Web Platform Engineering Lead: Architect & Scale Trading UI

Unite Students; West of England; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary annual bonus

25 days' holiday with holiday buying

Generous pension scheme (5-11%)

Healthcare Cash Plan

Employee Assistance Programme

Wellbeing platform

Gym benefit for you and family

ShareSave scheme

Employee Life Assurance

Discounts portal

Job summary

Unite Students is seeking a Web Engineering Lead to shape a future-ready trading platform. You will own the Web Domain architecture, set engineering standards, and drive secure, scalable delivery with headless, multi-brand architecture.

The role combines strategic leadership with hands-on technical guidance across teams and external partners. You’ll influence engineering quality, enable CI/CD improvements, and manage reliability and security while optimizing cloud costs in AWS.

Qualifications

• Experience leading the architecture and evolution of complex, customer-facing web platforms.
• Strong knowledge of JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, React/Next.js, APIs and cloud technologies, ideally AWS.
• A track record of improving engineering quality, establishing standards and influencing across multiple teams.
• Experience managing engineering partners and driving accountability for technical quality and delivery.
• Understanding of production service ownership, including reliability, security, observability and cloud cost management.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to challenge, influence and bring people together.
• An interest in using AI-assisted engineering tools thoughtfully to improve productivity and quality.

Responsibilities

• Set the technical direction: Own the architecture and technical roadmap for our Web Domain, making the right decisions for today and as the platform evolves.
• Build our next-generation trading platform: Lead the move to a modern, headless, multi-brand architecture that can scale with the business.
• Make great engineering the standard: Help teams write better code, build reusable components and follow consistent engineering practices.
• Improve how we build and release software: Strengthen testing, code quality, CI/CD and release processes with internal teams and external partners.
• Keep the platform running at its best: Ensure performance, security, reliability and monitoring, especially during critical trading periods.
• Own our AWS environment: Ensure cloud infrastructure is secure, reliable, well-managed and cost-effective.
• Bring people together around the right solutions: Collaborate with technology leaders and partners to move initiatives forward.

Skills

Tech leadership

JS/TS

Node.js

React/Next.js

AWS / cloud

Architectural direction

Code quality & standards

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Cloud platforms (AWS)

Job description

Unite Students is seeking a Web Engineering Lead to shape a future-ready trading platform. You will own the Web Domain architecture, set engineering standards, and drive secure, scalable delivery with headless, multi-brand architecture.

The role combines strategic leadership with hands-on technical guidance across teams and external partners. You’ll influence engineering quality, enable CI/CD improvements, and manage reliability and security while optimizing cloud costs in AWS.