Software Engineering Team Lead

Belfast, Northern Ireland💼 Full-time💰 $90,000–$90,000🗓 2026-05-25 → 2026-08-11

Core

Designing and building scalable backend systems, APIs, and microservices for AI-powered products used by enterprise customers globally.

Role type

Hands-on Engineering Team Lead (Backend)

Builds

Scalable backend systems, APIs, and microservices

Domain

Enterprise software, AI products, Cloud-native

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Backend engineering, distributed systems, API design, cloud platforms, Kubernetes, Node.js, TypeScript, Java, .Net, Python

Preferred skills

People leadership, mentoring, technical curiosity, learning new technologies

Technologies

Node.js, TypeScript, GCP, Kubernetes

Responsibilities

Designing scalable backend systems, building APIs and microservices, guiding and mentoring a small engineering team

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC transitioning to management

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About MCS Group

Our client is a leading RegTech and tax technology scale up headquartered in London that builds automation platforms used by banks, financial institutions and enterprise organisations to manage complex regulatory and tax reporting across multiple jurisdictions. Their technology helps clients stay compliant with fast-changing legislation by translating regulation into scalable, automated workflows and platform capabilities. As the business continues to grow and onboard larger enterprise clients, they are expanding their regulatory product capability and are looking for a regulatory-focused Prod