Hybrid Senior Staff Engineer

at Naked Wines

• Job title: Senior Staff Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Distributed Systems, Microservices
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Norwich, United Kingdom

About the role

• Senior Staff Engineer responsible for leading system design and architecture at Naked Wines. Pioneering technical development strategies while mentoring engineering teams in a hybrid work environment.

Responsibilities

• **What you'll do:**
• **Lead architecture, system design and technical strategy** across several squads
• Define and embed **technical standards, patterns and best practices**
• Improve software performance, reliability, security and maintainability
• **Oversee engineering workflows, including release processes and architecture review**
• **Act as a technical escalation point for complex issues and cross-team decisions **
• Partner with product and technology leaders to prioritise work and allocate resources
• Facilitate design reviews, workshops and knowledge-sharing sessions
• **Provide hands-on engineering support for high-impact or high-risk projects**
• **Manage, coach and mentor engineers at all levels**
• Lead hiring, onboarding and development for your direct reports
• Join squads when needed to deliver strategically important initiatives
• Help evaluate and adopt new tools, technologies and processes
• Shape cross-discipline architecture and contribute to company-wide technology strategy

Requirements

• **What you'll bring:
• **10+ years of experience in software engineering** (backend, frontend or full-stack)
• Strong knowledge of modern architectures (API-first, microservices, composable)
• Proven **experience leading system design, architecture reviews and technical decision-making**
• Ability to debug, optimise and improve complex distributed systems
• **Experience with modern engineering practices** (CI/CD, automation, DevOps principles)
• **Clear and inclusive communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders **
• Ability to influence decisions, build alignment and collaborate across squads
• **Strong coaching and mentoring capabilities, especially for senior engineers **
• Strong planning, estimation and forecasting skills
• Steady judgement and calmness during high-stakes or time-critical incidents
• A strategic mindset, understanding how technical decisions impact business outcomes
• Breadth across the full technology stack (backend, frontend, mobile)
• Ability to set and guide multi-year technical direction
• Ability to navigate complex organisational environments and build trusted relationships

Benefits

• As part of the Naked family, we want you to know we've got your back. Here are a few of the perks you'll enjoy when you join the team…
• A competitive salary (depending on experience) plus annual bonus opportunity
• Personal Healthcare
• 26 days holiday and bank holidays (you can buy or sell holiday too)
• A £300 annual personal development budget - we're passionate about supporting people to follow their dreams inside or outside of Naked
• £450 every year to treat yourself to some of our delicious wines...all in the name of research, of course
• We want to do our bit for the community and give everyone paid leave to volunteer
• We have wellbeing support and access to mindfulness resources including the Headspace app
• Enhanced parental leave
• Honeymoon leave - newlyweds get an extra week of annual leave
• We like to surprise and delight you with lovely thoughtful gifts including Naked Wine and lots more...