Lead Backend Engineer

At Zego, we're looking for a Lead Backend Engineer to help shape the future of our platforms and services. As a Lead Engineer, you'll bring deep backend expertise driving delivery, influencing architecture, and mentoring others. You'll play a key role in evolving our microservices ecosystem and ensuring we build software that's resilient, scalable, and impactful.

Requirements

• Leading multiple engineers working in the same team or workstream and guiding their work to deliver user value and go after business opportunities.
• Design, build and own Python microservices that power our insurance platform-secure, observable, and built for scale.
• Drive architectural discussions and decisions across multiple teams, shaping the future of our backend systems.
• Champion engineering excellence: testability, reliability, scalability, and clean code.
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, designers and data analysts to deliver user and business value fast.
• Lead and coordinate the delivery of large, complex technical initiatives with clarity and impact.
• Actively coach and mentor engineers- sharing context, feedback and support to raise the bar.
• Identify problems, investigate root causes, and implement pragmatic solutions with autonomy.
• Continuously improve how we work as a team: from CI/CD pipelines to incident response and everything in between.
• Stay curious about how AI can enhance our work, adopting tools and workflows that unlock better productivity and insight.

Benefits

• Market-competitive salary
• Private medical insurance
• Company share options
• Generous holiday allowance
• Wellbeing benefits
• Annual flexible hybrid working contribution