Backend Engineering Team Lead

About Netcraft Netcraft is the global leader in cybercrime detection and disruption. We’re a trusted partner for three of the four largest companies in the world and many large governments. We've blocked over 225 million cyber-attacks to date, and we take down around 33% of the world's phishing attacks. Our purpose and passion are focused on just one thing: protecting the world from cybercrime. That passion shapes how we work, too. We’re proud of our talented team and the value each person brings, and we’ve built a workplace where people feel supported and inspired. From strong benefits and wellness programs to meaningful collaboration and team connection. The Role We’re looking for a Backend Engineering Team Lead to establish and lead a new backend team responsible for several key Netcraft products, including: • The Integration Layer , which enables customers to integrate their SIEM platforms with Netcraft data • NSI , which supports engagement with criminals conducting conversational scams at scale • The Web and SSL Server Survey • Spam , which analyses emails from multiple sources to identify phishing and scam activity These products are a mixture of legacy platforms that produce key data supporting Netcraft systems and new products that support our customer base. You’ll be a technical leader with expertise across a varied stack, with the commercial acumen to understand how to modernise legacy products as well as commercialise new products. You will build a new team to manage and improve these products, contributing code, demonstrating best practice, and managing an exciting delivery roadmap. You’ll be: • Working with Product and Design colleagues to evaluate each of your products, determining where immediate improvements can be made and helping to develop the long-term strategy for each • Operating with autonomy, taking the initiative to solve problems and recognising the importance of adhering to demanding delivery timelines • Managing requirements from key stakeholders and customers, understanding what needs to be done based on business needs without necessarily needing to be told • Prioritising, refining, and sequencing the team’s workflow while retaining approximately 30–50% of your time for hands-on engineering • Deeply embedded in conceiving and executing engineering solutions, creating performant systems and services to delight our customers • Upholding high engineering standards with a demonstrable commitment to code quality, a test-driven approach, and a modern continuous integration/continuous deployment delivery flow • Well-versed in how AI-first development techniques can materially boost productivity • Responsible for building and leading a high-performing team of talented and enthusiastic engineers What You’ll Need to Be Successful • Strong and demonstrable leadership skills, with a constructive attitude to problem-solving and the ability to switch effectively between priorities • Excellent communication skills, including the ability to distil technical concepts for a range of stakeholders and motivate a team • A strong engineering background spanning a range of technologies, including Go, OpenSearch, and MongoDB , with Perl experience considered an advantage • A demonstrable track record of identifying opportunities to create significant value within existing products and taking ideas from concept through to production • Experience partnering closely with Product Managers and Product Owners to shape product strategy, define priorities, and translate customer and business needs into effective technical solutions • Experience working with AWS technologies and a range of machine learning tools and frameworks • An interest in reverse-engineering codebases, where necessary, to understand t