Lead Software Engineer

Job description WE’RE HIRING: LEAD SOFTWARE ENGINEER – FULL STACK 📍 Remote – UK/Europe preferred | Occasional travel to London ⏱ Immediate Start 💼 Equity-Based Role – No Immediate Salary About Atyourtime TechnologyAtyourtime Technology is building a technology ecosystem focused on trust, verification, traceability and accountability across digital and physical transactions. At the heart of our platform is Tag & Scan, our verification and chain-of-custody technology designed to make deliveries, handovers and transactions more secure, traceable and accountable. What began with solving trust and security challenges within last-mile delivery is evolving into a broader API-first technology platform, supporting SaaS, enterprise, white-label and multi-industry applications. As we move into our next stage of product development and commercialisation, we are looking for an experienced Lead Software Engineer to join our engineering team and help take the platform through to production and scale. The RoleThis is a senior hands-on engineering role. We are not looking for someone who only wants to manage an engineering team. You should be equally comfortable discussing architecture and opening the codebase to solve problems yourself. Working closely with our CTO, Head of Engineering, Product team and other engineers, you will help shape the architecture, engineering standards and technical direction of our platform. You will be expected to design, build, code, review, troubleshoot and ship. What You’ll Be Doing• Building and enhancing mobile applications using React Native • Developing web applications using React / Angular • Designing scalable backend services using ASP.NET / C# • Building secure REST APIs and third-party integrations • Designing and optimising PostgreSQL databases • Contributing to our modular, API-first platform architecture • Working with AWS infrastructure and cloud services • Building and improving CI/CD pipelines • Implementing authentication, authorisation, RBAC and audit capabilities • Supporting platform security, performance, monitoring and reliability • Conducting code reviews and improving engineering standards • Translating product and technical requirements into production-ready solutions • Identifying and resolving scalability, performance and technical-debt issues Our Core Technology StackMobile: React Native Frontend: React / Angular Backend: ASP.NET / C# Database: PostgreSQL Native iOS: Swift Cloud: AWS – EC2, IAM, Cognito, S3, SQS/SNS DevOps: CI/CD, Git, Linux, monitoring and cloud deployment Architecture: REST APIs, modular services and event-driven components What We’re Looking ForWe are looking for an experienced Senior, Lead or Principal-level Software Engineer with strong hands-on full-stack engineering capability. You should ideally bring: • Strong commercial ASP.NET / C# experience • Strong React Native experience • React and/or Angular experience • Strong API design and integration experience • PostgreSQL/database design experience • Practical AWS experience • CI/CD and DevOps knowledge • Understanding of secure authentication and authorisation • Experience building scalable SaaS or platform applications • Strong debugging and problem-solving skills • Experience working effectively within remote or distributed teams Experience with multi-tenant SaaS, microservices, event-driven architecture, logistics, payments, tracking, identity/verification, AI-enabled applications or enterprise integrations would be an advantage. Who We WantWe are looking for a builder. Someone who takes ownership, remains genuinely hands-on with code and is comfortable solving difficult technical problems. You should be able to make pragmatic architectural decisions, understand the balance between speed and technical debt, communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders and operate with a high degree of autonomy. Most importantly, we want someone excited by the opportunity to help take an ambitious technology platform from its current stage through commercialisation and scale. Why Join Atyourtime Technology?• Meaningful equity participation at an early stage • Genuine influence over technical architecture and engineering standards • Opportunity to work across SaaS, enterprise and multi-industry products • High autonomy and technical ownership • Direct access to senior leadership and decision-makers • Remote-first working environment • Opportunity to grow into a significant engineering leadership position as the company scales ⚠️ IMPORTANT: REMUNERATIONPlease read this carefully before applying. This position is currently equity-based and does not offer an immediate salary. Our intention is for the position to transition to salaried remuneration as the business achieves the appropriate revenue or funding milestones, subject to agreed contractual terms. We appreciate that this model will not be suitable for everyone. If you require an immediate salary or are not comfortable joining under an equity-based remuneration structure, please do not apply. We are deliberately being transparent about this upfront so that neither candidates nor our recruitment team spend time progressing an application where the remuneration expectations are fundamentally different. Candidates selected for interview will be required to confirm that they understand and accept the current remuneration structure before progressing. How to Apply📩 people@atyourtime.com Subject: Lead Software Engineer – [Your Name] Please send your CV or LinkedIn profile together with: • Current location • Earliest available start date • Your strongest technologies from our stack • A brief example of a technically challenging product or platform you have personally helped build Please also include: “I have read and understood that this is currently an equity-based role with no immediate salary, and I am comfortable proceeding on that basis.” We look forward to hearing from engineers who genuinely want to build, contribute and take ownership of the journey. #LeadSoftwareEngineer #SoftwareEngineering #FullStackDeveloper #ReactNative #DotNet #CSharp #AWS #SaaS #PlatformEngineering #StartupJobs #EquityRole