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Engineering Lead - Comparison Team (Data Focused)

London, gbFull-time£105k–£135k2026-10-30 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid

Core

Lead the Comparison team to build intelligent, self-healing scrapers and data pipelines that collect competitor pricing data for customer-facing comparison tools and internal strategy.

Role type

Senior Engineering Lead (Data & Backend)

Builds

Scalable scraping platform, data pipelines, public Comparison API, and customer-facing comparison experiences (web, widget, calculator).

Domain

Fintech / Competitive Intelligence / Data Engineering

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Team leadership and mentoring, scalable resilient system design, Java and Spring Boot, event-driven microservices (Kafka), relational databases, web scraping and data validation, LLM application in production, observability and data quality.

Preferred skills

A/B testing and experimentation, UX prioritization, breaking down complex projects.

Technologies

Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, React, Next.js, LLMs.

Responsibilities

Lead, coach, and mentor engineers; own the technical strategy and delivery of the intelligent scraping platform; ensure reliability and accuracy of the competitor data platform; partner with Product, Marketing, and Compliance teams; join on-call rotation for critical services.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities.