Lead Software Engineer
Posted 8 hours 38 minutes ago by Ravio Technologies Ltd.
We help many of the world's most innovative and ambitious companies build stronger teams and reach their goals through better compensation. Our real-time data platform brings compensation into the modern age, tracking the market across all compensation types from salary to equity and benefits.
The roleWe're looking for a Lead Software Engineer to join our engineering team and play a major role in our technical leadership during a significant platform shift. Ravio is moving from a traditional SaaS posture to a platform built around agents - parent agents fronting our compensation data, specialist agents underneath, durable workflows, an MCP-based tool layer, and an eval harness to maintain consistency. You'll own architecture and technical design across the stack: the customer-facing web app, the agentic platform, and the shared infrastructure connecting them.
You'll bring system design depth that holds up under load, failure, and coordination across services and teams. You'll continue to raise the bar on code quality, reliability, and the technical decisions that shape what we ship. This is a hands on individual contributor role - leading technical decision making and tackling the hardest problems we encounter. There are also upcoming opportunities to move into management as our company continues to grow, if you wish.
Requirements8+ years commercial engineering experience, with a track record of technical leadership during platform shifts - owning architecture, driving decisions, raising the bar through code review and design review, especially where LLM assisted engineering has become the standard.
System design depth as your headline strength. Concrete: durability and consistency under failure, multi service orchestration, data platforms, performance and cost at scale, observability and ops fluency.
Senior level fluency in TypeScript and Node, comfortable across the backend (PostgreSQL, GraphQL or HTTP APIs, GCP shaped infra).
Comfortable owning code in a distributed monorepo with multiple deployable services.
Ships fast under product pressure - we're moving from PMF to scale and the role needs that pace.
Production experience with agentic systems - tool calling, multi step orchestration, LLM evals.
Workflow engines (Temporal, Cadence, Step Functions) - even if not Temporal specifically.
MCP, Anthropic SDK, or other LLM platform work.
Building developer platforms, internal SDKs, or framework shaped surfaces.
Eval driven development, prompt engineering at scale, LLM judge harnesses.
React or another modern frontend framework.
- Frontend
- React
- TypeScript
- GraphQL (Apollo Client)
- Playwright
- Jest
- Storybook + Chromatic
- Mantine
- GCP (Cloud Run)
- Backend
- TypeScript
- PostgreSQL
- GraphQL Yoga
- Jest
- Auth0
- GCP (Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage + more)
- AI / agentic platform
- Opus/GPT/Gemini and many more model families
- Vertex/Bedrock/Foundry - cloud deployed models
- Temporal - durable workflow engine
- MCP servers as the tool layer
- AI gateway (Bifrost) for logging, routing, governance
- Eval harness (Phoenix) - golden queries, LLM as judge
- Memory layer (Neo4j)
- All the other good stuff
- GitHub Actions
- Datadog
- Figma
- Slack
- Linear
From your perspective, there are three critical things to look for when evaluating this role: a company going places, a strong engineering culture, and a role that gives you a true opportunity to have impact as a technical leader.
There's a lot happening at Ravio right now. We've just raised our Series A led by tier 1 US investors Spark Capital, and have acquired the benchmarking business of our competitor - Compete. We've got new joiners starting almost every week, and we're rapidly expanding outside of our core markets in Europe. We need you to help us maintain our velocity and continue to build a scalable org and product.
Our core benchmarking product is at product market fit, and we have a couple of new modules in the 0 1 phase. This means we're at an exciting stage that involves 0 to 1 building in some areas, and building for scale in others. That's true across the business - we're continuing to expand and experiment, while systemising and doubling down on what is already working well from our seed phase.
Beyond the core product, we're building Ravio's agentic platform - parent agents fronting our compensation data with specialist agents underneath, durable workflows on Temporal, an MCP based tool layer, and an eval harness to maintain consistency. It's a platform engineering effort with the same care and rigour we apply to the rest of the product. A Lead engineer joining now would help shape the foundations of how Ravio's product is built for the next phase.
Why join Ravio?- Shape an agentic platform from its early stages, with senior engineering peers and a high autonomy bar.
- Opportunity for fast tracked professional growth at a scaleup backed by world class investors alongside a smart, energetic team.
- Blend of IC work and leadership, giving you both hands on impact and career growth.
- Remote friendly, flexible work culture with a high degree of ownership.
- While we're very focused, we also know how to have fun in the process.
- Build a meaningful product that helps people get paid fairly and competitively in their careers.
- £110,000 - £150,000
- Company ownership (everyone gets a meaningful equity stake in Ravio)
- 37 days paid time off (25 days holiday + 4 wellness days + 8 public holidays)
- Up to 6% pension matching scheme
- £60 a month wellness allowance
- £500 per year Learning and Development budget
- Private healthcare cover with AXA
- Personal worldwide travel insurance
- Income protection insurance
- 16 weeks fully paid birthing parent leave, followed by 4 weeks at 50% pay. For non birthing parents, we offer 8 weeks fully paid leave.
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