Staff Software Engineer at Omaze

Who We Are At Omaze, we give our community in the UK and Germany the chance to win luxury homes and other life-changing prizes — all while raising money for the causes they love. Thanks to our Omaze Community, we’ve raised over £100 million for UK charities in just five years. That’s millions helping organisations like Age UK, the RSPCA, British Heart Foundation and Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity deliver life-saving work. And the best part? We’re only just getting started. Omaze is building a business and culture committed to growth and creating significant social impact on a global scale. Why You’ll Love Working at Omaze - Growth: Omaze is one of the fastest-growing companies in the world. - Impact: Join a team of world changers dedicated to creating a ripple effect of good. - Pioneering: Be part of something no one has done before. - Culture: We work hard, grow together, and spread joy along the way. 🔑 About The Job As a Staff Software Engineer at Omaze, you are a deeply experienced technical leader who sets the engineering direction for our social good platforms. You operate at the intersection of architecture, delivery, and people, defining how we build, not just what we build. You champion developer experience, code quality and sound engineering practices What You’ll Do - Establish and steward engineering standards, patterns, and best practices across the full stack (TypeScript, AWS, React). - Lead the architecture of complex, cross cutting systems, making software and infrastructure design decisions that balance performance, scalability, security, and maintainability. - Identify and resolve systemic technical risks before they become production problems; drive architectural improvements that reduce friction and increase velocity. - Help define Omaze's approach to AI-assisted and agentic coding by evaluating tools and frameworks, establishing the standards and guardrails for responsible adoption, and embedding AI tooling into CI/CD, code review, and testing workflows in ways that raise the quality bar rather than lower it. - Own the architectural implications of agentic systems by designing for observability, human-in-the-loop oversight, and safe autonomy boundaries. - Translate ambiguous business goals into clear, well-scoped technical solutions, breaking down large initiatives into deliverable work units that you and the rest of the team can execute with confidence. - Own end to end technical quality across multiple product areas: from design and code review through to production health and incident response. - Ensure the security, integrity, and resilience of our platforms, including regulatory, compliance, and risk-based security requirements. About You - 10+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong full-stack background and deep expertise in at least one layer of the stack. - Proven track record designing and delivering large-scale, production systems — ideally spanning client-side (TypeScript, React) and server-side (TypeScript, AWS, DynamoDB, React, AWS CDK). - Strong experience with testing strategies at all levels — unit, integration, and end to end. - Comfortable navigating environments subject to regulatory, compliance, and security requirements. - You have strong opinions, loosely held, you can articulate architectural trade-offs clearly and change your mind when presented with better evidence. - Demonstrated ability to lead technical direction across multiple teams or product areas without formal authority. - Skilled communicator with both technical and non-technical audiences including product managers, UX designers, marketing, and subject matter experts. - Experience mentoring senior engineers and building engineering culture as well as technical systems. - You are energised by sharing knowledge, learn constantly, and are unafraid to learn and iterate quickly. 🙌What’s In It For You - Generous stock options scheme - Private medical and dental insurance - 9% employer pension contributions, when you contribute at least 2% - A personal learning and development budget each year to use on training courses, conferences and professional memberships - Personal equipment budget to work from home - Enhanced family leave policies - Life assurance of 4x your salary More info 🌍 Location: Holborn, London ⭐ Office Policy: 3 days in person, 2 days at home each week 📝 Contract type: Permanent, full time Diversity statement We actively seek out diversity of thought and experience to drive innovation. We welcome all backgrounds, identities, and perspectives and work hard to ensure that every Omaze employee can bring their authentic self to work at all times.