Engineering Team Leader
🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 24 March 2026
LOCATION
Dundee
TYPE
Full-time
LEVEL
Mid-Senior level
CATEGORY
Technology
This role is not offered with visa sponsorship, though the employer is a licensed UK sponsor
SKILLS
Python
Rust
Node.js
JavaScript
Typescript
SQL
Cloud Services
CI/CD
FULL DESCRIPTION
Engineering Team Leader
Dundee, Scotland
Responsibilities:
- Lead, mentor, motivate and inspire an agile team of developers.
- 50-70% hands-on, design and develop full-stack, end-to-end solutions in a scalable micro-services environment
- As a data-driven company, you will work with multiple database types (e.g. MySQL, MSSQL, Redis, Mongo) and event streaming systems (e.g. Amazon SQS, Google Pub/Sub). We want you to identify and implement improvements to data quality, reliability, performance & efficiency at the level of the whole system.
- Work autonomously and collaboratively within the team and with Product Managers, UX Designers, Customer Success, DevOps and other development TLs to implement creative and robust solutions to various product and customer challenges.
- See the full picture. Own your team’s features and code from design to production and support, including automated testing and deployment.
Requirements:
- B.Sc. (or higher) in Computer Science, or equivalent.
- Excellent knowledge of software design and scalable web architectures.
- Passion for clean, readable code and a responsive, high-performing web experience.
- 5+ years of experience developing backend services in one of Python, Rust or Node.js
- Javascript or Typescript experience with a modern framework (e.g. React, Angular)
- Experience with Cloud Services (e.g. GCP, AWS or Azure)
- Experience of automated unit-testing and CI/CD pipelines
- Knowledge of SQL database design
- Experience mentoring junior developers
- Strong leadership skills to motivate and build a winning team.
- Working in a hybrid model from the office in Dundee.
- Eligible to work in the UK (we are unable to provide sponsorship at this time).
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