Senior Software Engineer Lead

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to be the Tech Lead for Uncheck, our accounting disclosure product, and lead its planning and delivery as it scales across customers and markets. You'll own the technical plan and sequencing, working with product and customers, and make sure it is delivered well and on time, while staying hands-on in the code. Uncheck automates the checking of accounting disclosures. It reviews financial statements against the accounting standards and regulations that apply to them, and shows the evidence behind each finding. It is live in production at enterprise scale, and we are expanding it into new regions and markets.

Responsibilities

Own the technical plan for Uncheck and lead delivery against the commitments made to customers; Build software as a hands-on member of the team, writing production code and reviewing others' work, and make technical decisions together with the team; Lead how the team builds with AI agents, including how agent-written code is reviewed, tested and shipped safely, and measure what it does for delivery; Make sure Uncheck runs reliably and securely in the cloud as it scales to new customers and regions; Lead technical conversations with customers' IT, security and architecture teams, from first evaluation through to live use; Work with product and research colleagues to turn new capabilities and customer feedback into clear priorities; Mentor engineers across the team

Requirements

Work AI-first, with agents writing a large share of your code and firm views on how a team should review and test that work; Have led delivery for a team of 4 to 8 engineers, shipping to enterprise customers on time and to a high standard; Have mentored engineers and helped them grow; Communicate clearly with customers and non-engineers, and be comfortable leading technical conversations with enterprise teams; Have strong back-end experience in any language, including agent-written code, and be able to make sound technical decisions; Have owned production cloud services, ideally on AWS, in a team with strong engineering practice: code review, automated testing, CI/CD and on-call; Understand what enterprise security and compliance teams expect

Nice to have

Experience shipping AI-powered products or features to customers, and making their output reliable at scale; Experience with Python, which the back end is written in; Experience in a regulated industry, such as financial or professional services, legal, insurance or healthcare; Experience taking a product into new regions; DevOps, infrastructure and SRE experience, such as infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines and observability

Benefits

Hybrid working policy, with three days a week as the expectation at the Central London office; Office in Bloomsbury, five minutes from Tottenham Court Road and Holborn stations; Free team lunches every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday; Optional social and extra-curricular activities throughout the year; Share options; Private health insurance with Bupa; Juno rewards, earning points on everyday purchases