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Lead Software Engineer

🗓️ Posted 2026-08-29 United Kingdom Fulltime Hybrid ICT
💰 Salary Not shared 📊 Market 6,250 GBP–8,750 GBP/mo

About the Company

KIRA is a technology company that built the first mobile first insurance platform in Southeast Asia and now leads the region's insurance market. The company is expanding into other financial services such as spending, saving, investing, exchanging, and travel, with a mission to make money smart, reliable and within reach for everyone, leveraging AI to empower users across Asia.

About the Job

The Lead Software Engineer at KIRA owns technical direction and execution for major products and systems. This hands on role involves designing scalable systems, writing code, driving engineering work from idea to production, raising engineering quality, and mentoring engineers while raising the overall engineering bar.

Role & Responsibilities

  • ● Own technical design and execution for major products, systems and engineering initiatives.
  • ● Design scalable, reliable systems across backend, frontend, APIs, databases and infrastructure.
  • ● Build alongside the team through coding, prototyping, code reviews, debugging and production problem solving.
  • ● Drive architecture decisions and trade offs across speed, scalability, reliability, cost and maintainability.
  • ● Turn ambiguous product problems into clear technical solutions and execution plans.
  • ● Raise engineering quality through stronger system design, testing, security, observability and development practices.
  • ● Lead technically critical initiatives and mentor engineers across teams.

Requirements

Experience

  • ● 7+ years of software engineering experience building and shipping production systems.
  • ● Track record of technically leading major engineering projects from design through production.

Skills

  • ● Deep expertise in backend, frontend, distributed systems, APIs, databases or cloud infrastructure.
  • ● Strong system design and architecture skills for complex or high scale systems.
  • ● Strong coding ability and willingness to remain hands on.
  • ● Ability to make sound technical trade offs, influence engineers and solve complex production problems.
  • ● Experience scaling engineering teams, systems or development practices through significant growth.
  • ● Experience operating across multiple products, markets or countries.