Senior Engineering Team Lead

UK London

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Data

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11 Mar 2026

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R-0004469

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 seeking an accomplished Engineering Leader to spearhead our Data Platform organisation. This is a strategic appointment for a visionary who will architect the future of our data ecosystem. We believe that a world-class engineering culture is built upon the abstraction of operational complexity; therefore, your mandate will be to transform our data into a seamless, self-service engine that serves as a primary differentiator for Dojo. 

In this role, you will guide a high-autonomy team dedicated to engineering the foundational platforms that power our most critical domains: Data, Machine Learning, Experimentation, and AI in Data. You will be responsible for the end-to-end lifecycle of these platforms, ensuring they are not only cost-efficient and highly available but also intuitively designed to reduce the cognitive load on our product engineering teams. By adopting a product mindset toward internal infrastructure, you will empower the broader organisation to innovate at scale, removing systemic friction through sophisticated platforms and robust architectural standards.

What you will do…

  • Cultivate a high-performing environment where we nurture our talent through coaching, feedback, and autonomy.
  • Champion the Data platform by deeply understanding our users' pain points and prioritising solutions that make working with data easy.
  • Design and maintain our core data platform for a self serve platform that empowers product teams to move fast and operate more efficiently .
  • Make key architectural choices and streamline processes to ensure our platform is efficient, secure, and cost-effective.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders and engineering teams to translate complex data needs into robust, scalable technical solutions.
  • Own the delivery of impactful initiatives, balancing the need for speed with the necessity of reliability and long-term health.

What you will bring…

  • A product-first mindset with a relentless focus on solving real problems for people working with and around data.
  • Experience overseeing Software engineering teams that work on building distributed scalable platforms with impact and with a focus on leadership and growth.
  • Deep technical understanding of cloud-native infrastructure, specifically Kubernetes, Identity and Access Management (IAM), Cloud (GCP or AWS) and managed databases.
  • Deep technical understanding around distributed systems, different compute engines, LakeHouse management, orchestration tools like Airflow would be an advantage.
  • Proficiency in designing and maintaining Continuous Integration and
  • Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines and GitOps workflows.
  • Pragmatic decision-making skills, balancing trade-offs between urgency, complexity, and scalability.
  • Proven experience with the modern Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) for data, with hands-on software engineering expertise building large scale data platforms.

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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