ben - Engineering Lead

• Line managing 4-8 product engineers in a cross-functional squad, supporting their growth through clear expectations, regular feedback and objective performance evaluation • Staying hands-on in the code along your team, contributing to strategic, high-impact work and leading by example on quality, pace and engineering craft • Providing technical guidance on complex B2B SaaS products and features across the HR, employee benefits, and fintech domains • Partnering closely with Product and Design to shape solutions, challenge complexity and make smart trade-offs on scope & delivery • Owning squad delivery end-to-end, helping the team deliver on commitments and ship with consistency & quality • Mentoring engineers on technical problem-solving, system design and career development • Driving the adoption of AI tooling and agentic development workflows across the squad and wider engineering org in practical thoughtful ways • Building a high-performing, accountable team culture where engineers are supported, stretched and recognised for great work • Experience line managing engineers and helping them grow into stronger, more confident product engineers • Senior-level expertise in at least some areas of our stack: Python, Django, TypeScript, React, React Native, Celery or Temporal • A track record of shipping high-quality products in B2B SaaS environments • A real enthusiasm for AI tooling and agentic development workflows, with a desire to keep pushing adoption further • The ability to move comfortably between coding, coaching, technical decision-making and stakeholder conversations • Experience working in product engineering environments, ideally using Shape Up or similar product development processes • A high bar for accountability, ownership and follow-through for both yourself and your team • Want a pure people-management role or a pure IC role: this is a player-coach position that requires both • Need a lot of certainty before you can move: we work with context, judgement and ownership, not perfect information • You'd rather refine existing workflows than reimagine them, and AI-assisted or agentic development feel like friction rather than opportunity. • Avoid accountability conversations or find it difficult to hold a high bar on commitments and performance • Prefer highly structured environments with rigid processes and clearly defined boundaries • Are uncomfortable with ambiguity and taking the lead on figuring things out • Prefer maintaining the status quo over improving systems, habits and team effectiveness • Prefer a slow or highly predictable pace we move quickly and value action • Feel uncomfortable owning projects end-to-end and being accountable for outcomes • Prefer maintaining the status quo we challenge assumptions and improve constantly • Want a heavily structured environment we’re still building processes as we grow • Struggle with ambiguity or prefer prescriptive direction you’ll get context, but you’ll need to figure things out • Wait for others to take initiative this is a proactive, high-performance team