Lead Software Engineer

Getground; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

EMI share options

Private health

Private dental

Mental health days off (12)

Hybrid working

Free breakfast

Team events

360° performance reviews

Conferences support

Job summary

GetGround is building an AI-native real estate platform in London. We seek a Lead Engineer to shape how our engineering team delivers end-to-end, user-facing AI-enabled products. You will work across frontend and backend, collaborating with product, design and other engineers to ship high-quality features with speed.

You’ll own technical initiatives, contribute to engineering practices, and mentor fellow engineers as the team scales in a fast-growing PropTech environment.

Qualifications

• Own technical initiatives and be a senior technical voice on problems
• Balance frontend and backend work and contribute across the stack
• Collaborate with product/design/engineers to ship features quickly using AI tools

Responsibilities

• Understand customer needs from concept to deployment
• Take ownership in a fast-moving environment with evolving requirements
• Build and maintain user-facing products with React/Remix/TypeScript frontend and Golang backend
• Help define engineering practices for AI-native development
• Mentor and scale the engineering team

Skills

Ownership of technical initiatives

Product and commercial thinking

Mentoring engineers

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

React

Remix

TypeScript

Golang

Job description

At GetGround, our mission is simple: to make property investment safer, faster, and more accessible for landlords. We believe AI can reshape the landlord journey end to end - not just improving single steps, but reimagining the entire experience of property investing. The result will be a future of buy-to-let that is radically different to how we know it by disrupting a £1.7 trillion UK asset class.

We explore the ideas, predictions, and data trends that will shape this future, and what they mean for landlords and the PropTech industry.

Our four values are the foundation of our culture and shape our behaviours - no BS, pursuit of excellence, feedback obsession and healthy ego. We have built a high performing organisation where intrinsic drive fuels GetGrounders to build a world class investment experience for our users.

In numbers:

• 85+ GetGrounders (ex Google, Meta, Deliveroo, Startups)
• £3bn+ of assets under management
• 30,000+ users across 70 countries
• Series A with a strong runway

What's the role?

We're looking for a Lead Engineer, an individual contributor role, to help shape how our engineering team builds in an AI-native environment. You'll join our cross-functional product team in London, shaping technical direction while working hands-on to build user-facing AI-native products.

How we work:

Our engineering culture puts AI as a first-class citizen, not just in the products we ship, but in how we write code, reason about systems, and scale ourselves as engineers.

What you'll do:

• You’ll work closely cross functionally to understand customer needs, taking ideas from concept all the way through to deployment
• You’ll enjoy a lot of ownership and freedom, navigating a fast-moving environment where things aren't always clearly defined
• Build and maintain user-facing products across the stack. Today that means React, Remix, and TypeScript on the frontend, and Golang on the backend, but you’ll work fluidly across both
• Collaborate closely with product, design, and other engineers to ship high-quality features fast, using AI tools as leverage in your day to day development
• Help define new engineering practices for an AI-native development environment
• Mentor other engineers and help us scale our engineering culture

What we're looking for

• A track record of owning technical initiatives, and being a senior technical voice in the room on a given problem
• Product and commercial thinking
• Comfortable moving between frontend and backend development, even if you have a background leaning more heavily one way
• A curiosity and excitement about using AI tools to build better software faster
• Familiarity with React, Remix, and TypeScript is great, but not essential
• Experience setting or influencing engineering practices, not just following them
• A track record of mentoring or supporting other engineers

Benefits:

• Competitive salary
• EMI share options
• Private health
• Private dental
• 12 Mental health days off annually (1 per month) PLUS holidays + public holidays
• 1 paid Community day off (paid day off to volunteer for a charitable cause)
• Hybrid working (check details with your recruiter)
• Free breakfast daily
• Team and company-wide events
• 360° performance reviews to promote a culture of growth and development
• Support for conferences and professional learning & development

What we are building:

The first end-to-end real estate investment offering - making the dream of owning real estate more accessible to everyone globally.

Diversity & inclusion at GetGround:

We encourage applications from all sections of society and we believe in the criticality of an inclusive culture. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other basis as protected by law.

• 42% of our employees identify as female or non-specified, 58% as male
• 22 nationalities represented across offices in 5 countries
• Our work on Design Accessibility
• Inclusion is at the heart of our culture - we celebrate and reflect on key D&I and cultural events such as: Black History Month, International Women's Day and Pride

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