Engineering Lead — Backend Platform & Dev Experience

United States Digital Space LLC; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days leave

Private healthcare

Life insurance

Pension

Hybrid working

Volunteer day

EV car scheme

Share scheme

Cycle to work

Dental cover

Optical cover

Critical illness protection

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking an Engineering Lead to drive backend architecture for PHP, Go, and GraphQL. You will provide technical leadership, oversee delivery across multiple teams, and mentor engineers while ensuring production readiness and secure, scalable systems.

You will partner with product, security, and business stakeholders to balance speed and reliability in a fintech-focused environment, while benefiting from a hybrid working model and a strong emphasis on developer

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineering teams in fintech or regulated environments.
• Ability to align technical decisions with delivery timelines and business needs.
• Strong design and code review capabilities with emphasis on security.

Responsibilities

• Lead the evolution of backend architecture across PHP, Go, and GraphQL layers.
• Define technical strategy and oversee API and domain design.
• Drive delivery of multi-team initiatives and remove blockers.
• Coach and mentor engineers; contribute to designs when needed.
• Ensure production readiness, testing, and observability practices.

Skills

Backend architecture

Team leadership

Engineering delivery

Stakeholder management

Code review

Security standards

Observability

CI/CD

Incident response

Tools

PHP

Go

GraphQL

Datadog

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking an Engineering Lead to drive backend architecture for PHP, Go, and GraphQL. You will provide technical leadership, oversee delivery across multiple teams, and mentor engineers while ensuring production readiness and secure, scalable systems.

You will partner with product, security, and business stakeholders to balance speed and reliability in a fintech-focused environment, while benefiting from a hybrid working model and a strong emphasis on developer