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Lead Software Engineer

Faculty· Engineering
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Hybrid (London)Full-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Lead Software Engineer role focused on spearheading technical direction and delivery of complex, innovative AI and software projects within Faculty’s Life Science team, acting as a technical expert across solution architecture to client deployments.

Responsibilities

  • Setting the technical direction for complex ML and software projects, balancing trade-offs, and guiding team priorities
  • Architecting, implementing, and maintaining reliable, scalable ML/software systems, and justifying key architectural decisions
  • Defining project problems, developing roadmaps, and overseeing delivery across multiple workstreams in often ill-defined, high-risk environments
  • Driving the development of shared resources and libraries across the organisation and guiding other engineers in contributing to them
  • Leading hiring processes, making informed selection decisions, and mentoring multiple individuals to foster team growth
  • Proactively developing and executing recommendations for adopting new technologies, tools and changing our ways of working to stay ahead of the competition
  • Acting as a technical expert and coach for customers, accurately estimating large work-streams and defending rationale to stakeholders

Qualifications

  • You are a technical expert among your peers, capable of going deep on particular topics and demonstrating breadth of knowledge to solve almost any problem
  • Strong software engineering skills in Python and at least one compiled or strongly-typed language (e.g. Go, Java, Rust, or TypeScript)
  • Expertise in at least one major Cloud Solution Provider (Azure, GCP, AWS) and experience leading teams to build full-stack web applications
  • Hands-on experience with containerisation tools like Docker and orchestration via Kubernetes
  • Ability to guide and support a team of engineers, helping them deliver great work for clients
  • Track record of finding novel, clever solutions for project delivery and taking ownership for successful outcomes
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to proactively help customers and guide both technical teams and non-technical stakeholders

Skills

Required:PythonCompiled/strongly-typed languageCloud platformsDockerKubernetesLeadershipCommunication
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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