Lead Backend Engineer
Zego, London
What you will do
- Lead several engineers within a team or workstream, guiding their work towards user value and business opportunity
- Design, build and own the Python microservices that power our insurance platform: secure, observable and built for scale
- Drive architectural discussions and decisions across multiple teams, shaping the future of our backend systems
- Deliver large, complex technical initiatives end to end, with clarity on scope, sequencing and impact
- Raise the bar on engineering excellence: testability, reliability, scalability and clean code
- Coach and mentor engineers, sharing context, feedback and support so the whole team levels up
- Improve how the team works, from CI/CD pipelines to incident response, investigating root causes and fixing them pragmatically