Software Engineer - Technical Leadership

Meta; City Of London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading internet company is looking for a Software Engineer with a focus on privacy to drive technical strategy and lead projects with significant industry impact. The ideal candidate will have experience in building large-scale applications and communicating effectively across functions. This role is crucial for optimizing privacy commitments while driving efficiency. Join a constantly evolving environment where innovative solutions are operationalized quickly.

Qualifications

• Minimum qualifications include a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Experience leading impactful projects and communicating across functions.
• Significant programming experience and a track record in large-scale application development.

Responsibilities

• Drive technical strategy for critical privacy challenges.
• Establish direction for new Privacy teams under pressure.
• Partner with teams across Meta to navigate technical trade-offs.

Skills

Technical strategy negotiation

Communication across teams

Mentoring senior engineers

Planning multi-year roadmap

Building large-scale applications

Working in ambiguous environments

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Job description

Summary:

At Meta, we're not just building products - we're shaping the future of digital privacy. We believe that privacy is more than a feature; it's a fundamental right. That's why we're committed to embedding privacy into the very heart of our products. We're on a mission to redefine the way privacy is handled in the digital world, and we're looking for innovative minds to join us on this journey.In service of this goal we have multiple high visibility, high impact senior engineering roles available in Privacy, which will put you right at the heart of some of the company’s most important investments and challenges. You might find yourself working on a company wide regulatory response, supporting product teams across Meta on both technical strategy and execution. Or you may develop a deep expertise in a particular theme of external pressure, shaping the company technical direction and developing centralized systems and tooling to allow the business to execute at pace whilst staying on top of our obligations.

Required Skills:

Software Engineer - Technical Leadership Responsibilities:

1. Drive technical strategy for company trajectory-altering problems, negotiating the approach with executive leadership and developing the execution plan with partner orgs, and ensuring we meet privacy commitments while optimizing for company efficiency

2. Establish technical direction for new Privacy teams in our most highly pressured or ambiguous areas

3. Accelerate our ability to meet privacy commitments by developing and applying novel technologies

4. Partner and effectively communicate with teams across Meta to navigate complex technical trade offs in their privacy decision making

5. Identify and execute upon opportunities to help the company move fast through centralization of tooling and systems

6. Embrace a constantly evolving environment where the process is fluid and creative solutions are operationalized at a very fast pace

Minimum Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

1. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

2. Experience leading projects with industry-wide impact

3. Experience communicating and working across functions to drive solutions

4. Experience in mentoring/influencing senior engineers across organizations

5. Proven track record of planning multi-year roadmap in which shorter-term projects ladder to the long-term vision

6. Experience in driving large cross-functional/industry-wide engineering efforts

7. Significant programming experience

8. Strong experience with building large-scale applications, or similar experience

9. Experience with web or mobile technologies

Preferred Qualifications:

Preferred Qualifications:

1. Experience shipping products to many millions of customers

2. Experience building and scaling large products or systems

3. Privacy Understanding, Data Strategy, AI domain expertise

Industry: Internet