Team Lead - Product Engineer

Omnea; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive geo-localised benefits

Job summary

Omnea is seeking an experienced Team Lead to steer one of our engineering teams in London. You will stay hands-on, writing and shipping code while setting the bar for quality and guiding engineers to deliver impact.

You will partner with a Product Manager and Designer to decide what to build, balance speed with maintainability, and grow the team as Omnea scales. This role offers a compelling opportunity in a fast-growing AI-native SaaS company.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and shipping web apps end to end in TypeScript, ideally on AWS serverless.
• Led engineers before, as a Tech Lead or Team Lead, owning delivery and technical direction.
• Still loves building and shipping code while leading a team.

Responsibilities

• Lead a cross-functional team of engineers, working with a PM and Product Designer.
• Remain hands-on by writing code, reviewing PRs, and solving technical problems.
• Own the technical direction, making architecture and design calls for the team.
• Shape the roadmap with product partners to ship what matters most.
• Grow engineers through coaching, feedback, and possibly line management.
• Build the team by interviewing, hiring, and onboarding new engineers as size doubles.
• Work with modern technology: TypeScript stack, React, Postgres, AWS serverless, Pulumi, GitHub Actions.
• AI-native development: leverage AI agents and tooling to improve workflows.
• Keep customers at the center by solving real problems and delivering value.

Skills

Full-stack engineer

TypeScript

AWS serverless

Leadership

Code reviews

Tools

React

Postgres

AWS serverless (Lambda, DynamoDB, EventBridge)

Pulumi

GitHub Actions

Datadog

Job description

Our Mission:

Omnea is the agentic operating system for procurement.

Procurement touches every pound a business spends, yet requests still stall for weeks and approvals get lost in inboxes. Our AI-first platform changes that: our agents capture requests, route approvals, onboard suppliers, flag risk and track every renewal, while anyone in the business can ask a question and get an answer grounded in their own company’s data. Buying becomes painless for everyone, procurement gets a seat at the table, and our customers have saved more than 100,000 hours of manual work so far.

Companies like Spotify, PayPal, T. Rowe Price, JustEat, Adyen and S&P Global run procurement on Omnea. We’re backed by $75M from Khosla Ventures, Insight Partners and Accel, and we’ve been named the UK’s number one startup in the Startups 100, ranked 11th on Sifted’s 2026 list of Europe’s fastest-growing companies, and recognised as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies.

Talent density matters more to us than almost anything else. We keep the bar high in every team, so everyone here has real ownership and real impact. Our team is full of former founders and operators who’ve scaled unicorns, and we’re looking for people who want to do the best work of their careers alongside them.

Find out more about the team and life at Omnea here.

What We’re Looking For

We’re looking for experienced, product-minded engineers to lead one of our engineering teams. It took over 10,000 interviews to hire our first 50 Omneans, and we’re now growing from 11 to more than 14 engineering teams in the coming months. Over the next year, our engineering team will double in size, our enterprise customer base will grow from ~180 to 300+, and revenue will triple.

As a Team Lead, you’ll own the technical direction and delivery of your team. You’ll stay hands-on, writing and shipping code while setting the bar for quality and helping the engineers around you do the best work of their careers. You’ll partner closely with a Product Manager and Product Designer to decide what to build, and you’ll be accountable for how well it’s built and how fast it ships.

What Can You Expect As a Team Lead?

• Lead a Team. Lead a cross-functional team of engineers, working alongside a PM and Product Designer who sit with you day to day.
• Stay Hands-On. You’ll still build. Expect to spend a meaningful share of your time writing code, reviewing PRs, and unblocking hard technical problems.
• Own Technical Direction. Make the architecture and design calls for your team’s problem space, and own the trade-offs between speed, quality, and long-term maintainability.
• Shape the Roadmap. Work with your PM and Designer on prioritization, scoping, and sequencing so the team ships what matters most.
• Grow Engineers. Coach and give feedback to the engineers on your team and help them take on bigger problems. For experienced Team Leads, this includes line management.
• Build the Team. Interview, help hire, and onboard new engineers as we double in size.
• Work with Modern Technology. TypeScript across the stack, React, Postgres, and AWS serverless (Lambda, DynamoDB, EventBridge), managed through Pulumi and deployed via GitHub Actions. Datadog, Meticulous, and Incident.io round it out.
• AI-Native Development. Engineers use Claude Code and agentic workflows every day, and our product is built on AI agents that automate complex procurement workflows. You’ll help your team get the most out of these tools.
• Customers at the Center. Talk directly with customers to understand their problems and make sure your team is building things that create real value.

About You

• You’re an experienced full-stack engineer. You’ve designed and shipped web apps end to end in TypeScript, ideally on AWS serverless.
• You’ve led engineers before. You’ve been a Tech Lead, Team Lead, or similar, owning delivery for a team and setting its technical direction.
• You still love to build. Leading hasn’t pulled you away from the code, and you want a role where you keep shipping.
• You raise the bar. You know what well-architected, reliable software looks like, and you help others get there through reviews, pairing, and clear feedback.
• You’re motivated by impact. You care about outcomes for customers, not just output, and you make good calls on what to build and what to cut.
• You’re a strong partner. You work well with product and design, push back when it matters, and bring people with you.
• You’re comfortable with ambiguity. You can take an unclear problem, shape it, and get a team moving on it.

Nice-to-Haves

• You’ve led a team through fast growth, ideally at a scale-up where the team and product changed quickly.
• You’ve built B2B or enterprise SaaS, with complex workflows and demanding customers.
• You’ve performed exceptionally at something else, be it academics, sport, or work.

Interview Process

Before applying, we strongly encourage you to spend a few minutes in our R&D Candidate Hub. It covers our engineering culture, ways of working, interview process, tech environment, and what it’s like to build at Omnea.

R&D Candidate Hub : https://omnea.notion.site/R-D-Candidate-Hub-2f688cce658780f1b942c81cd3a032d4

The process generally includes:

1. Initial screening call with our Talent team (30 mins, remote)
2. AI Product Eng Challenge , language-agnostic (1 hour, remote)
3. Onsite interviews at our Victoria office (~3 hours)

We’re proud to support visa sponsorship for candidates who need it.

At Omnea, we embrace diversity. To build a product that’s loved by everyone, we’re best served by a team with all sorts of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn’t quite match the full job spec! And regardless of your race, religion, colour, gender, or anything else! If you think you could be a good fit for Omnea, please reach out.

A few things to note:

• We offer competitive geo-localised benefits, and you can check out our UK Benefits Package here and our US Benefits Package here.
• We work Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays in-person at our offices. At this early stage of our company life-cycle it’s important to us that we get this together-time, and you can read more about why we believe this is a winning move here
• We’re commercial, ambitious and we don’t pretend otherwise! We’re actively seeking folks looking to make the most of a career-defining opportunity, with the hunger to be part of building something really impressive. You can see our values here and our Omnea Future Founder’s fund here!
• We sometimes use AI note-takers to help us transcribe interview notes, so we can be more present in your interview. If you’d like to opt out of us using automatic transcribers, please note this in the free text field in your application, otherwise we’ll take your application as confirmation that you’re happy for us to use notetakers (whether added to video calls or in the background).

We are proud to be recognised for both our culture and product, and we are just getting started. Join us as we grow!

Additionally, where roles have hard-specified requirements (e.g. [x] days in office, unable to provide visas, etc), if in your application you provide deterministic check-box confirmation that you do not meet the hard-specified requirements, deterministic (not AI or subjective) automatic rejection criteria are in place.