Top Engineering Jobs in London

Technical Director leading coastal and water engineering projects across marine, river, and infrastructure environments. Responsibilities include technical delivery, client advisory, team leadership, bid development, commercial oversight, project management, quality assurance, and integration of sustainable and emerging solutions. The role requires expertise in coastal processes, scour assessment, hydraulic design, asset management, and major infrastructure projects, along with chartered engineering status and strong commercial and leadership experience.

Lead and develop an 8–10-person frontend and backend engineering team while remaining hands-on in code. Set technical direction across Next.js, TypeScript, PHP, Symfony, AWS, GCP, Vercel, and data infrastructure. Own delivery, engineering processes, AI-assisted development practices, infrastructure, hiring, career progression, and cross-functional technical leadership in a fast-moving B2B SaaS scale-up.

Lead a small engineering squad by setting technical direction, driving delivery and operational excellence, managing risks, and aligning work with company goals. Coach and develop engineers, support hiring and performance reviews, collaborate with Product Managers and cross-functional stakeholders, improve engineering practices, and maintain security, service-level objectives, team culture, and budget accountability.

Lead an autonomous engineering squad alongside a Product Manager, owning technical decisions, delivery planning, operational excellence, security and SLOs. Set goals, prioritize work, manage risks, coach and develop engineers, support hiring and performance reviews, communicate strategy and progress, and collaborate with UX, Data, and senior stakeholders. The role also drives technical quality, team culture, budgeting, and continuous improvement across complex energy-related products.

Lead the Production Inference team of research scientists and ML engineers. Own people development, technical direction, research and development roadmaps, architecture decisions, and model-serving reliability, efficiency, latency, and cost performance. Partner with research, infrastructure, product, and commercial stakeholders; guide production deployment and lifecycle improvements; and recruit technical talent. The role emphasizes leadership and technical reviews rather than hands-on coding.

Lead the design and development of production-grade agentic AI applications for Markets Operations. Build reusable AI architecture patterns, orchestration frameworks, context management, evaluation pipelines, guardrails, APIs, infrastructure, and monitoring. Partner with researchers, engineers, data scientists, and operations stakeholders to deliver secure, reliable, compliant AI solutions. Drive continuous improvement, document technical decisions, influence architecture, and mentor engineers.

Supports product engineering initiatives across ideation, development, testing, transformation, and simplification. The role coordinates cross-functional delivery, creates governance materials and project assets, supports market research, manages product reviews and improvement plans, and promotes effective risk, control, regulatory, and customer outcomes. It also helps assess new opportunities and ensure engineering activity aligns with broader product strategy.

Leads a 30-person enterprise reporting and analytics engineering organization. Owns the roadmap, budget, hiring, governance, semantic models, metric layer, data products, visualization platforms, metadata, lineage, and reporting rationalization. Partners with Data Engineering, Product Management, and Data Science to deliver governed analytics, AI-enabled access, anomaly detection, and proactive analytic agents. Establishes engineering standards, intake and prioritization processes, self-service capabilities, and executive-facing data solutions.

Leads the global engineering and reliability organization responsible for CI/CD, infrastructure provisioning, Oracle database engineering, observability, security, performance, and cost. Owns technical strategy, platform modernization, SRE practices, cloud transformation, governance, vendor relationships, budgets, and regulatory compliance. Builds and develops a distributed leadership team of 40+ engineers while ensuring highly available, secure, and cost-effective platforms.

Own end-to-end recruitment for complex, senior, and niche engineering searches. Partner with senior engineering leaders, develop active sourcing strategies, analyze recruiting funnel metrics, support calibration and interview training, improve hiring processes, coach recruiting peers, and deliver an exceptional candidate experience.

Lead Engineering Managers and approximately 50 engineers and technicians across Spotify’s IT Studio. Set engineering strategy, improve technical practices, reliability, security, compliance, privacy, and operational health, and partner with product and business leadership on technical investments. The role oversees enterprise technology spanning identity, endpoint management, networking, workplace platforms, collaboration tools, and AI-enabled productivity.

Twelve-week software engineering internship developing production-level code, research platforms, data-processing pipelines, database queries, and internal tools supporting quantitative finance research. Interns collaborate with quantitative researchers and experienced engineers, contribute to scalable systems, and receive structured onboarding, mentoring, and technical development opportunities.

Leads the engineering team responsible for People and Procurement technology, including Workday, enterprise SaaS platforms, integrations, and data flows. Provides people and technical leadership, owns platform reliability, security, lifecycle management, operational performance, and technical debt, and translates business priorities into engineering plans. Partners with Product, Architecture, Security, vendors, and business stakeholders to modernize platforms, manage risks, and ensure sustainable delivery and operation.

Coordinate a single-track roadmap across UX, engineering, product, and stakeholders for UltraGrid, Hypervolt’s backend connectivity platform. Manage project scope, milestones, risks, dependencies, and delivery using Jira. Communicate progress to technical and non-technical audiences while mentoring teams and promoting accountability. The role supports large-scale consumer technology, real-time data, grid balancing, and EV charging products in a fast-growing startup environment.

Manage engineers across intelligence, experience, and platform squads; lead hiring, coaching, performance management, technical ownership, delivery planning, and team development. Partner with Product, technical leads, and the CTO to translate priorities into solutions, manage capacity and dependencies, resolve obstacles, and improve engineering quality. Lead production delivery of distributed systems, data pipelines, and platform services while maintaining customer and business outcome accountability.

Leads the algorithm engineering team and partners with leadership to shape Ki’s underwriting algorithm strategy, architecture, roadmap, governance, and engineering culture. The role manages and develops high-performing engineers, guides machine learning product development, advises executives on technology strategy, supports regulatory compliance, and improves the organization’s digital underwriting capabilities.

Develop and maintain scalable cloud ecosystems using Golang and Python, enhancing backend microservices and collaborating within a fast-paced team.

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 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.

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.

Manage and grow an Endpoint engineering team to build and scale backend infrastructure that ingests, aggregates, and stores agent-collected telemetry. Collaborate with product and cross-functional teams to deliver assurance use cases, drive data processing and availability at scale, and support engineers' career development.

Leads the global engineering organization across London and the US, owning technical strategy, engineering operations, reliability, delivery processes, culture, and team performance. Manages Tech Leads and develops engineering leadership capability while partnering with Product, Design, People, GTM, and enterprise customers. Establishes standards, metrics, incident response, continuous deployment, and scalable ways of working across a distributed SaaS engineering organization.

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.

Leads technical and commercial evaluation of gas and LNG investment opportunities and provides governance for non-operated assets. Assesses development concepts, execution strategies, costs, schedules, risks, operator work programs, budgets, production forecasts, and capital projects. Supports investment decisions, value assurance, HSE and ESG oversight, risk mitigation, optimization, and stakeholder engagement across joint ventures and partnerships.

Leads technical and commercial evaluation of gas and LNG investments, including acquisitions, farm-ins, infrastructure access, and project sanctioning. Oversees non-operated asset governance, operator performance, budgets, production forecasts, capital projects, HSE, ESG, and risk assurance. Represents the investor in joint ventures and strategic forums while identifying value creation, cost reduction, emissions reduction, and asset-life-extension opportunities across the investment lifecycle.