Staff Software Engineer | Console
HybridLondon, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Define architectural direction for Console's platform pillars, setting integration contracts and driving standards adoption across engineering teams. Lead decision-making by authoring RFCs and design documents that shape logged-in product surfaces, while reducing coordination overhead through self-service integration patterns and governed processes. Own the technical evolution of complex cross-cutting systems, including permission infrastructure and navigation architecture, alongside migration paths to contract-tested interfaces. Partner with product leads to align roadmaps and maintain engineering quality by defining DORA targets, contract testing standards, and feature flag practices. Mentor engineers across sub-teams through design reviews and architectural guidance to raise collective technical capability.
Required Qualifications
- Demonstrated ownership of cross-team platform or shared-infrastructure systems, with architectural decisions that other engineering teams depended on and adopted
- Strong full-stack web engineering depth spanning frontend and backend, and the ability to reason about integration contracts and system-level trade-offs across distributed web architectures
- A track record of achieving technical alignment across teams without line management authority, through written proposals, structured facilitation, and clear articulation of trade-offs
- Experience building or governing access control, permissions, or identity systems in an enterprise SaaS context, including an understanding of the commercial and security implications of these decisions
- Comfort operating in genuinely ambiguous ownership spaces: identifying where architectural authority sits, stepping into gaps, and establishing clarity through documentation and shared standards
- Evidence of force multiplication, measurably improving the engineering capability of the people around you through mentorship, standards-setting, or architectural work that reduces others' complexity
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