This role also extends to overseeing engineering practices and development across the wider Chapter, plays a pivotal role as a mentor and thought leader, contributes to the growth and knowledge-sharing practice within the broader professional community.
Your responsibilities
Lead domain-level technical initiatives, resolving complex problems while staying hands-on in the codebase and producing both detailed technical work and high-level architecture.
Collaborate with engineering and product leaders to simplify domain complexity and evolve the ecosystem.
Drive technical alignment and engineering maturity across the domain and organisation via the Chapter structure.
Mentor and lead the engineering community, improving delivery speed, quality, and performance.
Continuously strengthen architectural, engineering, and security health, while nurturing engineering culture and innovation across the domain and portfolio, partnering with Engineering Director, Product Director, Principal Engineer, Architecture, and Engineering Managers.
Staff-level engineering background with deep expertise in .NET and React, and a proven record delivering large-scale, production-grade systems using A/B testing.
Experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems on AWS, including secure development, data protection, compliance, and enterprise architecture.
Strong modern frontend expertise: component architecture, design systems, responsive design, accessibility (WCAG), and client-side state management.
Hands-on experience with enterprise/SaaS web platforms using microservices and micro-frontends, covering performance (Core Web Vitals, rendering, code splitting, CDN), API integration (REST, OpenAI, Bedrock), and service scalability/resilience.
Expertise in LLM-powered web system design (state, caching, guardrails, observability) and strong communication skills for mentoring engineers and setting technical direction across teams.
Your benefits
We’re a community here that cares as much about your life outside work as how you feel when you’re with us. Because your job shouldn’t take over your life, it should enrich it. Here are some of the benefits we offer:
29 days holiday allowance + bank holidays
Private medical and dental healthcare
Matching pension contribution of 4 or 5% (after 3 years of service up to 10%)
24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
Life Assurance Cover
Cycle to work scheme
Hybrid working model (3 days working from the office)
Volunteering days
and you can bring your dog to the office on Mondays and Fridays!
Our commitment
Equal opportunities are important to us. We believe that diversity and inclusion at The Stepstone Group are critical to our success as a global company, so we want to recruit, develop, and keep the best talent. We encourage applications from everyone, regardless of background, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, ethnicity, belief, age, family or parental status, and any other characteristic. As a global business we further our DEI and sustainability progress by working with national and international bodies and are proud to have been recognised for our work - both locally and internationally, including:
Armed Forces Covenant: Silver Award, Employer Recognition Scheme
EcoVadis: Bronze Award
Fertility Friendly Employer, accredited by Fertility Matters at Work
RIDI (Recruitment Industry Disability) Awards: Inclusive Technology Award 2024
Stonewall: Gold Award
Stonewall: Top 100 Workplace Equality Index (85)
