Engineering Lead

Attio
United Kingdom
Remote

Who this role is best for

Strong fit for senior engineers with team leadership experience who excel in real-time infrastructure or AI-native architecture and can manage cross-functional collaboration.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with proven team leadership in backend or frontend engineering and a track record in cloud architecture design
    — “Experience designing secure, scalable, reliable backend systems
  • Individuals who have led small engineering teams while maintaining technical depth in AI-native or real-time systems
    — “passionate about building incredible teams that will push boundaries
  • Professionals capable of translating customer feedback into technical product decisions with cloud expertise
    — “Lead projects and make product decisions based on interactions with customers

Things to consider

  • Equity in an early-stage company may require long-term commitment beyond standard exit timelines
    — “Equity in an early-stage tech company on an incredible trajectory

How to stand out

  • Highlight cross-stack contributions and specific cloud architecture projects in your resume
    — “Contribute across the stack, bringing to bear your high calibre technical expertise
  • Demonstrate experience leading engineers through team ownership of critical product areas
    — “Recruit and develop a top-class team of engineers that own a critical area
  • Quantify impact of technical decisions on product scale or customer outcomes
    — “Design and evolve our technical architecture to support Attio’s rapidly increasing scale
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · TeamLevel · Lead

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

  • designing secure, scalable backend systems
  • recruiting and developing a top-class team
Typical background
software engineeringteam leadership

Skills & requirements

Required

Backend DevelopmentTeam LeadershipTechnical ArchitectureCloud Architecture

Preferred

Ai-native ArchitectureReal-time Infrastructure

Stack & domain

TypeScriptNode.jsGoGCPReact

About the role

Original posting from Attio via Ashby

Attio is the CRM for agentic revenue. Designed for the most ambitious go-to-market teams, it gives companies the power to understand every customer, automate at scale, and build their go-to-market motion exactly as they need. We've raised $116M from some of the world's best investors: GV (Google Ventures), Redpoint, Balderton, Point Nine, and 01A.

We hire builders who thrive on complex technical challenges, hold themselves to a high bar, and genuinely care about delighting the people who use what they build. The team here brings sharp judgement, real craft, and the drive to do exceptional work. We're obsessed about the details and energized by the frontier.

If you want to do the best work of your career, this is the right place.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Our Engineering team tackles the toughest challenges, so our users never have to. Real-time infrastructure, AI-native architecture, and a frontend that feels effortless - all powered by a team that moves fast, thinks rigorously, and holds an exceptionally high bar for quality.

We’re looking for Engineering Leads who are passionate about building incredible teams that will push boundaries, obsess over details, and reinvent how millions of people work. This is a hands-on role which combines individual technical contribution with leadership of a small, focused team of engineers.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

  • Contribute across the stack, bringing to bear your high calibre technical expertise in either Backend (Typescript/Node.js/Go/GCP) or Frontend (React), to deliver features end-to-end to our customers.
  • Recruit and develop a top-class team of engineers that own a critical area of Attio’s product.
  • Design and evolve our technical architecture to support Attio’s rapidly increasing scale.
  • Lead projects and make product decisions based on interactions with customers.
  • Represent Attio’s Product & Engineering values both internally and externally.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING

  • Experience designing secure, scalable, reliable backend systems.
  • Excellent knowledge of modern cloud architectures (either GCP or AWS).
  • Demonstrable deep expertise with Node.js/Typescript or Go for backend development, or React for frontend development.
  • Experience managing a team of engineers, and working with cross-functional partners.
  • Ability to communicate technical ideas to the wider team and influence decisions.
  • A desire and aptitude for leading and growing a great engineering team.

WHAT WE OFFER

  • Competitive salary of £120,000 to £150,000
  • Equity in an early-stage tech company on an incredible trajectory
  • 25 days holiday plus local public holidays
  • Apple hardware
  • Private medical insurance through AXA
  • Pension contribution through Hargreaves Lansdown
  • Enhanced family leave
  • Team off-site in fun places! (We've been to Barcelona, Lisbon, Malta, and Split so far)

Source: Attio careers (Ashby)

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