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 ÂŁ300 annual personal development budget - we're passionate about supporting people to follow their dreams inside or outside of Naked
ÂŁ450 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...
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