[Hiring] Senior Staff Engineer - Origination & New Products @tem

Role Description

We're hiring a Senior Staff Software Engineer for Origination & New Products. This is a hands-on technical leadership role, not a people-management one. You'll lead the Origination & New Products squad through ambiguous, no-precedent build work - deep Rosso integration, pricing capability, and deal-gating risk tooling.

• Own the delivery for new product categories.
• Lead technically through execution - design, build, and ship alongside the squad, not just direct it.
• Translate ambiguous, commercially-driven problems into a shape the squad can deliver against.
• Partner with commercial and product stakeholders to keep new-product work tied to real pipeline outcomes.
• Mentor the squad's engineers and raise technical standards, without owning their performance or career progression.

Responsibilities

• Lead through execution.
• Drive the Origination & New Products squad's technical direction on deep integrations with other internal services.
• Stay hands-on: design, build, and review the hardest parts of the new-product build sequence yourself.
• Take a company target ("grow origination volume through new products") and break it into a sequenced, deliverable plan without needing to be told how.
• Build for ambiguity and risk.
• Design systems for categories that don't exist yet at tem - unlocking TWh’s of new pipeline - where the spec is being written as you go.
• Make judgement calls on commercial risk in deal-gating tooling, not just deliver what's asked.
• Prevent domain drift as new product categories are added, keeping shared language and clear boundaries.
• Partner beyond the squad.
• Work directly with the Engineering Manager and commercial stakeholders to keep new-product delivery tied to origination pipeline outcomes, not just shipped features.
• As Sell Side expands internationally, represent the technical view in conversations with new-market stakeholders and partners.
• Mentor engineers in the squad and raise engineering standards, while staying on the individual-contributor track.

Requirements

• Proven technical leadership at Staff or Senior Staff level, with evidence of leading complex, ambiguous initiatives to real business impact.
• Comfort operating without a spec: able to take a broad, undefined opportunity and shape it into something buildable.
• Sound commercial judgement - able to reason about deal risk and revenue impact, not just delivery.
• Deep enough platform fluency to integrate against a complex, business-critical system.
• Track record leading a squad or team technically through direction and mentorship, without necessarily holding formal people-management responsibility.
• Strong written and verbal communication - comfortable being the technical voice in front of commercial stakeholders and, over time, external partners.
• Comfortable in our core stack: Python, AWS serverless (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, EventBridge), and event-driven architectures.

Benefits

• Competitive salary - our current band for this role is £117,850 or equivalent in local currency.
• Stock Options - everyone on the team has ownership in our mission.
• 25 days holiday + public holidays - Swap public holidays for ones that matter most to you. Plus, get an extra day off for your birthday 🎉.
• Remote & flexible working - We’re fully remote with clear core hours, and no internal meetings on Friday afternoons.
• Home working & wellbeing budgets: Up to £1,200 / €1,200 annually to upgrade your remote setup (co-working passes, equipment, etc.).
• Up to £150 / €150 monthly on anything that supports your wellbeing - from therapy to gym memberships to meditation apps.

Interview Process

• First call with our Talent Team (30 Mins) - This is to understand your experience, motivations, and discuss the role in more detail.
• Behaviour Interview with our Engineering Managers (60 Mins) - This is your chance to really understand the role, the expectations, and ensure alignment on ways of working.
• Technical Interview with the Team (75 Mins) - You’ll meet with potential peers in this session and will discuss technical topics and experiences.
• Culture-Add Interview with Stakeholders (45 Mins) - The final session will be with two cross-functional stakeholders, exploring how your values align with ours.