Software Engineer - Technical Leadership

Meta; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company in Greater London seeks a Software Engineer to shape privacy technology at Meta. The role requires strong leadership in driving technical strategy and mentoring engineers. The ideal candidate has a solid background in large-scale applications and web/mobile technologies. Join this mission-driven team to redefine digital privacy and ensure compliance while delivering innovative solutions.

Qualifications

• Experience leading projects with industry-wide impact.
• Proven ability to communicate across functions.
• Experience in mentoring senior engineers.

Responsibilities

• Drive technical strategy for privacy challenges.
• Establish technical direction for new teams.
• Develop novel technologies for privacy commitments.

Skills

Project leadership

Cross-functional communication

Mentoring senior engineers

Large-scale application development

Web technologies

Mobile technologies

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or relevant field

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.

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

1. Experience leading projects with industry-wide impact
2. Experience communicating and working across functions to drive solutions
3. Experience in mentoring/influencing senior engineers across organizations
4. Proven track record of planning multi-year roadmap in which shorter-term projects ladder to the long-term vision
5. Strong experience with building large-scale applications, or similar experience
6. Experience with web or mobile technologies
7. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience

Preferred Qualifications

1. Experience shipping products to many millions of customers
2. Privacy Understanding, Data Strategy, AI domain expertise

Industry

Internet