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Engineering Lead

Humaans· Engineering
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LondonFull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Engineering Lead role focusing on shaping product and technical foundations, balancing hands-on development with architecture and strategic direction in a fast-moving, hands-on leadership position.

Responsibilities

  • Help shape the product from early definition through to release
  • Lead the technical approach for product areas, making pragmatic decisions about architecture, implementation and trade-offs
  • Remain hands-on, building end-to-end features across our frontend and backend
  • Write backend TypeScript across Node, Postgres, Redis and Kubernetes
  • Write frontend TypeScript using React
  • Fix bugs, improve infrastructure and support customers when technical input is needed
  • Expand our third-party integration marketplace
  • Contribute to technical architecture planning and help evolve our foundations as the product scales
  • Work closely with Product and Design to turn customer problems and ideas into high-quality product experiences
  • Raise the engineering bar through strong technical judgement, thoughtful implementation and collaboration with other engineers
  • Support our Sales and Marketing teams when engineering context or expertise is useful

Qualifications

  • Multiple years of industry experience building full-stack web applications, ideally within SaaS
  • Strong TypeScript knowledge and a genuine appreciation for the language
  • Experience working across frontend and backend systems and shipping end-to-end features into production
  • Strong technical judgement and experience contributing to architecture and technical direction
  • An appreciation for design, usability and digital product craftsmanship
  • Experience collaborating directly with Product and Design and a track record of delivering meaningful value to customers or users
  • The ability to think beyond an individual implementation and consider how technical decisions affect the wider product and architecture
  • A hands-on approach to leadership. You’re comfortable setting direction and raising the bar while continuing to build yourself
  • The ability to balance speed, product quality and technical quality when making decisions
  • A high degree of ownership and comfort contributing wherever engineering expertise can have the greatest impact

Skills

Required:Full-stack web developmentTypeScriptFrontend and backend collaboration

Benefits

  • Market-leading compensation that reflects your value
  • 25 days paid time off each year plus public holidays
  • Share Options with 5-year exercise window so you don’t feel pressure to exercise if you leave
  • Quarterly team events, and company offsites
  • Top tier private coverage for health, vision and dental care
  • A new MacBook and tools you need to do your best work
  • Enhanced parental leave with up to 16 weeks for primary and 4 weeks for secondary
  • Learning & development budget
Last updated Aug 27, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Humaans

AI-Powered HRIS for high performing teams

Humaans is a next generation HRIS supporting globally distributed organisations. Powered by a flexible data model, deep integrations, fast APIs, and enriched by AI, Humaans removes manual work, reduce compliance risk and enhance your employee experience. Humaans reduces ongoing administrative work by 65% and onboarding time by an average of 55%. We've raised $20 million in VC funding to date. Investors include major Tech players such as Lachy Groom; Slack founder Stewart Butterfield; Shopify founder Tobias Lütke; Figma Founder Dylan Field; Linkedin ex-CEO Jeff Weiner; Stripe COO Claire Johnson; Y Combinator; Moonfire; Frontline Ventures; Exor and more.

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