Senior Engineering Team Lead

Company: PaymentSense
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Location: London
Job Description:

Overview

As Engineering Team Lead in AI Labs, you will steer multiple workstreams within the MicroPOS initiative, delivering robust, scalable software while mentoring early-career engineers. You’ll shape full-stack solutions, integrate them into the Dojo ecosystem, and guide PoC explorations with emerging tooling. This role blends hands-on architecture with people leadership in a dynamic, exploratory environment. You’ll partner with product and tech leadership to align technical work with business goals, driving impact and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

  • Lead system architecture and design to ensure scalability and maintainability
  • Own the software delivery lifecycle with best practices, code reviews, and CI/CD pipelines
  • Mentor and develop engineers, fostering an inclusive culture and leadership potential
  • Collaborate with product, tech management, and stakeholders to achieve objectives with predictability
  • Drive PoC initiatives to explore new tools and agentic frameworks, informing architecture decisions
  • Align technical efforts with the product roadmap and optimize system performance

Key requirements

  • Proven leadership experience managing people and building inclusive teams
  • Strong senior software engineering background across client and server-side tech (Python, .NET, Java)
  • Experience with frontend (React, TypeScript) and modern agile practices
  • Solid knowledge of microservices, event-driven systems, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure (GCP preferred)
  • Interest in or experience with agentic frameworks (Google ADK, Akka, LangGraph)
  • Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills
  • ownership and accountability
  • curiosity and willingness to learn
  • humility and honesty
  • Python
  • .NET
  • Java

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Posted: October 2nd, 2026