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About the Role

Lead engineering on a high-volume online marketplace undergoing a major technology transformation, including migration to AWS and a version 2 build. Set technical direction for a shift to a service-based architecture on AWS using TypeScript, JavaScript, and Python, while ensuring continuous delivery. This role requires a hands-on individual with broad expertise in cloud, architecture, data, auth, front-end, and APIs, who has prior experience building service-based platforms in AWS. The environment is demanding and fast-paced, requiring quick productivity.

Responsibilities

Set technical direction for the shift to a service-based architecture on AWS.
Keep delivery moving during the technology transformation.
Set and hold engineering standards.
Communicate technical decisions with authority.
Lead delivery in a fast-moving, complex environment.

Requirements

Principal-level engineering breadth across cloud, architecture, data, auth, front-end, and APIs.
Track record of building service-based platforms in AWS.
Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform or CDK).
Proficiency in writing TypeScript, JavaScript, and Python.
Ability to read and work with PHP (Laravel).
Comfortable working in English, written and spoken.
Retail or e-commerce background (nice to have).
Experience leading through a major re-architecture or cloud migration (nice to have).
Experience with GenAI or agentic workflows in engineering practice (nice to have).

Skills

AWS
TypeScript
Python
JavaScript
PHP
Laravel
Cloud
Architecture
Data
Auth
Front-end
APIs
Infrastructure as Code
Terraform
CDK
GenAI
Agentic workflows

Location

Edinburgh
Newcastle
Leeds
Manchester
London

Work Type

Contract
Outside IR35
Fully flexible working (home, office, or mix)

Experience Level

Principal-level

About the Company

The platform is a genuinely large-scale marketplace with very few platforms handling product catalogue or transaction volume at this level.
The roadmap includes agentic AI workflows, integrated retail media, and infrastructure work targeting cost and performance at high volume.
The work leans research-led rather than routine due to the scale and novelty of the challenges.
This is a fast-paced scale-up environment on a complex platform.