Senior Platform & Real-Time Engineering Leader – London

Wheely Ltd.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee stock options plan

Private medical and dental insurance

Life and critical illness cover

Monthly credit towards Wheely journeys

Cycle to Work scheme

Relocation support including visa sponsorship

Job summary

Wheely Ltd. is seeking a Senior Engineer to shape the London engineering hub. You will lead the technical direction, focusing on backend system design and real-time application challenges in a fast‑growing ride-hailing service.

The role involves managing engineers and nurturing a new office culture while ensuring a robust privacy framework within the platform. Ideal candidates have extensive real-time systems experience and a proactive approach to building teams and systems.

Qualifications

• Experience in designing backend systems from scratch.
• Proficiency in real-time systems at consumer scale.
• Several years of engineering management experience.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction of the platform end to end.
• Make real-time work for the driver app under adversarial conditions.
• Lead the privacy story on the engineering side.

Skills

Real-time systems experience

Backend system design

Managing engineering teams

Tools

Go

Rust

Job description

Wheely Ltd. is seeking a Senior Engineer to shape the London engineering hub. You will lead the technical direction, focusing on backend system design and real-time application challenges in a fast‑growing ride-hailing service.

The role involves managing engineers and nurturing a new office culture while ensuring a robust privacy framework within the platform. Ideal candidates have extensive real-time systems experience and a proactive approach to building teams and systems.