Flock provides connected fleet insurance for commercial vehicle operators, including courier and haulage businesses. Its telematics-driven products use vehicle and driving data to support safer driving, help reduce accidents, and inform insurance pricing. Flock offers fleet insurance solutions, product demonstrations, and broker partnerships, including haulage fleet cover backed by Admiral.
Senior Engineering Lead at Flock — London Hybrid
Co-lead Flock’s Acquisition engineering team and deliver AI-enabled fleet insurance products. Build TypeScript and AWS serverless systems that support growth and data-driven road safety.
Description
- Co-lead the Acquisition engineering team with the product manager
- Take ownership of delivery, operational resilience, developer experience and technical quality
- Develop products that support Flock’s growth and shape how fleets discover and select the company
- Write reliable, thoroughly tested TypeScript and manage delivery through production
- Turn business objectives into technical scope, success measures and actionable delivery plans
- Build and contribute to RESTful APIs through API Gateway
- Work with AWS serverless services including Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, EventBridge, DynamoDB, S3 and CloudWatch
- Provision and operate cloud infrastructure with tools such as Terraform or CDK
- Guide initiatives from initial scoping and planning through delivery and impact evaluation
- Support engineers through code reviews, paired development and design conversations
- Advance developer experience, CI/CD, observability, release processes and delivery rhythm
- Optimise AWS systems across reliability, performance and cost
- Guide the team’s adoption of AI coding assistants and agent-based workflows while applying sound engineering judgement
- Set higher technical standards and provide direction without direct line-management responsibility
Requirements
- Demonstrated ability to co-lead with a product manager while jointly owning delivery, quality and outcomes
- Strong practical software engineering skills
- Proficiency delivering well-tested TypeScript applications in production
- Substantial experience with AWS and serverless services such as Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, EventBridge, DynamoDB, S3 and CloudWatch, or comparable cloud platforms
- Practical technical judgement across reliability, observability, performance and cost
- Experience strengthening engineering practices through reviews, pairing, design discussions and long-term technical leadership
- Clear communication skills, including the ability to turn business goals into technical plans and scope
- Experience improving developer tooling, CI/CD, releases and team delivery practices
- Daily experience with AI development tools and the ability to support responsible team adoption
- Experience influencing technical direction outside the immediate team and collaborating with senior stakeholders and other leads
- Working knowledge of infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or CDK
- Evidence of improving operational resilience through observability, runbooks and automated recovery
- Hands-on experience designing event-driven distributed systems and handling eventual consistency at scale
- Experience in a fast-moving, product-led environment where commercial outcomes guide decisions
- A record of creating an environment where engineers can take ownership and develop
Benefits
- 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
- Share Incentive Plan
- Workplace pension
- Private medical insurance with dental, optical and mental health support options
- Salary sacrifice schemes covering holiday purchase, technology, gym membership, cycle to work, electric vehicles and family private medical insurance
- Enhanced parental leave and pay
- £1,000 contribution toward relevant professional qualifications
- £500 each year for learning and development
- Three paid learning and development days
- Hybrid working, usually three days per week from the Central London office, with flexibility for longer commutes