Top Engineering Jobs in London

Lead a 0-to-1 pilot team to find and fix high-leverage SDLC friction, instrument system-level metrics (MRPM, pipeline success rate, latency), recruit and mentor four engineers, design and implement durable fixes, and drive adoption across engineering teams while reporting metric-driven outcomes to leadership.

Lead the full‑stack Switchboard team owning the Dedicated tenant management control panel. Hire and develop engineers, partner with Product and Design, set technical direction, ensure cross‑functional delivery, drive quality/security/performance improvements, and operate large‑scale distributed services with strong SLO and operational excellence.

Design, build, and operate the high-availability event and trigger system that links GitLab and third-party events to AI-powered Duo Flows. Work in GitLab's Rails monolith, scale for high throughput, influence architecture, add trigger types, collaborate cross-functionally, and participate in Tier 2/3 on-call rotations to troubleshoot production issues.

Encord seeks former technical founders to drive high-leverage opportunities in product, engineering, GTM, and operations, emphasizing entrepreneurial mindset and ownership.

Lead end-to-end hiring for senior and niche engineering roles across multiple locations. Design centralized pipelines, intake processes, interview rubrics, and sourcing strategies (including AI-assisted outreach). Coach hiring managers, run debriefs and evidence-based decisions, own recruiting metrics, and drive cross-functional projects to improve hiring speed, fairness, and quality.

Lead a global People Technology engineering team to own end-to-end employee journeys, deliver the technical roadmap, improve HRIS integrations and reliability, support incidents and SLAs, standardise agile rituals, and coach engineers to improve adoption and internal customer experience.

Lead a platform engineering squad to deliver scalable, cloud-native solutions. Drive technical vision, engineering standards, incident response, and adoption of AI-assisted development and automation. Coach engineers, manage delivery roadmaps, ensure operational stability, and align technical work with business and regulatory requirements.

Manage distribution and automation engineering projects including charter development, budget and timeline tracking, supplier specifications and contracts, consultant engagement, coordination with internal teams, capital expenditure preparation, and oversight of construction/installation, testing, training, and startup. Role requires extensive travel (up to 75%).

Lead a large backend engineering team owning the Contacts domain: design scalable distributed systems, improve reliability and security, define product roadmap with PM, mentor engineers, and ensure fast, robust APIs and integrations for both consumer and enterprise customers.

Lead and develop a team of ~8-10 software engineers, owning delivery, career growth, architecture decisions, and roadmap planning with Product. Drive recruitment, performance reviews, processes for scalable, highly available features, and promote AI-augmented development workflows to improve efficiency and product outcomes.

Lead and develop a team of Forward Deployed Engineers to execute customer onboarding, on-site deployments, troubleshooting, and sustained adoption of the Hivemind SDK. Drive field feedback into product, translate mission goals into technical milestones, and partner with engineering and product teams to improve deployment readiness and customer outcomes.

The Engineering Manager will lead a team to transform the platform into a cohesive product, overseeing delivery timelines and ensuring team growth and performance. Responsibilities include dealing with ambiguity, driving cross-functional collaboration, and promoting a high-performing culture within engineering teams.

Manage a technical team focused on Git and Git-related infrastructure, balancing upstream open-source work with GitLab priorities. Drive long-horizon scalability, performance, and architectural projects while fostering technical rigor, ownership, mentoring, and strong asynchronous communication across distributed teams.

Lead a team building backend systems for business expense management (receipts, expense reports, bookkeeping, card products). Own the technical roadmap, drive architecture and implementation, mentor engineers, collaborate with product and cross-functional squads, and apply LLM technologies to automate document scanning, categorization, and reconciliation.

As the People Enablement Partner, you will lead recruitment for Engineering and Product roles, build talent pipelines, partner with leadership on hiring strategy, and implement performance management frameworks.

Lead and mentor a team of software engineers, overseeing the implementation and optimization of enterprise systems while driving digital transformation initiatives. Collaborate with stakeholders to enhance system efficiency and ensure quality delivery.

Lead and mentor a cross-functional platform engineering team building verification (KYC) platform rails. Own technical roadmap, ensure reliability, scalability and operational excellence, collaborate with global stakeholders, contribute hands-on to delivery, run on-call and incident response, and drive platform integrations, review tooling and versioned configuration-driven rules.

Manage a cross-functional engineering team building GitLab Duo Chat's AI-powered features. Define requirements with product and UX, contribute to architecture for scalable agentic AI, drive delivery and roadmap execution, improve testing, observability, performance, and coach engineers to foster an inclusive, high-performing team.

Lead and scale EMEA sales engineering: build and develop SE leaders, own technical pre-sales strategy, drive technical excellence across the sales cycle, engage CxOs on architecture and cyber resilience, and partner cross-functionally to align enablement, hiring, and field intelligence.

Lead design, development, testing, and operation of ultra-low-latency C++ trading and risk modules, integrating FPGA acceleration. Drive latency optimization, CI/CD, AI-assisted engineering adoption, automation, and cross-team collaboration to ensure reliability and performance.

Lead design, build, and maintain large-scale, secure data engineering solutions. Produce and review production code, improve operational stability, drive AI-assisted engineering adoption, evaluate vendors, and shape technical strategy and team culture.

Lead technical design, develop secure cloud-native applications, drive adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering, improve automation and operational stability, evaluate vendors, and promote engineering excellence across teams.

Lead frontend engineer responsible for designing and delivering cloud-native, mobile-first solutions. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, write clean/testable code, troubleshoot, mentor junior developers, adopt AI-assisted development practices, and drive continuous improvement of development processes and automation.

Lead design, develop, and optimize low-latency options algorithmic trading systems. Produce high-quality Java code, implement order management, market data processing, and risk systems. Drive automation, CI/CD, performance tuning, and adoption of enterprise AI-assisted engineering practices. Ensure operational stability, testing, and collaboration with product and trading teams.

Lead design and delivery of high-performance, real-time data pipelines and analytics for trading. Drive AI-enabled data engineering, mentor engineers, manage global initiatives, and improve SDLC, testing, and operational reliability.