IFS

Lead Software Engineer – Industrial Sustainability Reporting Platform

London, England, United Kingdom · Remote (restrictions not stated) · Full-time

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EmployerIFS
LocationLondon, England, United Kingdom
Work styleRemote (restrictions not stated)
Employment typeFull-time
Employer posted5 days ago

Core Responsibilities

Lead the design, architecture, and implementation of scalable APIs, services, and accessibility-first user interfaces
Deliver AI-native features across both front-end and back-end, spanning carbon accounting, ESG data collection, and sustainability planning capabilities
Drive the evolution of the platform into modular, event-driven, API-first components
Provide technical direction and make sound engineering trade-offs around scalability, maintainability, performance, and product impact
Own reliability and operational excellence, including telemetry, SLOs, error budgets, on-call rotations, incident response, and continuous service improvement
Champion DevOps practices, including CI/CD, deployment automation, monitoring, and application-level operations
Collaborate with Platform Engineers as part of a lean DevOps shared service model, while taking responsibility for application-level DevOps within the team
Mentor engineers, promote engineering best practices, and help raise the technical bar across the team
Champion code quality, documentation, automated testing, performance, security, and maintainability
Take full ownership of the quality of deliverables, including test automation, continuous improvement, and production readiness
Partner closely with Product Management, Design, AI, Platform Engineering, and other engineering teams on product discovery, technical trade-offs, and delivery
Bring a product- and customer-led mindset to solving customer pain points with elegant, scalable engineering solutions
Identify technical risks, performance bottlenecks, and opportunities to improve the platform architecture and engineering ways of working

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Qualifications

Essential

Strong experience in full stack software engineering, with proven capability across both front-end and back-end development
Solid experience with modern front-end technologies, particularly React or similar frameworks
Strong back-end engineering experience, ideally including GoLang or comparable general-purpose programming languages
Experience designing and building scalable APIs, services, and cloud-native applications
Strong understanding of DevOps practices, including CI/CD, deployment, monitoring, automation, and incident response
Experience delivering secure, observable, high-quality production software
Strong focus on code quality, automated testing, documentation, performance, and maintainability
Ability to lead technical design discussions and influence architectural decisions
Effective collaboration and communication skills across Product, Design, Platform, and Engineering teams
Ownership mindset, with accountability for outcomes from design through to production

Desirable

Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP
Experience with event-driven architectures, distributed systems, or microservices
Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL
Experience working in cross-functional product teams
Experience mentoring engineers or contributing to engineering standards
Experience with AI-enabled, data-intensive, sustainability, carbon intelligence, ESG reporting, or enterprise SaaS products
Familiarity with sustainability frameworks and standards (e.g., GHG Protocol, CSRD, SBTi)
Familiarity with observability, reliability engineering, SLOs, error budgets, and production incident management

What We're Looking For

We are looking for a senior engineer who combines strong hands-on engineering with technical leadership. You should be comfortable building across the stack, making architectural decisions, improving engineering practices, and influencing how products are designed, delivered, and operated.

You will be successful in this role if you enjoy solving complex customer problems, building scalable cloud-native systems, collaborating across disciplines, and helping teams deliver high-quality software that has real-world impact on industrial decarbonization.

We embrace flexibility and hybrid work opportunities to support diverse needs and lifestyles, while also valuing inclusive workplace experiences. By fostering a sense of community, we drive innovation, strengthen connections, and nurture belonging. Our commitment ensures you can work in a way that suits you best, while also engaging with colleagues to share ideas and build meaningful relationships.

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