Lead Engineer *UK Remote First*

Squared Up; Maidenhead; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to guide a team and innovate features in their SaaS product. The ideal candidate has strong React/TypeScript experience and excellent leadership skills. This fully remote role emphasizes work-life balance, offers competitive compensation, and provides opportunities for personal development. Join a team focused on changing how IT interacts with data, while working flexibly from anywhere in the UK.

Benefits

Competitive salaries

Company matched pension scheme

Private medical insurance

Life insurance

25 days holiday plus a day off for your birthday

Discretionary bonus and share options

Home office setup payment

Up to 3 volunteering days yearly

Qualifications

• Experience mentoring and leading small teams.
• Eager to make a meaningful impact from day one.

Responsibilities

• Lead a small engineering team of developers and testers.
• Work with Product Managers to translate requirements into designs.
• Plan and manage feature delivery.
• Collaborate with engineering and platform teams.
• Mentor your team while developing leadership skills.

Skills

Strong React/TypeScript development experience

Excellent leadership qualities

Understanding of SaaS product operations

Job description

Overview

Location: UK Remote

Hours: 37.5 per week

Contract: Full-time

Join us to help define a new era of operational intelligence.

Our dashboards are used by modern IT and engineering teams to turn data into smarter decisions. Our happy customers include major brands around the world, from McLaren and New Balance to the US House of Representatives and the City of Sydney. This is only the start of our journey to unlock the power of data for everyone.

We’re seeking a Lead Software Engineer with a genuine passion for data visualisation and well-crafted UX, someone who thrives in both guiding a team and getting hands-on creating innovative features. You will shape our SaaS product by turning new ideas into reality. Building custom visualisations, AI-powered features, and intelligent alerting and monitoring, helping users get the most value from 60+ data sources including Jira, GitHub, Prometheus, AWS CloudWatch, and Azure Monitor.

You will be joining a company that is different to the rest.

SquaredUp is a certified B Corp, demonstrating our commitment to ethical and sustainable practices and using business as a force for good. We’re also in the Top 25 ‘Great Place to Work’ list for mid-sized UK tech business, which isn’t all about ping pong, free lunches, your birthday off as holiday, and beach-side conferences; but an environment that values passion, integrity and togetherness.

What you’ll do

• Lead a small but mighty engineering team of developers and testers
• Work closely with our Product Managers to explore requirements and translate into designs
• Plan and manage efficient and high-quality feature delivery by your team
• Develop across the full stack of React / TypeScript / Node.js / AWS Lambda / DynamoDB
• Collaborate with other engineering and platform teams to ensure consistency, quality and performance goals are met
• Mentor your team while growing your own leadership skills in an environment that genuinely cares about your career progression
• Have an opportunity to attend industry conferences, meet customers, and participate in technical communities

You’ll bring

• Strong React/TypeScript development experience
• Excellent leadership qualities with experience of mentoring and leading small teams
• A deep understanding of what it takes to operate and support a SaaS product at scale
• Eager to hit the ground running and make a meaningful difference from day one

Why SquaredUp

We’re on a mission to change how IT and engineering teams work with data. Our advanced dashboards cut through complexity, giving our users clear insights. Our Operational Intelligence platform connects data from your entire tech stack, helping teams make faster, smarter decisions that deliver real, measurable results

Rewards & Perks

Competitive Compensation:

• Competitive salaries
• Comprehensive benefits package including:
• Company matched pension scheme
• Private medical insurance
• Life insurance
• 25 days holiday plus a day off for your birthday
• You will have the opportunity to share in the success of the organisation through participation in our discretionary bonus and share options scheme
• Home based set you up payment

Wellbeing First: In conjunction with our dedicated Wellbeing Team, we support your overall health and welfare. We encourage you to stay active, prioritize your mental health with access to EAP programmes and achieve an excellent work-life balance.

Volunteering: You'll have up to 3 dedicated volunteering days each year to support an organisation of your choice. We believe in making a positive impact beyond the workplace and giving back to our community!

Remote: We’re a remote-first business and are dedicated to providing equal opportunities for everyone, wherever they work. And if you prefer to work in the office, you'll also find SquaredUp offices in Maidenhead (UK) and Boston MA (USA). Irrespective of where you are based, you must be prepared to attend some in-person meet-ups (typically not more than 20 a year).

We recognise potential, whoever you are

We are an equal opportunities employer; and you are welcome here regardless of your age, disability, gender identify, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, socio-economic background or any protected characteristics.

We encourage you to notify us of any adjustments or accommodations you may require to support your application.

We also invite applications from candidates seeking full-time, part-time or flexible working arrangements in the UK.