Team Lead Engineering & Developer Experience

Sosafe Awareness; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading cybersecurity awareness company is seeking a Team Lead Engineering to shape the Developer Experience function. The ideal candidate has strong leadership skills, a technical background, and experience in modern software ecosystems. Responsibilities include building a collaborative team culture and driving engineering success. This role offers a vibrant work environment and opportunities for growth within a rapidly expanding organization focused on cybersecurity innovation.

Benefits

Wellbeing and financial support

Corporate discounts

Tech equipment

Referral bonuses

Dog-friendly HQ

Qualifications

• Led and grown engineering teams.
• Strong people leadership experience.
• Communicates clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Familiar with modern software engineering ecosystems.

Responsibilities

• Shape and lead the Developer Experience function.
• Build a strong, inclusive team culture.
• Enable engineering teams to ship faster.
• Drive adoption of a unified Design System.

Skills

People leadership

Technical direction setting

Communication with stakeholders

Modern software engineering ecosystems

Cloud-native architectures (AWS, Google Cloud)

Developer workflows and tooling

Tools

Node.js

React

CI/CD pipelines

GitHub

Job description

Team Lead Engineering - Developer Experience

Location
Lisbon, Portugal Remote, United Kingdom Remote, London, Dublin, Ireland Remote

SoSafe has the ambition to become the leading human risk management provider in Europe. Our award-winning awareness platform triggers behavioural change by providing effective and engaging training and simulations on cybersecurity and data protection. Cybercrime is costing the world >$10 trillion annually and growing by 15% p.a. - we invite you to be part of the solution!

Here's how you'll make a difference:

Shape and lead the Developer Experience (DevEx) function as a first-class internal platform, defining its mission, scope and operating model

Build a strong, inclusive team culture with sustainable delivery practices and clear ways of working

Enable engineering teams to ship faster and more reliably by improving developer workflows, tooling and standards

Drive adoption and evolution of a unified Design System across engineering and design, ensuring consistency and scalability

Translate company and engineering strategy into a clear, outcome-driven DevEx roadmap

Building strong partnerships with Product, Design, Security and other Platform teams to maximize impact across the organization

What makes you a great fit:

You have led and grown engineering teams

You bring strong people leadership experience and enjoy coaching, developing and growing engineers

You bring a technical background and can confidently set technical direction

You think in platforms and products, treating developers as your customers

You communicate clearly and confidently with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

You’re comfortable leading teams through ambiguity, turning strategy into execution and measurable outcomes

You’re familiar with - or excited to work with - the following areas:

Modern software engineering ecosystems (backend and/or frontend), e.g. Node.js, React, containerized applications

Cloud-native architectures and platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud or similar

Developer workflows and tooling, including CI/CD pipelines, version control, and GitHub-based workflows

Emerging AI-assisted development tools (e.g. Cursor, GitHub Copilot, workflow automation, developer agents)

What we offer*

Wellbeing and financial support: Access to Open Up, corporate discounts

Connection & community: Virtual events, collaborative team activities, and opportunities for local meet-ups

And the list goes on: Tech equipment, referral bonuses, dog-friendly HQ

Perks and benefits listed above are for full-time employees and may vary slightly by office location. These are just a sample — you\'ll learn more during the interview process.

About Us

At SoSafe, we’re on a mission to make the digital world safer by addressing the human factor in cybersecurity. As one of the fastest-growing security awareness scale-ups worldwide, we leverage behavioural science and data-driven learning to empower people against cyber threats. Our Human Risk Management approach helps organisations turn their employees into their strongest line of defence.

Backed by leading VCs like Highland Europe and Global Founders Capital, we’re rapidly expanding across the globe. We’re looking for team players who want to drive meaningful change in cybersecurity, take ownership of their work, and grow with us.

If you thrive in a vibrant, purpose-driven environment that values innovation, diversity, and collaboration, then this is the place for you!

The human risk platform that deploys in days, not months

Implement enterprise-grade security awareness in just 2 days with only 20 minutes of management time required.

See how our gamified, micro-learning approach gets 70% active reporting in 6 months.

See how organisations like yours reduced phishing click rates from 20% to 3.5% in just 18 months.

Experience our products first-hand

Use our online test environment to see how our platform can help you empower your team to continuously avert cyber threats and keep your organization secure.