Lead Software Architect 2c Java Backend in London

Here’s a summary of the role: Lead a strong engineering team, deliver software that matters, and help people do the best work of their careers. This is a hands-on team management role for someone who enjoys combining people leadership, technical fluency, and modern AI-enabled ways of working to build reliable products at scale. You’ll lead engineers building secure, scalable microservices and APIs using TypeScript and AWS. You’ll partner closely with Product, Security, DevOps, and peer engineering leaders to deliver roadmap outcomes, improve team effectiveness, and create an environment where engineers can grow, own their work, and build high-quality systems with confidence. Here’s a breakdown of what you’ll do, not all of it, just the important stuff: Lead, coach, and support a team of engineers, creating clarity around priorities, ownership, expectations, and growth goals. Partner with Product, Security, DevOps, and peer engineering leaders to plan and deliver roadmap commitments while balancing quality, pace, and sustainability. Create a healthy delivery environment by improving team processes, removing blockers, supporting planning and estimation, and reinforcing strong engineering practices. Maintain enough technical depth to guide design discussions, challenge risks, review trade-offs, and support the team in building secure and maintainable systems. Use AI tools and encourage responsible AI-assisted ways of working that improve productivity while protecting privacy, security, quality, and good judgment. Support hiring, feedback, performance conversations, and career development so the team continues to grow in capability and confidence. These are the essentials you’ll need to get an interview: 8 or more years of software engineering experience, including experience leading projects and supporting or managing engineers in an agile product environment. Experience managing teams that build cloud-native microservices in AWS. Strong people leadership skills, with

About the Team Our London-based team builds the backend systems that help ChatGPT scale reliably. We work on infrastructure close to the product, partnering with engineering teams to improve the performance, resilience, and operability of critical user-facing systems. Our work combines backend software engineering with distributed systems and production reliability. We build shared capabilities, improve high-traffic workflows, and make it easier to introduce new product functionality without compromising performance or availability. About the Role This role is for software engineers who want to build and evolve backend systems operating at significant scale. You’ll write production code, design shared infrastructure, and solve technical challenges involving performance, distributed systems, and system reliability. You’ll also own how those systems behave in production: how changes are rolled out, how issues are detected and diagnosed, and how recurring operational problems can be addressed through better software and system design. This is a strong fit for backend engineers who enjoy complex systems problems and want a direct connection between the infrastructure they build and the experience of ChatGPT users. In this role, you will: Design, build, and maintain backend systems supporting high-traffic ChatGPT experiences. Develop shared services, APIs, and infrastructure that help product teams build and launch new capabilities safely. Improve the performance, scalability, and efficiency of production systems as usage and product complexity grow. Build and improve systems for asynchronous processing and other large-scale backend workloads. Lead architectural improvements and infrastructure migrations while maintaining correctness, compatibility, and safe rollout and rollback. Strengthen monitoring, alerting, and diagnostics to detect problems early and reduce customer impact. Participate in on-call, incident response, and root-cause analysis, and turn operational lea

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. We work with the world's most valuable brands and have global reach across 100+ markets, with deep local expertise. Our people are the key to our success. We're committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow. For more information, visit WPP.com. Why we're hiring: We're looking for an Application & Development Security Lead to help shape and strengthen secure software development governance across one of the world's largest technology and creative ecosystems. Working within WPP's Digital Security & Risk Management team, you'll partner with engineering, product and platform teams to govern secure-by-design ways of working, improve software security governance, and provide oversight across modern development environments. This role isn't about writing code day-to-day. Instead, you'll influence governance of how secure software is built, deployed and maintained across cloud-native platforms, APIs, AI-enabled applications and global engineering teams. This is an opportunity to influence software security governance at global scale, helping shape how security supports innovation across one of the world's largest and most diverse technology environments. You'll work alongside talented security and engineering professionals while helping build secure, resilient products and platforms for the future. What you'll be doing: Define an

