Matchtech
Lead Engineer
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Lead Platform Engineer London or remote (UK) Permanent, full-time Competitive salary + equity
A fast-growing AI product business is building an automation platform used by UK service-led organisations to run time-critical operational workflows. The product integrates into existing systems (including CRM-style platforms) and uses AI-driven workflows and a voice interface to handle inbound enquiries and trigger actions across the operation. They’re hiring a Lead Platform Engineer to work directly with the Head of Engineering and take real ownership across the platform. This is a hands-on role for someone who sets the technical bar, builds the hardest parts of the system, and helps a small team ship reliably.
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What you’ll be doing Architecting, designing and building backend services and APIs end-to-end, from early design through to production Designing and maintaining microservice and event-driven architectures to support real-time workflows Leading a small team: setting direction, reviewing work, and being accountable for what ships Setting the standard for how the team builds with agentic AI (tools, workflows and patterns) Contributing to technical strategy and architecture decisions alongside the Head of Engineering Building secure, performant, maintainable systems and reliable data pipelines as the product scales
What we’re looking for 5–8+ years hands-on engineering experience (SaaS, automation platforms, or AI products ideal) Deep expertise in Node.js and NestJS, with strong experience designing RESTful APIs and microservice-based systems Comfortable operating production systems on Kubernetes and Google Cloud Experience with Postgres and MongoDB; interest/experience with vector databases and RAG is a plus (Qdrant etc.) Experience leading engineers (or very close to it) while staying hands-on and shipping Enjoys ownership, ambiguity, and moving quickly in a startup environment
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Tech stack NestJS (backend), Next.js (frontend), monorepo deployed into microservices, Google Cloud + Kubernetes, Postgres + MongoDB + Qdrant.
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