Engineering Lead

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🕒 September 12

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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The Key Support Services

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2007

📚 Education

🤝 B2B

☁️ SaaS

Education • B2B • SaaS

The Key Support Services is the preferred provider of guidance, resources, and continuing professional development (CPD) for over half of England’s schools and trusts. It offers a wide range of services including leadership classes, administrative support, safeguarding resources, and curriculum improvement tools tailored specifically for educational institutions. With a commitment to delivering reliable and relevant support, The Key aims to empower school leaders and staff to efficiently navigate the challenges they face, ensuring they have access to the most up-to-date guidance and resources.

📋 Description

• Run one of The Key’s product squads building its compliance suite • Provide hands-on technical leadership and code regularly alongside the squad • Set the quality bar through personal work and code review • Own the architecture of the squad’s apps and services, including long-term codebase health and safe operability after launch • Act as the squad’s Tech Lead in weekly product discovery • Provide feasibility sign-off on product briefs before work enters the sprint board • Ship tested working code to main every sprint and launch on the termly cadence • Join customer conversations to stay in direct contact with the problem • Line-manage a squad of 2–3 engineers through regular 1-2-1s, development plans, and performance conversations • Build an engaged, sustainable squad culture as part of the engineering leadership group • Work agentic-first and drive adoption across the squad • Contribute to shared agentic practice across the engineering organisation • Coordinate with other squad leads, the Staff Engineer, and Platform and Core squads on shared services and dependencies • Consume shared AI services and flag cross-squad constraints early

🎯 Requirements

• A senior engineer who still ships, with strong recent experience of modern web stacks • Experience with TypeScript, React, Node and Python • Daily, enthusiastic use of agentic coding tools (Claude Code or similar) • Track record of raising others’ AI-assisted practice • Proven leadership of a team (tech lead, lead engineer, or manager of a small team), including architectural ownership and mentoring • Comfortable in discovery, trading scope with product peers, and offering alternatives rather than blockers • Line management experience, or clear readiness for it with support • Excellent written and spoken English • Experience building LLM-powered product features (desirable) • SaaS, EdTech, or compliance experience (desirable) • Comfort with small-company pace and legacy code alongside greenfield work (desirable)

🏖️ Benefits

• Good work-life balance • Training and support to succeed in the role and continue to progress • Generous holiday allowance • Flexible hours • Buying and selling holiday • Enhanced maternity pay • Free breakfast, fruit, and drinks • Regular socials