Senior Engineering Team Lead, Dojo
Platform
4+ days a week in office
We empower businesses to thrive in the experience economy.
Be an early applicant
We empower businesses to thrive in the experience economy.
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
4+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower businesses to thrive in the Experience Economy, by creating the tools and technology that turn transactions into meaningful relationships.
Role
Who you are
- A proven track record of leading and developing high-performing engineering teams, providing mentorship, support, and opportunities for growth
- Strong knowledge of software engineering best practices, system design, cloud infrastructure, and expertise in automated deployments through declarative configurations, leveraging modern strategies such as GitOps or blue-green deployments
- Experience and empathy of a backend engineer building applications within a service orientated architecture in Golang, Java or .Net
- Expertise in platform engineering, including Kubernetes, distributed systems like Kafka, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, or Crossplane
- A deep understanding of developer experience, with a focus on improving workflows, reducing cognitive load, and enabling faster feedback loops
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to advocate for technical solutions and drive adoption across diverse teams
- You’re curious. You have a real desire to learn and create
- You’re relentless. You keep going even when it’s easier not to
- You’re customer-obsessed. You know how important customers are to what you do
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Senior Engineering Team Lead who is passionate about people leadership and cultivating high-performing teams
- In this role, you will guide and mentor a team of talented engineers, empowering them to excel both technically and professionally while creating an environment where collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning thrive
- Your leadership will focus on developing and supporting your team, ensuring they are engaged, motivated, and aligned with business goals
- You will champion best practices, facilitate career growth, and cultivate a culture of psychological safety where engineers feel confident experimenting and pushing boundaries
- Beyond team leadership, you will also play a critical role in delivering scalable, user-friendly products and frameworks that enhance developer productivity and system resiliency
- Your ability to connect technical vision with people development will be key to making a lasting impact across the engineering organisation
- Lead and inspire a team of engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous growth while providing mentorship and career development support
- Shape the future of developer enablement, driving the adoption of tools and frameworks that simplify access to centralised infrastructure empowering creators to build with speed and confidence in collaboration with our Staff Platform Engineers
- Optimise engineering workflows, by establishing clear processes for managing ongoing maintenance, operational tasks, and long-term projects, ensuring the right balance between sustaining reliability and driving innovation. This includes refining capacity planning, managing on-call rotations, and streamlining incident response
- Collaborate across teams, working closely with engineers and stakeholders to align platform capabilities with business needs and maximise impact across the organisation
- Stay at the cutting edge, exploring and advocating for modern infrastructure practices, cloud-native technologies, and industry best practices to push the boundaries of developer experience
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Dojo has been around for over ten years, after starting in 2009. In that time they have very much established themselves as a go-to partner for small businesses using card payments, allowing them to take control over the end-to-end payments process.
Their customer first strategy has made them a market leader, meaning they are handling more than £20bn in transactions each year. Since launching Dojo has grown to team of more than 950 and they have opened offices throughout the UK. The company has become profitable, and in the year ahead are looking to grow the team further and expand internationally, including in Ireland, Spain, France, and Italy.
The payments platform sector has become increasingly competitive as more and more entries to the market are trying to find niche spaces to play in. However, Dojo have not only established a foothold but have managed to grow their small business clientele over the years. They have set themselves apart with their customer-first approach, building their product specifically to address the needs of customers and continuing to keep customers at the centre of every decision.
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Supportive management
"Management goes to great lengths to make sure we have what we need to succeed - training, projects which support personal growth, informal sessions,..."
Company benefits
- Private medical, dental, and life assurance
- 6 months paid maternity leave and 10 weeks paid paternity (baby bonding) leave
- Employee assistance programme, mental health champions, and our mental health support platform, Spill.
- Peppy, a specialist health app that provides support for your health, including menopause, fertility, women’s health, and men’s health
- GymFlex and Fitness classes
- 25 days holiday, and we'll increase this one day for each year you're at Dojo
- Holiday trading, up to 5 days per year
- Birthday Leave
- 4 weeks fully paid sabbatical after 4 years of continuous service
- Women in Leadership Mentorship Programme
- Learning & Development opportunities with Career Pathways
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Electric car leasing
- Charitable giving
- Dojo socials
- Dog friendly offices
- In-office barista
Company values
- Customer Obsessed - We focus on the details to help customers thrive
- Curious - We have an insatiable to desire to learn and innovate
- Relentless - We persevere even when it’s easier not to
Company HQ
Paddington, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Jan Farrarons
(Co-founder)Was a Director of Global Payments inc before founding JudoPay, Capital on tap and Paymentsense
George Karibian
(Co-founder)Serial entrepreneur. Also founded Euroffice, XLN Telecom, Capital on Tap and Judo Payments
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Dojo
- Dojo’s 150,000+ customers reflect the diversity of the UK High Street. Building teams with diverse backgrounds that are representative of the customer base which we serve is fundamental to creating innovative products at Dojo. Whoever you are, if you’re passionate about your work, curious, relentless and customer-obsessed, you have a place at Dojo.
- Our employee-led communities, including The Black Experience, Women at Dojo, and Pride at Dojo, exist as safe spaces of respect and privacy led and driven by individuals rather than the People Team. Anyone can set one up.
- We partner with ColorInTech & Black Tech Fest to ensure wide access to talent.
- Learn more about Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Dojo at https://www.dojo.careers/our-culture/diversity-equity-inclusion/
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