Lead Engineer
Added: 25/06/2025Save My Exams
TELECOMMUTE, London, England, United Kingdom
🕒 Full-time
💷 £90,000 - £110,000 per year
🤗 Remote
🏷️ react
🏷️ next.js
🏷️ typescript
🏷️ jest
🏷️ cloud
🏷️ aws
🏷️ google cloud
🏷️ github actions
🏷️ seo
🏷️ rust
Job description Save My Exams, a rapidly growing EdTech startup, is looking for a Lead Engineer to join their Acquisition Squad and drive organic user growth. They are a customer-obsessed, remote-first company with over 4 million monthly users. The role involves shipping features, managing engineers, and contributing to the technical architecture.
Responsibilities
- Ship and own impactful features and experiments to drive organic traffic, SEO, and user growth.
- Manage and mentor at least one engineer.
- Collaborate with engineering leads to define technical architecture and strategy.
- Improve the existing codebase and maintain best practices.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to solve problems.
- Participate in code reviews.
- Write and maintain tests.
Requirements
- Strong experience developing and operating web applications with frontend and backend technologies.
- Experience managing people.
- Excellent communication skills.
- User-centric approach and ownership of product and code.
- Understanding of non-functional requirements (accessibility, performance, testing, security).
- Experience with Git and GitHub.
Benefits
- Competitive salary: £90,000 - £110,000 per year
- 36 days of annual leave (including bank holidays)
- 4-week paid sabbatical after 3 years of work
- Share Options
- Bonus scheme
- Private medical & life insurance
- £500 annual learning & development budget
- Enhanced maternity & paternity leave
- Company pension scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Equipment budget
- Flexible working hours and remote working
- Weekly virtual fitness classes and company get-togethers
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