Lead Software Engineer

At Mojo Mortgages we are on a mission to become the largest and most disruptive mortgage broker in the UK. With the support from our family of brands, including Uswitch, Money, Confused, and Zoopla, we're scaling fast and taking the industry by storm. We're not just growing quickly, we're growing exponentially.

We're all about pushing the boundaries, doing mortgages differently, and delivering outstanding service that makes a real difference in people's lives.

We're looking for talented and driven individuals to join our team and help us achieve our mission. If you're passionate about making a positive impact, love to innovate and want to be part of a dynamic and fast-paced team, we want to hear from you.

Now, we’ve some really ambitious growth plans as we look to shake up a trillion-pound sector. And that’ll be down to you.

We are seeking a lead Engineer to help our mission and lead a squad. You'll be working in a cross-discipline team with a modern tech stack and a platform powering multiple brands and implementing everything you know and everything you'll learn to change our operational experience and improve customer care across the whole £1tn industry.

Key Responsibilities Include 

• Hands-on development and lead the development within a squad / team
• Collaborate closely with product and data members within your team to influence the direction and success of the initiatives, ensuring technical solutions align with product objectives and contribute to the overall business impact
• Ensure we continue as product and outcome led teams / squads
• Accountable and responsible for all technical decisions and architectural choices within the squad
• Will have line management responsibility for a few developers (1-3) 
• Leads teams and maintains standards within and across teams.
• Owns multiple domains (logical areas) across the business and ensures alignment with company goals.
• Works with security and compliance to take accountability for their specific domains.
• Proactively identifies dependencies and patterns across the organisation and drives standardisation. Drives practices like ADRs and automated testing
• Provides guidance and support to members across various teams.
• Identifies product and tooling opportunities that drive revenue and overall business impact.

The things we look for in you:

• You want to grow your career and make an immediate impact—we deploy up to 150 times a day.
• You care about the product lifecycle and customer value—they drive our business.
• You're passionate about accessibility, operational metrics, UX, and A/B testing.
• You're pragmatic and deliver effective solutions to business problems based on measurable outcomes.
• You have a strong understanding of web apps and related tech stacks.
• We use React, Node.js, AWS Lambdas, ECS, Serverless, and Typescript. Familiarity with these is helpful, but not required.
• You manage your own CI/CD pipelines and deployments.
• AWS/DevOps knowledge is a plus (Lambdas, API gateways, SQS, ECS, Terraform).
• CLI skills aren't mandatory, but knowing your way around the command line will make things easier with our internal tools