AI-First Engineering Team Lead - UK

StarCompliance, Inc.

Greater London

Hybrid

GBP 90,000 - 140,000

Full time

16 hours ago

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Job summary

StarCompliance, Inc. in London (UK) is seeking an Engineering Team Lead to drive the AI-first engineering transformation and provide technical leadership for critical components of the Enterprise SaaS platform.

You will own design decisions, align with architectural standards, and guide a team to deliver high-quality software with strong operational health. You will lead design and execution across AI-enabled workflows, ensure security, scalability, and maintainability, and mentor engineers

Qualifications

Significant software engineering experience, including technical and people leadership.
Strong experience with C# and modern .NET / ASP.NET Core.
Strong understanding of APIs, software architecture, and modern integration patterns.
Strong experience with microservices, containers, and distributed systems.
Experience with infrastructure as code and automated environment provisioning.
Experience with event-driven architecture and asynchronous messaging.
Experience building and operating enterprise SaaS or cloud-hosted applications.
Experience with modern frontend technologies such as React and TypeScript.
Strong knowledge of relational databases, particularly SQL Server.
Practical experience with Microsoft Azure, CI/CD, automated testing, and modern engineering practices.
Understanding of observability, resilience, performance, and secure software development.
Practical experience using AI-assisted engineering tools and agentic development approaches.
Experience supporting or leading AI-first or agentic engineering transformation.
Proven ability to lead engineers, manage delivery, allocate resources, and influence across teams.
Strong technical judgement, communication, coaching, and stakeholder-management skills.

Responsibilities

Own the technical direction of systems and services within the team's domain.
Lead design decisions and ensure alignment with StarCompliance architecture standards.
Maintain sufficient technical depth to challenge designs and support complex problems.
Drive modernisation, simplification, and reduction of technical debt.
Ensure scalability, security, resilience, performance, and maintainability are built in.
AI-First & Agentic Engineering: Lead adoption of AI-assisted and agentic engineering practices.
Structure work so engineers and agents can deliver effectively together.
Increase the proportion of development activity that can be safely automated.
Establish automated validation and guardrails for AI-generated changes.
Measure AI adoption through improvements in throughput, quality, and engineering capacity.
Delivery, Quality & Operations: Own end-to-end delivery and ongoing health of the team's products and services.