Lead Engineer, Searchland
£100-120k
1-2 days a week in office (Old Street, London)
Off-market site finding for the property sector
Be an early applicant
Off-market site finding for the property sector
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
£100-120k
1-2 days a week in office (Old Street, London)
21-100 employees
Company mission
To deliver new homes and infrastructure seamlessly through sourcing and analysing off-market development opportunities.
Role
Who you are
- Right to Work in the UK
- 7+ years in software engineering with at least 2–3 years in a lead, staff, or senior-plus role
- Demonstrable experience building and scaling SaaS platforms
- Experience leading technical architecture or system design initiatives
- Experience mentoring or managing engineers
Desirable
- Working in PropTech or data-heavy product environments
- Prior experience building or scaling engineering teams
- Familiarity with UK planning, property, or geospatial data
What the job involves
- Provide architectural oversight across frontend, backend, data infrastructure, and platform components
- Set engineering standards and champion best practices in reliability, scalability, and maintainability
- Lead complex technical design discussions, ensuring trade-offs between speed, scope, and scale are well balanced
- Shape Searchland’s technical roadmap in partnership with product and data leaders
- Mentor senior and mid-level engineers, supporting growth through coaching, pairing, and design reviews
- Foster a positive engineering culture built on autonomy, trust, continuous learning, and pragmatic delivery
- Support multidisciplinary collaboration across data, design, and product teams
- Lead by example with high-quality contributions across the full stack
- Develop performant, accessible front-end features using React (Vite) + Tailwind
- Design and ship scalable APIs using Node.js, Express, and tRPC
- Maintain and improve PostgresQL database and query performance
- Work closely with our data team to evolve Elasticsearch-driven architectures
- Own delivery of complex projects from discovery through deployment and monitoring
- Work closely with product to ensure technical input shapes roadmap and feature direction
- Translate complex technical challenges into clear, actionable insights for non-technical stakeholders
- Proactively identify opportunities to improve product performance, reliability, and developer experience
Application process
- Initial asynchronous video assessment (Willo) and follow up with our internal HR Team
- Pre prepared technical task (React + Tailwind + tRPC + PostgreSQL) with a walkthrough & system design interview with a Senior Engineer
- Technical task (Potentially in person depending on location)
- Final interview with the Chief Product Officer
Salary benchmarks
Our take
SearchLand’s platform allows property developers to source off market sites by linking disparate data such as ownership information, planning records, local policy restraints, and prices, then contact landowners directly.
While there are a few platforms with this depth of information available, SearchLand is banking on its searchability to set it apart, letting users search only for plots that meet their criteria if they wish.
Launched in 2021, SearchLand’s emergence comes at a time when the property market is under increasing pressure to become more tech and data driven, and investment in Proptech skyrocketing. Indeed, SearchLand has recently secured funding itself in a bid to drive sales of its nascent platform.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
20% female employees
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Nov 2022
$3.1m
SEED
Nov 2021
$0.3m
SEED
Total funding: $3.4m
Company benefits
- Hybrid work model (office and remote working)
- Freedom to take ownership of your work
- £500 personal growth fund
- 33 days holidays (incl BH) & unlimited unpaid holiday days
- Lunch on the 1st week of the month
- Monthly team building activities
- Team activities 1st week of the month
- Awards for Recognition every 6 months
Company values
- Focus on the user
- Fast is better than slow
- Work seriously, dress casually
- Be curious, learn and think big
- Have backbone, disagree and commit
- New ideas overpower hierarchy
- It’s a team effort, everyone is valued
- You choose your path of progression
Company HQ
London, UK
Leadership
Hugh Gibbs
(Co-Founder)Before co-founding SearchLand they worked as a freelance Planning and Property Geographical Information Systems (GIS) Consultant, then joined Tunbridge Wells Borough Council as a Planning Policy GIS Officer.
Archie Kennedy-Dyson
(Co-Founder & CTO)Co-founded online donation platform GiveThree in 2015, before co-founding and serving as CTO of WalkIn, a restaurant booking platform, now known as WalkUp by Dojo.
Arthur Goodhart
(Co-Founder & Head of Data)Before co-founding SearchLand they worked as a Data Scientist for nuron, a dual purpose waste monitoring and fibre infrastructure company.
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