Hybrid Senior Software Engineer – Team Leader

at Omnea

• Job title: Senior Software Engineer – Team Leader
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: £95,000 - £125,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, London, United Kingdom

About the role

• Team Leader responsible for project delivery and quality, overseeing a team at Omnea while working closely with product and customer teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the delivery and quality of all projects executed by your team
• Translate ambiguous or high-level company goals into a clear, prioritised roadmap
• Ensure the team ships quickly, reliably, and to a high technical standard
• Proactively identify delivery risks and resolve them before they impact customers
• Partner closely with Product to define what the team should build and why
• Ensure work is clearly tied back to customer value and company-level metrics
• Respond quickly to customer feedback in collaboration with Sales and Customer teams
• Balance short-term delivery with long-term technical health
• Define and own the metrics that measure your team’s success
• Use data to guide prioritisation, improve delivery speed, and raise quality
• Hold yourself and the team accountable for outcomes
• Run regular 1:1s with all engineers on the team, regardless of formal line management
• Foster strong team morale, psychological safety, and high ownership
• Provide technical and career guidance to engineers on the team
• Work closely with an Engineering Manager (if applicable) on performance and development
• Contribute to onboarding, hiring, and performance processes
• Support cross-team initiatives that raise the bar for engineering at Omnea
• Act as a role model for Omnea’s engineering values and ways of working

Requirements

• Strong experience as a software engineer, with a track record of shipping high-quality systems
• Comfortable owning end-to-end delivery, not just individual tickets
• Able to turn unclear problem statements into structured plans
• Confident working closely with Product and non-engineering stakeholders
• Clear communicator who can align a team around priorities and trade-offs
• Passionate about building great products and great teams

Benefits

• Direct ownership and impact on a fast-growing product
• Close collaboration across Product, Sales, and Customer teams
• High trust, low bureaucracy, and real responsibility
• Opportunity to grow into senior technical or leadership roles