Lead Engineer

Added: 25/06/2025
💼 Save 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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