Lead Engineer

To make this happen you will:

You'll lead the technical delivery of the Content Systems, working with the support and infrastructure of our wider Engineering organisation.

To make this happen, you will:

• Lead delivery. Own how features are designed, built, and shipped for your team, and keep the work well-sequenced and moving.
• Make the technical calls. Own the day-to-day design and technology decisions for your team's services, and escalate the truly cross-cutting ones.
• Stay hands-on. Write production code, take on the hard and risky parts yourself, and lead by example.
• Hold the quality bar. Set sensible patterns and guardrails, and keep code review, testing, and CI/CD healthy so the team ships with confidence.
• Keep it fast and reliable. Watch performance on the hot paths along with observability and a sane on-call.
• Grow the team. Mentor the engineers around you through pairing, review, and honest feedback.
• Partner with the business. Work closely with product, the wider engineering org, and our team of legal experts to turn ideas into shipped features.

What you’ll bring:

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including time leading the technical delivery of a team.
• Strong backend depth (.NET / C# preferred) and comfort across the stack, including TypeScript and React.
• A track record of shipping and running production services, not just building them.
• A solid grasp of API design, backend architecture, and distributed system principles.
• Hands-on AWS experience (S3, SQS, Lambda, ECS, IAM, SSM) and experience with Docker and CI/CD pipelines.
• Good database and data-modelling skills (PostgreSQL) and migrations.
• Experience mentoring engineers and driving technical direction for a team.
• Bonus: trunk-based delivery, LLMs and agents, event-driven architecture, observability (e.g. Datadog), and LegalTech.

You are the type of person who

• Constantly asks the who, what, where, when, and why, seeking deeper understanding and better solutions.
• Writes pragmatic and simple code that achieves the desired commercial outcome. You understand the trade-offs between quality and velocity and strike the right balance for an early-stage product.
• Anticipates future needs and builds with extensibility in mind, without over-engineering.
• Is comfortable making decisions with incomplete information and iterating based on feedback.
• Collaborates openly and positively, and lifts the team as you go.
• Is driven to make a real difference through your work, and finds genuine joy in seeing users benefit from what you create.

CORTO is an inclusive, people-first company committed to breaking down institutional barriers that keep people from reaching their potential.

If you meet some, but not all the requirements above, we encourage you to still submit your application.