Software Engineering Lead

Salary: £43,000 - 83,000 per year

Requirements:

• Demonstrated success leading and mentoring a team of 3–5 software engineers for at least 2 years.
• Strong experience with TypeScript across backend (Node.js/NestJS) and frontend (React/Redux) development.
• Proven track record of architecting scalable UI applications and APIs, with the ability to make informed decisions about technology choices and architectural patterns.
• Experience leading technical initiatives, fostering collaboration, driving delivery, and maintaining high engineering standards.
• Good understanding of data visualisation and experience with libraries or tools for rendering complex network graphs and transaction flows.
• Prior exposure to databases and writing SQL queries, and comfort partnering with data and application engineers.
• Good understanding of cloud technologies such as AWS Serverless, API Gateway, Kubernetes, and Terraform, with the ability to guide teams on infrastructure best practices.
• Experience with monitoring tools like DataDog and general observability best practices.
• Interest in or experience with cryptocurrency and blockchain technology.
• Ability to actively use AI coding assistants in a daily workflow, critically evaluate AI-generated code, and understand when AI tools are useful and when they are not.

Responsibilities:

• Write and review code to unblock the team, demonstrate best practices, and pair with team members to share knowledge and tackle challenging technical issues.
• Help the team make sound technical decisions by considering trade-offs and aligning technical excellence with business objectives.
• Work closely with the Product team and other stakeholders to ensure the team works on meaningful missions.
• Help team members find their own solutions, building problem-solving skills and creating a self-sufficient, resilient team.
• Provide system overviews and context to new team members, accelerating their integration and productivity.
• Attend regular lead meetings to share updates and exchange best practices.
• Explain complex technical concepts to engineers, managers, and business stakeholders to ensure quality delivery and collaboration.
• Set the standard for how the team uses AI coding tools, knowing when they speed up delivery and when they need extra scrutiny, and ensure engineers can explain and own any AI-assisted code before it ships.
• Coach and mentor a high-performing team.
• Foster innovation and partner with cross-functional teams to deliver meaningful value to users and set the benchmark for excellence in crypto investigations.

Technologies:

• AI
• API
• AWS
• Backend
• Blockchain
• Cloud
• Datadog
• Frontend
• Support
• Kubernetes
• NestJS
• Network
• React
• Redux
• SQL
• Serverless
• Terraform
• TypeScript
• UX UI Design
• NodeJS
• Copilot
• Cursor

More:

We are Elliptic, and we are seeking a Software Engineering Lead to join our Investigations team in London, United Kingdom. This is a full-time, hybrid role within our Engineering department, focused on building scalable products that empower compliance teams to track fund flows and uncover deeper insights in financial data. We work at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and financial crime prevention, building tools that help investigators worldwide uncover and stop illicit activity in the crypto space. We offer hybrid working with the option to work from almost anywhere for up to 90 days per year, a £500 remote working budget, a $1,000 learning and development budget, 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays, an extra day for your birthday, enhanced parental leave of 16 weeks fully paid, private health insurance, Spill mental health support, life assurance at 4 times salary, and a cycle to work scheme. We are committed to diversity, inclusion, equity, and psychological safety, and we welcome applications from everyone.

last updated 35 week of 2026