Staff Engineer: Tech Lead for End-to-End Systems

Consortium; Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous share scheme

33 days holiday

Learning & leadership programmes

Flexible hybrid working

Wellbeing support

Job summary

Veygo, part of Admiral Group, is seeking a Staff Engineer in Cardiff to stay close to code while guiding technical direction within your squad, collaborating across teams on problems spanning customer journeys, APIs, backend services, data and cloud infrastructure.

You will build tools and environments for dependable software, coach colleagues, and expand autonomy through evidence and automated checks. The role offers flexible hybrid working in Central Cardiff and a generous benefits package.

Qualifications

• Significant experience building and operating full stack software.
• Technical leadership across complex initiatives, with examples of bringing people together and delivering meaningful outcomes.
• The ability to get close to the detail: inspect code, debug difficult behaviour and explain why a system works the way it does.
• Experience with cloud hosted systems, automated testing, CI/CD and safe approaches to changing live services.
• Practical experience directing coding agents, evaluating their work and building the feedback that helps them succeed.
• Sound judgement about security, accessibility, performance and reliability, including where automation needs human oversight.
• Comfort with ambiguity: asking good questions, testing assumptions and giving a team enough clarity to move.

Responsibilities

• Take complex ideas from discovery to production, working with engineering, product and design to define the problem and find a practical route forward.
• Shape systems across the full stack, making clear decisions about interfaces, APIs, domain boundaries, data and infrastructure.
• Lead agentic delivery, setting outcomes, constraints and acceptance criteria, then challenging agents’ plans and checking results.
• Build tools, environments and documentation that make engineers and agents more effective, turning repeated manual work into reusable capabilities.
• Expand autonomy through evidence, using automated checks and clear risk boundaries to let agents implement, test, review and merge low-risk changes.
• Help teams make shared decisions, resolve dependencies and understand the trade-offs that affect their work.
• Evolve existing systems through thoughtful refactoring and safe migrations, balancing stronger foundations with value reaching customers.
• Own production quality, building in accessibility, security, observability and resilience, and acting on what incidents teach us.
• Help other engineers grow through coaching, design discussions and useful feedback, including working with senior colleagues.
• Measure what improves: customer experience, system health, delivery speed, quality and the time people spend on avoidable work.

Skills

Full stack

Frontend/Backend

Technical leadership

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Security & accessibility

Observability

Debugging

Code review

Tools

Terraform

AWS

GitHub

CircleCI

New Relic

Sentry

Job description

Veygo, part of Admiral Group, is seeking a Staff Engineer in Cardiff to stay close to code while guiding technical direction within your squad, collaborating across teams on problems spanning customer journeys, APIs, backend services, data and cloud infrastructure.

You will build tools and environments for dependable software, coach colleagues, and expand autonomy through evidence and automated checks. The role offers flexible hybrid working in Central Cardiff and a generous benefits package.