Software Engineer - Technical Leadership

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

Job summary

A leading technology company is on a mission to redefine digital privacy and is seeking innovative minds for senior engineering roles in Privacy. The positions involve driving technical strategy and shaping the company's approach to privacy challenges. Successful candidates will take charge of establishing technical direction for new teams, develop novel technologies, and navigate complex trade-offs while efficiently meeting privacy commitments. Ideal candidates should have significant project leadership experience, a strong technical background, and a bachelor's degree in a relevant field.

Qualifications

• Experience leading projects with significant industry impact.
• Ability to communicate across functions to drive technical solutions.
• Track record of mentoring senior engineers.

Responsibilities

• Drive technical strategy for altering company trajectory issues.
• Establish direction for new Privacy teams in pressured areas.
• Develop technologies to meet privacy commitments efficiently.

Skills

Technical Strategy Development

Project Leadership

Cross-Functional Communication

Mentoring

Building Large-Scale Applications

Web or Mobile Technologies

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related 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.

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

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