Lead Software Engineer – Industrial Sustainability Reporting Platform London, England, United Kingdom Research and Development

IFS; Greater London; Híbrido; GBP 90.000 - 120.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

IFS is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to drive the design of scalable APIs and AI-native features within our Industrial Sustainability Reporting Platform. You will shape architecture, lead cross-functional teams, and own end-to-end delivery from backend services to frontend interfaces.

You’ll mentor engineers, promote best practices, and collaborate with product, design, and platform teams to build cloud-native, observable software that supports decarbonization initiatives.

Formación

• Experience in full stack development across frontend and backend.
• Proficient with React and GoLang.
• Design scalable APIs and cloud-native apps.
• Strong DevOps and observability practices.
• Experience with AI-enabled, data-intensive sustainability products.

Responsabilidades

• Lead design, architecture, and implementation of scalable APIs, services, and accessibility-first UIs.
• Deliver AI-native features across frontend and backend for carbon accounting, ESG data collection, and sustainability planning.
• Evolve platform into modular, event-driven, API-first components.
• Provide technical direction on scalability, maintainability, performance, and product impact.
• Own reliability and operational excellence including telemetry, SLOs, incident response.
• Champion DevOps including CI/CD, deployment automation, monitoring.
• Collaborate with Platform Engineers in a DevOps shared service model.
• Mentor engineers and promote engineering best practices.
• Champion code quality, documentation, testing, performance, security.
• Take full ownership of deliverables quality and production readiness.
• Partner with PM, Design, AI, Platform Eng and other teams on discovery and delivery.
• Bring product- and customer-led mindset to solve pain points with scalable solutions.
• Identify risks and bottlenecks and opportunities to improve architecture.

Conocimientos

Full stack

Front-end

Back-end

React

GoLang

DevOps

Cloud platforms

Distributed systems

PostgreSQL

Leadership

Mentoring

Observability

AI data

Herramientas

Azure

AWS

GCP

CI/CD

Descripción del empleo

Lead Software Engineer – Industrial Sustainability Reporting Platform

Full-time

IFS is a billion-dollar revenue company with 7000+ employees on all continents. Our leading AI technology is the backbone of our award-winning enterprise software solutions, enabling our customers to be their best when it really matters–at the Moment of Service™. Our commitment to internal AI adoption has allowed us to stay at the forefront of technological advancements, ensuring our colleagues can unlock their creativity and productivity, and our solutions are always cutting-edge.

At IFS, we’re flexible, we’re innovative, and we’re focused not only on how we can engage with our customers but on how we can make a real change and have a worldwide impact. We help solve some of society’s greatest challenges, fostering a better future through our agility, collaboration, and trust.

We celebrate diversity and understand our responsibility to reflect the diverse world we work in. We are committed to promoting an inclusive workforce that fully represents the many different cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints of our customers, our partners, and our communities. As a truly international company serving people from around the globe, we realize that our success is tantamount to the respect we have for those different points of view.

By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to be part of aglobal, diverse environment;you will be joining awinning teamwith acommitment to sustainability;and a company where we get things done so that you canmake a positive impacton the world.

We’re looking for innovative and original thinkers to work in an environment where you can#MakeYourMomentso that we can help others make theirs. With the power of our AI-driven solutions, we empower our team to change the status quo and make a real difference.

If you want to change the status quo, we’ll help you make your moment. Join Team Purple. Join IFS.

Core Responsibilities

• Lead the design, architecture, and implementation of scalable APIs, services, and accessibility-first user interfaces
• Deliver AI-native features across both front-end and back-end, spanning carbon accounting, ESG data collection, and sustainability planning capabilities
• Drive the evolution of the platform into modular, event-driven, API-first components
• Provide technical direction and make sound engineering trade-offs around scalability, maintainability, performance, and product impact
• Own reliability and operational excellence, including telemetry, SLOs, error budgets, on-call rotations, incident response, and continuous service improvement
• Champion DevOps practices, including CI/CD, deployment automation, monitoring, and application-level operations
• Collaborate with Platform Engineers as part of a lean DevOps shared service model, while taking responsibility for application-level DevOps within the team
• Mentor engineers, promote engineering best practices, and help raise the technical bar across the team
• Champion code quality, documentation, automated testing, performance, security, and maintainability
• Take full ownership of the quality of deliverables, including test automation, continuous improvement, and production readiness
• Partner closely with Product Management, Design, AI, Platform Engineering, and other engineering teams on product discovery, technical trade-offs, and delivery
• Bring a product- and customer-led mindset to solving customer pain points with elegant, scalable engineering solutions
• Identify technical risks, performance bottlenecks, and opportunities to improve the platform architecture and engineering ways of working

Qualifications

• Strong experience in full stack software engineering, with proven capability across both front-end and back-end development
• Solid experience with modern front-end technologies, particularly React or similar frameworks
• Strong back-end engineering experience, ideally including GoLang or comparable general-purpose programming languages
• Experience designing and building scalable APIs, services, and cloud-native applications
• Strong understanding of DevOps practices, including CI/CD, deployment, monitoring, automation, and incident response
• Experience delivering secure, observable, high-quality production software
• Strong focus on code quality, automated testing, documentation, performance, and maintainability
• Ability to lead technical design discussions and influence architectural decisions
• Effective collaboration and communication skills across Product, Design, Platform, and Engineering teams
• Ownership mindset, with accountability for outcomes from design through to production
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP
• Experience with event-driven architectures, distributed systems, or microservices
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL
• Experience working in cross-functional product teams
• Experience mentoring engineers or contributing to engineering standards
• Experience with AI-enabled, data-intensive, sustainability, carbon intelligence, ESG reporting, or enterprise SaaS products
• Familiarity with sustainability frameworks and standards (e.g., GHG Protocol, CSRD, SBTi)
• Familiarity with observability, reliability engineering, SLOs, error budgets, and production incident management

What We're Looking For

We are looking for a senior engineer who combines strong hands-on engineering with technical leadership. You should be comfortable building across the stack, making architectural decisions, improving engineering practices, and influencing how products are designed, delivered, and operated.

You will be successful in this role if you enjoy solving complex customer problems, building scalable cloud-native systems, collaborating across disciplines, and helping teams deliver high-quality software that has real-world impact on industrial decarbonization.

We embrace flexibility and hybrid work opportunities to support diverse needs and lifestyles, while also valuing inclusive workplace experiences. By fostering a sense of community, we drive innovation, strengthen connections, and nurture belonging. Our commitment ensures you can work in a way that suits you best, while also engaging with colleagues to share ideas and build meaningful relationships.