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Flock is an AI-first insurtech company using telematics, AI, and real-time data to help fleet customers prevent crashes and improve driver safety. Recently acquired by Admiral (May 2026), Flock combines the backing of the UK's leading motor insurer with startup energy and speed.
You'll lead the Acquisition team as an Engineering Lead, owning delivery, technical quality, and developer experience. This is a hands-on technical leadership role where you'll ship production TypeScript code while providing technical coaching and mentorship to engineers around you—not traditional line management. You'll work closely with the PM to translate business goals into technical scope and delivery plans, and shape how the team leverages AI tools and coding agents to ship faster without compromising quality.
Key responsibilities include:
- Own delivery and technical direction for the Acquisition team, co-leading with the PM to ship features that directly drive growth and impact how fleets discover Flock.
- Write high-quality, well-tested TypeScript and own end-to-end delivery to production.
- Lead by example through code, design discussions, and pairing; mentor engineers to raise standards and share ownership of technical direction.
- Drive improvements to developer experience, CI/CD, observability, and release practices that make the whole team faster and more confident.
- Make pragmatic trade-offs balancing reliability, performance, and cost across AWS services.
- Decide how the team uses AI tools—from coding assistants to agent workflows in review and release—keeping engineering judgment where it matters.
- Integrate with and contribute to RESTful APIs via API Gateway.
- Use AWS experience (Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, EventBridge, DynamoDB, S3, CloudWatch) to support and extend the team's services and pipelines.
- Work with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or CDK for provisioning and managing cloud resources.
- Collaborate with the PM and stakeholders to challenge thinking, help land on the right solutions, and give engineers space and ownership to lead projects.
- Champion practical testing, type-safe APIs, and pragmatic patterns that shape long-term technical direction.
The role is hybrid, typically three days per week in the Central London office (near Moorgate and Liverpool Street), with flexibility for longer commutes. Visits to client sites, conferences, and broker offices count toward office days.
REQUIREMENTS:
Essential:
- Proven ability to co-lead a team alongside a PM, taking joint ownership of delivery, quality, and outcomes.
- Strong hands-on engineering ability; comfortable shipping high-quality, well-tested TypeScript in production and holding the team to the same standard.
- Significant experience with AWS and modern serverless (Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, EventBridge, DynamoDB, S3, CloudWatch) or other cloud platforms.
- Pragmatic approach to technical decisions, balancing reliability, observability, performance, and cost; able to bring engineers along on the reasoning.
- Track record of raising engineering standards as a force-multiplier through code reviews, pairing, design discussions, and shaping long-term technical direction.
- Strong communication skills; able to represent the team upwards and translate business goals into clear technical scope and delivery plans.
- Experience improving developer experience, CI/CD, release practices, and delivery cadence across a team.
- Confident using AI development tools every day, with experience helping a team adopt them without letting quality slip.
Preferable:
- Experience aligning technical direction beyond your immediate team, working with senior stakeholders and other leads to shape how engineering works at a broader level.
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or CDK, with a track record of improving operational resilience through observability, runbooks, and automated recovery.
- Practical experience designing event-driven, distributed systems and navigating trade-offs with eventual consistency at scale.
- Background in a fast-moving, product-led environment where commercial impact drives decisions and adapting quickly is part of the job.
- Track record of creating conditions for engineers to step up—not just mentoring but actively giving ownership and space to grow.
