sensitive breach and leak data in the industry. The role is the engineering half of a partnership with a Product Manager, accountable for the technical direction that partnership depends on.

Responsibilities

Own the technical direction of three product surfaces, Echosec, SED and Identify, and the architecture that connects them; Lead the Echosec platform, a mature Laravel application running on Kubernetes; Take the AI layer further, including natural-language search, summarisation and agentic reporting over threat data; Own the Strategic Entity Data API and ingestion pipeline, including architectural decisions on cost, scale and data quality; Partner directly with the Product Manager and other engineering teams across Flashpoint; Grow a team of senior engineers and own their career paths, promotions and performance; Represent the team in KPI reviews, commitment reviews, and cross-team architecture forums

Requirements

Have led a team of five to eight engineers that owned a customer-facing product end to end, accountable for the roadmap, architecture and on-call rotation; Run production workloads on AWS, GCP, or Azure; Have inherited a mature application, resisted rewriting it, and made it measurably safer to change; Owned a quarterly commitment cycle end to end, including scoping work, publishing dates, and raising flags early; Treat growth and retention as part of the job; Have been close enough to the code to have credibility with the team, and disciplined enough not to become the bottleneck; Experience managing engineers as their direct manager, including performance conversations, career development, promotion advocacy, and hiring; Production experience with a mature server-side web application at scale, PHP and Laravel specifically, or comparable depth in another framework with a genuine willingness to work in this one; Hands-on experience running services on Kubernetes with managed Postgres and Redis in a public cloud; Experience owning production reliability: on-call rotations, incident command, post-incident review, and closing the actions that come out of them

Benefits

Target bonus; Health and wellness perks, including gym reimbursements; Expensed lunches; Company-funded virtual events, book clubs, happy hours, committees and local team meetups; Career growth with regular one-on-ones, performance reviews, learning and development opportunities, and formalized career paths