Lead Architect, Wealth Management Platforms

United States Digital Space LLC; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

BJAK is seeking a Lead Engineer to take technical ownership of complex products and systems, raising the engineering bar across the team. This is a hands‑on leadership role, where you will design systems, write and review code, solve difficult problems, and guide engineers from idea to production.

You should be comfortable moving between architecture and implementation, making strong technical decisions while staying close to code.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering background with significant experience building and shipping production systems.
• Deep technical expertise in backend, frontend, distributed systems, APIs, databases or cloud infrastructure.
• Strong system design and architecture skills with experience making technical decisions for complex or high‑scale systems.
• Strong coding ability and willingness to remain hands‑on.
• Proven experience leading major engineering projects or providing technical leadership to other engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical design and execution of major products, features and engineering initiatives.
• Design scalable, reliable and maintainable systems across backend, frontend, APIs, databases and infrastructure.
• Stay hands‑on with engineering through coding, prototyping, code reviews, debugging and production problem‑solving.
• Make architecture decisions and technical trade‑offs that balance speed, scalability, reliability and maintainability.
• Break ambiguous product and technical problems into clear engineering solutions and execution plans.
• Set a high bar for code quality, system design, testing, security, observability and production reliability.
• Review technical designs and code from other engineers and provide clear, actionable feedback.
• Mentor engineers and help strengthen technical capability across the team.
• Identify technical risks, bottlenecks and architectural weaknesses before they become larger problems.
• Work closely with engineering, product, design and AI teams to ship high‑quality products quickly.
• Improve engineering tooling, development practices and automation to increase team velocity.
• Own systems beyond release — monitor production, investigate incidents, resolve root causes and continuously improve reliability.

Skills

Strong software engineering background

System design & architecture

Hands-on coding

Technical leadership

Production systems experience

Job description

BJAK is seeking a Lead Engineer to take technical ownership of complex products and systems, raising the engineering bar across the team. This is a hands‑on leadership role, where you will design systems, write and review code, solve difficult problems, and guide engineers from idea to production.

You should be comfortable moving between architecture and implementation, making strong technical decisions while staying close to code.