About the role

  • Staff Engineer at Naked Wines leading technical strategies across engineering squads. Focused on architecture, system design, and mentoring engineers to enhance quality and performance.

Responsibilities

  • Lead architecture, system design and technical strategy across several squads
  • Define and embed technical standards, engineering patterns and best practices
  • Solve complex technical challenges, improve performance and maintain system reliability
  • Provide hands-on engineering support for complex or high-risk initiatives
  • Strengthen software security, scalability, quality and maintainability
  • Manage, coach and mentor engineers at multiple levels
  • Contribute to hiring, onboarding and development of engineers
  • Work closely with Staff Engineers, Product Managers and cross-functional squads
  • Evaluate and adopt new tools, technologies and processes
  • Communicate design decisions clearly and create high-quality documentation

Requirements

  • 10+ years’ experience in software engineering (backend, frontend or full-stack)
  • Strong background in modern architectures (API-first, microservices, composable)
  • Proven experience in system design, architectural decision-making and technical leadership
  • Ability to debug, optimise and enhance complex distributed systems
  • Familiarity with modern engineering practices (CI/CD, automation, DevOps principles)
  • Clear and inclusive communication skills across technical and non-technical groups
  • Experience coaching engineers, leading technical discussions and fostering alignment
  • Strong judgement, resilience under pressure and ability to balance hands-on work with leadership
  • A strategic mindset — understanding how technical choices influence business outcomes

Benefits

  • 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...

Job title

Staff Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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