Engineering Lead / Manager

Story Terrace Inc.; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A fast-growing technology firm located on Baker Street, London is seeking an experienced Backend Engineering Lead. You will shape the technical direction, guide teams in building scalable microservices, and mentor engineers. The ideal candidate has over 10 years of engineering experience, strong leadership skills, and expertise in cloud-native environments, particularly AWS and Kubernetes. This role offers a competitive salary and benefits including private medical insurance and gym membership.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Private medical insurance

Gym membership

Learning budget

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in engineering.
• Proven experience guiding engineering teams.
• Strong understanding of AWS and Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Shape the long-term backend architecture.
• Guide the evolution of microservices architecture.
• Provide technical leadership to backend squads.

Skills

Microservice-oriented architecture

Technical leadership

Cloud-native environments

Excellent communication

Mentoring

Tools

Java 21

Spring Boot

AWS

Docker

Job description

Location: London
Office attendance: 3 days per week in-office (Baker Street)

About the company

Vega is unlocking scale for alternative asset managers. Private markets are shaping into one of the most important forces in the global economy over the coming decades, with more than $20 trillion in AuM today and expected to already triple by 2032. Today, the industry is at an inflexion point as it enters an era of hypergrowth, increased complexity, and brand new demands. To competitively service and scale their client base across the entire investment lifecycle, managers need a technological transformation. Vega is delivering the industry’s purpose-built infrastructure with AltOS – the client & distribution operating system for alternatives.

Vega’s founding team consists of alternatives specialists from KKR, Blackstone, Elliott, and Goldman Sachs, along with top product and engineering talent from successful fintech scale-ups like Revolut and Trade Republic. Vega has raised over $28M in funding from Apollo, Motive Ventures, Picus Capital, and 60 senior executives from the alternative investment industry.

To learn more, please visit www.vega-alts.com.

Key responsibilities

• Set the technical direction: shape the long-term backend architecture and standards across multiple squads. Make key design decisions on scalability, resilience, and system boundaries, ensuring our platform evolves with clarity and consistency
• Microservices: guide the evolution of our microservices architecture, ensuring best practices in modularity, resilience, observability, and maintainability are applied across teams
  Represent engineering: be the go-to voice for engineering matters in cross-functional forums. Communicate trade-offs, rationale, and technical decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Guide teams, don’t just manage them: provide day-to-day technical leadership to 2–3 backend squads. Help make sound technical choices, remove blockers, and ensure delivery aligns with engineering quality, timelines, and product priorities
• Raise the engineering bar: drive consistent engineering practices across squads: testing, documentation, observability, performance tuning, and incident response
• Security: ensure squads implement best practices for securing data, ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations
• Mentorship & team growth: mentor engineers to grow into stronger technical and people leaders. Help shape career paths, cross-team learning, and ensure we retain and attract top talent

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in engineering, with a strong understanding of modern microservice-oriented architecture
• Proven technical leadership experience, guiding multiple engineering teams in designing, building and operating large-scale distributed systems
• Solid understanding of cloud-native environments, particularly AWS and Kubernetes (K8s), including observability, deployment, and cost optimisation
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, comfortable engaging with engineers, product managers, and non-technical stakeholders
• Passion for mentoring and growing teams, creating an environment that balances technical excellence with fast, pragmatic delivery

Technologies

• Back-end: Java 21, Spring Boot, REST, Postgres/Jooq/Flyway, JUnit/TestContainers/Mockito, AWS (EC2, RDS, Cognito, S3, KMS), Containerization (Docker / kubernetes)
• Front-end: TypeScript, React, and Tailwind CSS

Why join us?

• Opportunity to work at a high-growth company backed by world-class investors
• Competitive salary + equity
• Benefits: private medical insurance, gym membership, learning budget...