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Eppione

Lead Engineer

Hybrid

London, United kingdom

Senior

Full Time

07-09-2025

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Skills

Leadership Java MySQL GitLab CI/CD DevOps Docker Monitoring Scrum Architecture angular AWS Nginx

Job Specifications

Location

A hybrid role from Dublin or London with occasional international travel

About Eppione

Eppione is on a mission to make employee benefits simple and accessible for businesses globally. We provide an all-in-one platform for employee benefits, empowering companies to offer the best possible experience for their employees.

We are preparing for a critical 12 months of growth to meet the needs of our enterprise clients and brokers and are looking for an ambitious and skilled Lead Engineer to join us on this journey. You'll have the opportunity to shape the future of our platform and lead the engineering strategy as we grow. Our engineering resources are currently located remoted and are managed by a third-party entity. We expect to continue with this model in the short term, although there may be an opportunity to also build an additional internal team to support client growth.

Your Role

As Lead Engineer, you will own the product architecture, be instrumental in driving technical improvements to our platform. You will work closely with our product and leadership teams to enhance our platform's capabilities, focusing on employee benefits, payroll, and improving overall system efficiency.

You will lead the initiative to leverage AI and agentic development practices. We currently use this approach for rapid prototyping and want to explore exploiting this further, and potentially for production code.

You will be reporting directly to the COO, Neil Fallon.

Key Responsibilities:

Provide technical leadership, ensuring high-quality software delivery using best practices while also communicating effectively with managers, team members, clients, and partners.
Play a critical role in the end-to-end the engineering process and optimising efficiency, working with the Product Team / Scrum Mgr
Provide technical guidance and expertise to team members, ensuring high-quality deliverables. Oversee activities, including software design, coding, testing, and deployment.
Drive quality standards within the team and ensure team members understand and follow those standards
Recruiting new talent that join the existing outsource team, as well as potentially recruiting and mentoring new staff if we choose to establish our own internal team
Create and enhance features related to employee benefits and payroll
Drive improvements to the platform, including automation and AI-driven workflows, to increase efficiency and usability
Influence technology choices, including enhancements to our current stack and exploring new solutions for efficiency gains.

Ideal Background

Passionate about building and scaling a platform, with a desire to get involved in the details to get us there
Experience and appetite to work in a start-up or scale-up business that has scaled quickly
Background in employee benefits, payroll systems, or similar is a bonus
Hands-on experience with AI-driven automation and workflow optimisation
Will have a degree in computer science, engineering, technolog,y or equivalent

Our Current Tech Stack

Frontend Stack: Angular, Nginx, Docker.
Backend Stack: Java, Nginx, Docker.
Database: AWS RDS (MySQL), AWS S3.
DevOps & CI/CD: GITLAB for CI/CD pipeline, AWS CloudWatch for monitoring, AWS S3 and EC2 snapshot backups.

What We're Looking For:

A technical leader who enjoys talking to customers, architecture, pushing the boundaries, process, exploring what AI can do for us, and for our customers
Someone passionate about solving complex problems and ready to tackle the challenges that come with rapid growth.
A good communicator
An engineer with strong technical experience who is comfortable making architectural decisions and leading engineering improvements.
Understanding of KPIs and performance drivers

If this sounds like you, and you're ready to take on an exciting challenge in a growing company, we'd love to hear from you!

Why Eppione?

Join a growing company at a critical point in our journey
Have the opportunity to shape our tech stack and improve engineering efficiency
Work alongside an ambitious and passionate team focused on transforming employee benefits and HR

About the Company

Eppione offers a whole new way to manage and retain a happier, healthier workforce. A platform that unites all employee benefits and HR employee management. All around the globe, in one single place. It lets your people choose the best benefits for them. Anywhere, any time, on any device. They can change their mind and alter their benefits at the tap of a screen. All within limits, reminders and visibility established by you. Giving you a clear picture of all your workforce analytics and reporting, it keeps you on top of ch... Know more