Senior Engineering Lead - Scale Enterprise Systems

Kernel; London (KY); On-site; USD 172,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary in GBP

25% equity as part of offer

London office in central area

Pension plan

Team events and dinners

Job summary

Kernel is seeking a player‑coach engineering leader to own end‑to‑end delivery for their team, blending hands‑on coding with strategic direction. You’ll scale an enterprise‑grade stack, set architecture, and mentor engineers in a fast‑moving, high‑growth startup environment in London.

You’ll split time roughly 20% coding and 80% leadership, guiding a team through ambitious technical challenges while collaborating with Product on the roadmap and priorities.

Qualifications

• 8+ years software engineering experience.
• Track record of hiring and developing strong engineers.
• Strong production systems background and distributed systems experience.
• Autonomous in small, high-velocity environments, ideally startup.

Responsibilities

• Build, hire, and develop a high‑performing engineering team.
• Help set technical direction and architecture decisions.
• Own engineering delivery with emphasis on velocity.
• Collaborate with Product on roadmap and prioritisation.
• Write code when needed to stay close to the product.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Distributed systems

Startup experience

Data/ML collaboration

Hiring & coaching

Node.js

TypeScript

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

AWS

Tools

Node.js

TypeScript

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

Kernel is seeking a player‑coach engineering leader to own end‑to‑end delivery for their team, blending hands‑on coding with strategic direction. You’ll scale an enterprise‑grade stack, set architecture, and mentor engineers in a fast‑moving, high‑growth startup environment in London.

You’ll split time roughly 20% coding and 80% leadership, guiding a team through ambitious technical challenges while collaborating with Product on the roadmap and priorities.