Lead Software Engineer – Industrial Sustainability Reporting Platform

Company: IFS
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Location: London
Job Description:

Overview

In this role, you will architect and build scalable, API-first platforms and features across front-end and back-end. You will own reliability, DevOps practices, and production readiness while guiding technical trade-offs. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to solve sustainability-focused problems at scale, shaping a modular, event-driven architecture. This is an opportunity to drive tangible impact in industrial decarbonization through AI-enabled enterprise software.

Responsibilities

  • Lead design, architecture, and implementation of scalable APIs, services, and accessible UIs
  • Deliver AI-native features spanning carbon accounting, ESG data collection, and sustainability planning
  • Evolve platform to modular, event-driven, API-first components
  • Provide technical direction on scalability, maintainability, performance, and product impact
  • Own reliability and operations including telemetry, SLOs, incident response, and continuous improvement
  • Champion DevOps practices: CI/CD, deployment automation, monitoring, and on-call rotations
  • Collaborate with Platform Engineers in a lean DevOps model and assume application-level DevOps scope
  • Mentor engineers, promote best practices, and raise technical standards
  • Ensure code quality, documentation, automated testing, performance, security, and maintainability
  • Own the quality of deliverables through test automation and production readiness
  • Partner with Product Management, Design, AI, Platform Engineering and other teams on discovery, trade-offs, and delivery
  • Apply a product- and customer-led mindset to solving pain points with scalable engineering solutions
  • Identify technical risks, performance bottlenecks, and opportunities to improve architecture and ways of working

Key requirements

  • Strong full-stack software engineering experience across front-end and back-end
  • Solid experience with modern front-end technologies, notably React or similar
  • Back-end experience, ideally GoLang or equivalent
  • Experience designing and building scalable APIs and cloud-native applications
  • Strong DevOps understanding: CI/CD, deployment, monitoring, automation, incident response
  • Experience delivering secure, observable, high-quality production software
  • Focus on code quality, automated testing, documentation, performance, and maintainability
  • Ability to lead technical design discussions and influence architectural decisions
  • Effective cross-team collaboration and communication
  • Ownership mindset with end-to-end accountability
  • strong collaboration
  • effective communication
  • leadership and mentorship
  • React or modern frontend frameworks
  • GoLang or similar back-end language
  • designing scalable APIs and cloud-native apps

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Posted: October 10th, 2026