Cloud Native Engineering Lead Location Belfast Hybrid or Remote Options Available Type Permanent Compensation Market leading salary, pension and equity participation About the company A fast scaling Northern Ireland technology success story continues its expansion through 2026. This is a business known for solving complex problems with elegant, cloud native engineering and for trusting senior engineers to shape how technology is built and scaled. They are now hiring a Cloud Native Engineering Lead to play a key role in the next phase of growth. The opportunity This is a senior technical leadership role that blends deep hands on engineering with people leadership. You will remain close to architecture and delivery while guiding and developing a high calibre engineering team. You will influence technical strategy, shape product direction and help build globally deployed cloud native software that operates at scale. This role suits someone who enjoys ownership, autonomy and building things the right way. What you will do Lead and mentor a distributed engineering team, setting a high bar for delivery and code quality Own technical design and architectural decisions across platforms and services Build and scale backend services using Node and Python Design and optimise data models across PostgreSQL, MySQL, Snowflake, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis and Elasticsearch Drive infrastructure and DevOps improvements across AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible and modern CI CD tooling Partner closely with product and design to deliver meaningful features Champion engineering best practice including TDD, BDD, unit and integration testing Coach engineers and actively grow technical capability within the team The technology Backend Python,Node.js, Typescript, Frontend React, Redux, Svelte, HTML, CSS Data Relational databases, Snowflake, NoSQL, Elasticsearch, Redis Cloud and DevOps AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, GitHub CI CD, GitLab CI, Jenkins Monitoring Datadog, Grafana, CloudWatch What you bring Proven experience leading teams as a Senior or Lead Engineer in product led environments Strong backend engineering capability across modern languages and frameworks Hands on experience with cloud native platforms and containerised deployments Track record delivering high scale, data intensive systems Ability to balance hands on development with leadership and mentoring Collaborative mindset with a passion for building high quality software Nice to have Experience contributing to or building open source products Exposure to payments, licensing or SaaS platforms Background in security, DevOps or data engineering What is on offer Opportunity to lead cloud native engineering in a high growth technology company Hybrid working with real flexibility and autonomy Clear progression into architecture or broader technical leadership roles Collaborative engineering culture with modern tooling and continuous delivery OCHO have placed multiple Senior and Staff Engineers with this business and can share strong testimonials on request. For an informal conversation, reach out to Ryan Quinn on LinkedIn. Skills: Python AWS React. Node Java Datadog Benefits: pension options