ABOUT THE ROLE We are a leading streaming global fitness content company with studios around the world including London, revolutionizing the way people access and engage with fitness workouts. Our platform offers a wide range of interactive, live and on-demand fitness content that caters to users of all fitness levels, empowering them to stay fit and healthy from the comfort of their homes. As the Senior Manager of Broadcast Engineering, you will play a pivotal role in our mission to deliver high-quality, seamless, and engaging fitness content to our global audience. You will lead the Broadcast Engineering team based in London, ensuring the smooth operation and optimization of our broadcast infrastructure, content delivery systems, and broadcast equipment. This position reports to the Director of Global Production Technology. YOUR DAILY IMPACT AT PELOTON Oversee and guide the Broadcast Engineering team in designing, implementing, and maintaining an efficient and reliable broadcast studio facility to deliver the best member experience possible Collaborate with global broadcast engineering leads to maintain parity and system wide connectivity between facilities Manage the procurement, installation, and maintenance of all broadcast equipment, ensuring their proper functioning and readiness for live and on-demand fitness classes Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Content Production Operations, IT, and Product, to streamline content workflows, improve efficiency, and enhance the overall broadcast transmission process Stay up-to-date with the latest trends, advancements, and emerging technologies in broadcast engineering and streaming to propose and implement cutting-edge solutions Lead the team in promptly addressing technical issues and incidents, minimizing downtime and disruptions to the streaming service Mentor and guide the Broadcast Engineering team members, fostering a culture of learning, growth, and innovation YO

At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, including the security of your supply chain. The Vendor Risk Management (VRM) product was designed to provide software buyers with tools to evaluate the security of their vendors by inventorying vendors, prioritizing risks, automating security reviews and remediating findings. VRM or Third party Risk Management (TPRM) presents a massive opportunity for Vanta - representing a market of $5-$10B in ARR and a CAGR of 10.8% driven by secular tailwinds in the industry that requires more focussed and deeper scrutiny of the company’s supply chain. As a Senior Software Engineer with full stack focus, you’ll be responsible for driving complex projects across our technical stack and mentor our talented engineering team. Your past experience will be leveraged to accelerate the evolution of our Vendor Risk Management product and help software buyers continuously and comprehensively monitor risks across their vendor supply chain. Our business has found incredible product-market fit and has monetized effectively since the day we signed our first customer. We’re growing at a blistering pace, which presents career-defining opportunities for engineers to accelerate their growth and to contribute to a rapidly-scaling company. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. We’d love for you to join us! Visit our Vanta Engineering Blog to learn more about what our team is working on! What you’ll do as a Senior Software Engineer at Vanta: Lead complex, ambiguous projects end-to-end, partnering wit

At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. The Vendor Monitoring Data team focuses on gathering external data and conducting risk analysis as part of Vanta's Vendor Risk Management (VRM) product. Our work provides comprehensive insights that help customers mitigate third-party risks effectively. As a Senior Fullstack Engineer, you'll drive complex projects across our technical stack while mentoring our talented engineering team. This role offers a unique opportunity to delve into a hyper-focused subject area: external attack surface scanning. You'll tackle unique technical challenges and contribute directly to Vanta's impact by helping customers continuously and comprehensively monitor risks across their vendor supply chain. Our business has found incredible product-market fit and has monetized effectively since the day we signed our first customer. We're growing at a blistering pace, which presents career-defining opportunities for engineers to accelerate their growth and contribute to a rapidly-scaling company. Visit our Vanta Engineering Blog to learn more about what our team is working on! What you’ll do as a Senior Fullstack Engineer, Vendor risk management at Vanta: Identify, scope, and lead large technical projects, laying the groundwork for core products to evolve and scale into highly performant, reliable, and customizable systems Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation Engineer sophisticated monitoring and alerting systems to guarantee the reliability, speed, and integrity of our security data pipeline. Collaborate with security researchers to rapidly deploy new scanning techniques and

