Tech Lead, Optimization Engineering - Hybrid, 20% Bonus

easyJet; Luton; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary + up to 20%

7% employer pension contribution

Private medical insurance

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Annual credit towards an easyJet break

Excellent staff travel benefits

Flexible benefits package including´n

Job summary

easyJet is seeking a Tech Lead for Optimization Engineering in Luton to guide a cross-functional team. You will shape software and optimisation solutions for disruption management, crew optimisation and recovery planning, partnering with product managers and operations experts.

The role combines architecture leadership with hands-on coding and delivery in a hybrid UK environment. You’ll mentor engineers, drive scalable solutions, and ensure performance, reliability and explainability for

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading engineering teams delivering production-grade software.
• Experience delivering optimisation, scheduling or decision-support applications.
• Knowledge of mathematical optimisation concepts such as constraint-based optimisation, heuristics and mixed-integer programming.
• Hands-on programming experience in Python, Java, C# or C++.
• Experience integrating optimisation solvers such as Gurobi, CPLEX or equivalent technologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor and develop a cross-functional engineering team focused on quality, delivery and innovation.
• Provide technical leadership across architecture, services, data pipelines and optimisation platforms.
• Shape roadmaps, translate complex business requirements into deliverable engineering solutions.
• Collaborate with optimisation specialists to integrate solver technologies into production systems.

Skills

Software engineering

System design

Distributed systems

Optimization

Python

Java

C#

C++

Gurobi

CPLEX

Stakeholder management

Mentoring engineers

Tools

Gurobi

CPLEX

Python

Java

C#

C++

Job description

easyJet is seeking a Tech Lead for Optimization Engineering in Luton to guide a cross-functional team. You will shape software and optimisation solutions for disruption management, crew optimisation and recovery planning, partnering with product managers and operations experts.

The role combines architecture leadership with hands-on coding and delivery in a hybrid UK environment. You’ll mentor engineers, drive scalable solutions, and ensure performance, reliability and explainability for