Senior Engineering Team Lead - AI

UK London

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Horizon Engineering

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29 Sept 2025

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R-0004180

We’re reinventing payments.
In less than four years, Dojo disrupted the market to become the largest and most loved acquirer in the UK. Our payments infrastructure, purpose-built for in-person commerce, is game changing.

Now, over 150,000 customers across four countries choose to transact billions with us every year.
But we’re just getting started.

Our people are the driving force behind our success. They are our greatest investment and our ultimate competitive advantage. We hire exceptional people and give them the autonomy, trust, and ownership to thrive. The results take care of themselves.

 

The role  

We are looking for an Engineering Team Lead to own a number of individual workstreams, and provide support & mentorship to the people in their team. They will produce high-quality software that solves real-world problems in secure, innovative and supportable ways. The environment will be dynamic and often exploratory, so a desire to drive results in periods of uncertainty will be required. The role is focused around leading teams of early career individuals, so mentorship, support and guidance will be key attributes in ensuring the success of both the role and the team, with a view to build them into the leaders of tomorrow.

Horizon Engineering is a place for innovation, impact and opportunity. You’ll be creating & utilising tooling across the generative AI space, working with teams of talented graduates to ideate, co-create and operate solutions across a broad range of domain areas, both internal and external.  We are creating the foundations of generative AI at Dojo to ensure safe & scalable adoption across the business.

 

What you will do

  • Lead the architecture and design of efficient and maintainable systems, supporting the appropriate scale for the solution.
  • Own the software development process, ensuring software is delivered with quality, predictability, and consistency.
  • Mentorship, team building, performance management, and conflict resolution of the individuals in your team.
  • Grow the people you support into future leaders by providing opportunities for them to excel, with your support.
  • Lead the delivery of business objectives in collaboration with peers, stakeholders, product, and technical management.
  • Build, run and measure PoC solutions, sharing the outputs with the wider business and using the data to better inform future designs.

What you will bring

  • Demonstrated leadership experience, with ideally 2+ years managing people and fostering growth
  • Proficiency in modern agile development practices, including code reviews, continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD).
  • Knowledge of microservices architecture, experience with Kubernetes, event-driven systems and cloud infrastructure (we use GCP in this space).
  • Open-ness with regard to language, ideally some experience of Python, .NET, Golang and/or Java.
  • Strong mentorship skills to foster growth, bridge skill gaps, and enhance collaboration, ensuring the team success and individual development across all levels.
  • An attitude of leading by example, consistently demonstrating and promoting the values we expect from every member of the engineering team.

Dojo home and away

We believe our best work happens when we collaborate in-person. These “together days” foster communication, drive innovation and spark our brightest ideas.

That's why we have an office-first culture. This means working from the office 4+ days per week.

With offices across Europe, we know a thing or two about staying dynamic. Need deep focus? Head to a quiet zone. Big ideas? Collaboration spaces have you covered. Just here for a catch-up? Our social hubs make it easy. Do work that counts, in spaces made for you.


Question: what’s curious, relentless, and customer obsessed?

If you’re keen to know the answer, you’re a third of the way to meeting our Dojo values.

If the following speak to you, let’s talk:

  • 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. 

 

Diversity, equity, and inclusion at Dojo

From local bakeries to well-known eateries, Dojo payments serve over 150,000 places across the UK. 

And something that’s fundamental to creating relevant, innovative products at Dojo is to build teams to reflect the diversity of the businesses we serve.

Our drive to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion is closely linked to helping employees thrive and innovating for better customer experiences.

If you care about your work, you’re curious, and you think customer-first, you have a place at Dojo.

To make sure you’re the best you can be throughout the recruitment process, let us know if you need any extra adjustments to help you thrive. 

 

Visit dojo.careers to find out more about our benefits and what it’s like to work at Dojo, or check out our LinkedIn and Instagram pages. 

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