Agents have changed the game for software delivery and efficacy. Diligent is the leading GRC platform in the world, and we are racing ahead to take the agents show on the road and work with the customers where they work . The FDE function will lead the change on how we embed AI agents into some of the world’s most complex governance, risk and compliance environments. This is not a support or consultancy role. It is a builder role, for someone who is equally comfortable reading a failing agent trace, running a discovery workshop with a bank’s internal audit team, and translating what they find into a production-grade agentic solution. You will be building AI agents for GRC professionals , not assistants that surface suggestions, but agents that own complex, multi-step workflows end to end . Agents that customers can hand a task to and trust it will come back done. Closing the gap between a promising prototype and something a company Board and ELT depends on is a completely . Here’s a breakdown of what you’ll do Embed directly with major enterprise customers (global banks, regulated corporates) across EU and US ; sitting wi th internal audit teams, risk functions, compliance and governance professionals to understand their real workflows and devise agentic solutions to intelligently automate them creating tremendous efficacy and efficiencies for our customers. Run agent-focused discovery workshops, rapidly prototype agentic solutions, and test them with practitioners; distinguishing between workflows that need an agent and those that need a button. Source, integrate, and move data between enterprise systems as part of live customer implementations — understanding the real data landscape customers operate in and building reliable pipelines to support it . Take agents from prototype t

Fin is the AI Customer Agent company on a mission to help businesses provide perfect customer experiences. Our AI Agent Fin is the highest-performing AI Customer Agent on the market today, enabling businesses to deliver impeccable, always-on customer support across the customer journey – from service, to sales, to ecommerce. Powered by our own AI models, Fin resolves complex customer issues end-to-end across every channel, with minimal set-up and integration. Fin can also be combined with our natively integrated Intercom help desk for one single system that is designed to meet the needs of modern day support teams. Founded in 2011, Fin became one of the fastest growing companies and remains one of the largest private software companies in the world with nearly 30,000 global businesses using our products to transform their customer support. Driven by our core values, we push boundaries, build with speed and intensity, and relentlessly deliver incredible value to our customers. We’re looking for a Senior Product Manager to join our team and help shape the future of business messaging and AI-powered customer engagement. This is a career-defining opportunity to lead a world-class team of engineers, designers, and researchers to deliver products that touch millions of people every day. What will I be doing? Be the Product Manager for the Messenger, Fin’s most important channel Deeply understand the customer problems you’re tackling through research, data, and direct customer interactions — then frame those problems clearly for your team. Manage the roadmap; defining what should be built, when and why - and communicate it to generate alignment and excitement. Collaborate with engineers and designers to imagine, build, and ship solutions, from bold future visions to small, focused iterations. Leverage AI to increase your own efficiency, accelerate product development, and multiply your team’s impact. Evaluate impact through quantitative

Coder is looking for a Senior Sales Development Representative (SDR) to fuel our growth by generating qualified pipeline for our Enterprise Account Managers. You’ll help bring Coder’s Environment-as-a-Service platform to some of the world’s largest companies that are adopting AI-driven development at scale. This role is all about creating opportunities: finding and engaging the right prospects, uncovering the pain points Coder can help with, and setting up qualification calls that set our EAMs up for success. You’ll play a critical role in driving Coder’s outbound motion and helping large organizations build software faster, more securely, and at scale through the collaboration of AI coding agents and human developers. What you’ll do here Generate qualified opportunities for EAMs through targeted outbound prospecting Conduct multi-channel outreach across phone, email, and LinkedIn using tools like SalesLoft, Sales Navigator, ZoomInfo, 6sense, and Nooks Research target accounts and key personas to craft personalized and value-driven messaging Set up qualification calls for EAMs to run and advance through the sales cycle Work closely with EAMs to strategize account outreach and hand off qualified opportunities seamlessly Maintain accurate activity and lead data in CRM and engagement platforms Collaborate with marketing to align messaging and campaigns to drive higher response rates Stay sharp on developer tooling, platform engineering, and AI-driven development trends to speak credibly with prospects What we’re looking for 1-3 years in outbound SDR or BDR roles within SaaS or developer-focused technology companies Proven ability to generate pipeline through outbound cold calling, emailing, and social selling Experience with SalesLoft, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, ZoomInfo, 6sense, and similar prospecting tools Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to clearly articulate technical value propositions Grit, curiosity, and the ability to handle rejection while

