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Engineering Lead
Location
United Kingdom
Posted
7 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Engineering Lead
Vesta Software Group
• Lead on team practices, notably implementing lean/kanban across all teams, and help migrate those teams not currently in lean/kanban mode • Work with technical team leads on language, database and tooling decisions • Manage the day to day: 1:1s, blockers and delivery rhythm • Ensure all team leads are delivering against learning objectives, and run Show and Tells • Monitor delivery velocity across all squads and report to the CTO • Build and maintain automated test coverage, and set QA standards across the team • Provide SDET-level input into test architecture and automation frameworks • Own code review culture: standards, consistency and feedback quality • Work in tandem with the CTO to identify, pilot and roll out AI developer tooling across the team
Job Requirements
- SDET background or equivalent, having built automated testing frameworks, not just overseen them
- Hands-on QA automation experience: Selenium, Playwright, Cypress or comparable tooling
- Engineering management experience, having managed engineers, run 1:1s and been accountable for team delivery
- AI adoption experience: has introduced AI developer tooling (Claude, Codex or equivalent frontier model) in a team context, not just personal use
- Experience in fintech, payments, SaaS or a similarly regulated, delivery-focused environment
- Familiarity with some of the languages and databases in use at JFT (C#.NET, VB.NET, Vue.js, MongoDB, Node.js, PHP/Laravel, Postgres, MSSQL, MySQL), with the willingness and ability to ramp quickly on the rest
- Comfortable reporting directly to a CTO and delivering against the engineering vision with limited management overhead
Benefits
- 25 days annual leave plus a day for your birthday or significant celebration
- Private Health Insurance
- Life Assurance at 4x base salary
- Enhanced company pension contribution
- Personal Travel Insurance
- Access to Benefiz benefits platform and a range of opt-in benefits
- Electric/Hybrid Vehicle scheme and Cycle to Work scheme
- 10-day rolling sick plan including extended illness pay
- EAP and Mental Health First Aider support
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