Synthesia is the world’s leading AI video platform for business, used by over 90% of the Fortune 100. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in London, with offices and teams across Europe and the US. As AI continues to shape the way we live and work, Synthesia develops products to enhance visual communication and enterprise skill development, helping people work better and stay at the center of successful organizations. Following our recent Series E funding round, where we raised $200 million, our valuation stands at $4 billion. Our total funding exceeds $530 million from premier investors including Accel, NVentures (Nvidia's VC arm), Kleiner Perkins, GV, and Evantic Capital, alongside the founders and operators of Stripe, Datadog, Miro, and Webflow. Location: Europe remote or London hybrid The role: We're looking for a Principal Product Designer (L7) to lead design across Synthesia's most complex and high-impact product surfaces. This is a senior IC role - you won't be managing a team, but you'll be operating at the highest level of individual craft and strategic influence, shaping direction across product domains and setting the standard for what great design looks like at Synthesia. This role sits at the intersection of product strategy, systems thinking, and exceptional craft. You'll define design direction for large, ambiguous problem spaces, anticipate risks before they become blockers, and reframe problems in ways that unlock better outcomes for customers, product teams, and the business. We're building a video platform for everyone - not a specialist tool - and we see a future where Synthesia sits alongside word processors, presentation software, and spreadsheets as a daily staple. Getting there requires design leadership that goes beyond execution: someone who helps the company make the right bets, raises the craft bar across the whole team, and builds the conditions for great design to thrive at scale. In this role you will: Lead large, complex, or

About the Team OpenAI’s Network Security team designs and operates the secure, reliable connectivity behind our offices, labs, campuses, cloud environments, people, and devices. We combine strong network fundamentals with automation, observability, and close partnership across IT, Security, Research, Applied, and business teams. About the Role As a Network Engineer, you will design, operate, troubleshoot, and automate secure, reliable networks across offices, labs, cloud connectivity, and production services. You will balance strategic platform work—architecture, standards, roadmaps, lifecycle planning, and automation—with responsive operations such as incidents, escalations, break/fix, and time-sensitive delivery. We’re looking for broad network engineers who meet users where they are, lead with curiosity, own outcomes end-to-end, move with urgency grounded in security, and iterate with purpose. You will turn operational signals and recurring reactive work into durable systems and standards. In this role, you will: End-to-end ownership of secure enterprise routing, switching, wireless, WAN, network services, and cloud connectivity. A deliberate balance of strategic platform improvement and responsive troubleshooting, change safety, incident response, and operational delivery. Purposeful iteration through software, APIs, Infrastructure-as-Code, Git workflows, testing, and CI/CD that reduces recurring reactive work. You might thrive in this role if you have: End-to-end ownership of secure enterprise routing, switching, wireless, WAN, network services, and cloud connectivity. A deliberate balance of strategic platform improvement and responsive troubleshooting, change safety, incident response, and operational delivery. Purposeful iteration through software, APIs, Infrastructure-as-Code, Git workflows, testing, and CI/CD that reduces recurring reactive work. Compensation, Benefits and Perks This is a position with OpenAI UK Ltd., which controls the hiring and manageme

🚀 About WRITER WRITER is where the world's leading enterprises orchestrate AI-powered work. Our vision is to expand human capacity through superintelligence. And we're proving it's possible – through powerful, trustworthy AI that unites IT and business teams together to unlock enterprise-wide transformation. With WRITER's end-to-end platform, hundreds of companies like Mars, Marriott, Uber, and Vanguard are building and deploying AI agents that are grounded in their company's data and fueled by WRITER's enterprise-grade LLMs. Valued at $1.9B and backed by industry-leading investors including Premji Invest, Radical Ventures, and ICONIQ Growth, WRITER is rapidly cementing its position as the leader in enterprise generative AI. Founded in 2020 with office hubs in San Francisco, New York City, Seattle, Austin, Chicago, and London, our team thinks big and moves fast, and we're looking for smart, hardworking builders and scalers to join us on our journey to create a better future of work with AI. 📐 About this role This is a chance to help shape the next chapter of WRITER's product at a moment when generative AI is redefining how work gets done. As senior staff product manager, you'll report directly to Wil Pong, VP of Product, and operate as a force-multiplier across the product organization — setting direction where it's unclear, aligning stakeholders, and making sure our most critical initiatives ship with excellence. You'll own ambiguous, high-impact problem spaces that span multiple product areas and teams, and you'll be equal parts strategist and operator. One moment you're shaping a multi-quarter roadmap; the next you're rolling up your sleeves to unblock execution. We're looking for someone who thrives at the intersection of customer empathy, technical depth, and business judgment — and who is energized by turning complex, evolving AI capabilities into products customers love. 🦸🏻‍♀️ Your responsibilities Drive high-impact product initiatives end-to-end, from di

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. We work with the world's most valuable brands and have global reach across 100+ markets, with deep local expertise. Our people are the key to our success. We're committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow. For more information, visit WPP.com. Why we're hiring: WPP is embarking on a major 3-year transformation to simplify, modernise, and unify its technology platforms across the group. This change is critical to: Enable cost-effective transformation and operational efficiency Accelerate adoption of AI, data, and digital platforms Ensure consistent delivery of value and benefits across all agencies and markets Minimise disruption and maximise engagement during large-scale change Workday is a cornerstone of this transformation, providing a single, modern system of record for people data and for driving efficiency through our operations and finance functions. By standardising core processes, improving data quality and enabling better insights, Workday supports consistent ways of working, stronger governance and future‑ready capabilities, while creating the foundation for scalable change, automation and AI‑enabled decision making across WPP. We are looking for a Workday Global HCM Support Lead with strong experience in leading a global technology support function. The purpose of the role is to deliver a high-quality support service to our key s

About Pinterest: Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product. Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible. At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI. Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here . Our Content Enablement team sits within the Content organization in the Global Business Organization. We create scalable, trusted guidance that helps content producers create high-quality organic content and supports Pinterest’s priority product and commercial experiences. The Content Enablement Lead will lead the strategy and execution of product-related organic content education, helping organic content producers understand and adopt the Pinterest products that support their success. You’ll champion producer needs, translate product developments into clear guidance and drive measurable adoption. What you’ll do: Set the strategy and direction for scalable, product-related organic content education in complex or ambiguous product areas. Translate audience insights, product knowledge, feedback and data into a clear point of view on organic conten

At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. As a product marketer at Vanta, you’ll help bring this vision to life by defining the new category of trust management, shaping Vanta’s positioning and differentiators externally, and influencing our product and business roadmap. We sit at the intersection of Marketing & Demand Generation, Sales, Product, and Customer Success and revel in connecting all of these teams to drive the business forward. Research, analysis, curiosity, storytelling, and project management are just a few of the attributes of our team – in addition to being open, empathetic, and genuinely nice people. As the EMEA Product Marketing lead, you will be responsible for bringing Vanta’s story to the EMEA audience to help us drive sustainable growth in the market. You’ll craft compelling messaging that’s tailored to the region, based on insights from buyer and market research. You’ll lead product launches to help amplify Vanta’s presence in the region, and partner closely with our product management team to identify growth opportunities for us to continue building our product. Finally, you’ll partner closely with our GTM organisation to expand Vanta’s footprint and accelerate our growth. What you’ll do as a Product Marketing Lead at Vanta: Define and manage go-to-market (GTM) strategy for Vanta’s business in EMEA tailored to the unique opportunities across the EMEA region Develop tailored messaging and positioning for EMEA based on market research and customer insights Partner with our EMEA growth team on the development and execution of targeted marketing campaigns, including tailored messaging and content that effectively engage local audiences and drive