Team Leader - Senior Software Engineer
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Omnea is seeking a Team Lead / Senior Software Engineer in London, full-time, onsite, to own delivery and quality across cross-functional projects at the intersection of engineering, product and customer impact. The role, suitable for L3 or L4, blends hands-on coding with people leadership: turn vague goals into a clear, prioritised roadmap, ship quickly and reliably, and keep the team motivated while maintaining long-term technical health. You’ll partner with Product, Sales and Customer teams to ensure work ties to customer value and company metrics, define metrics, own outcomes and proactively manage delivery risks. In-person work Tue Wed Thu; highlight end-to-end ownership, concrete impact, and strong mentorship in your application, and show you foster psychological safety. We welcome diverse applicants and value practical impact as much as titles.
Our Mission
At Omnea, we’re reinventing how enterprise businesses operate, starting with the most painful parts: procurement – where a single purchase can drag on for months, trigger 50+ emails, and pull in Finance, Legal, Security, and IT just to get something approved.
We’ve raised $75M from Khosla Ventures, Insight Partners, and Accel to change that. Our AI-native platform connects every person, step, and system so buying is fast, safe, and efficient – one place to request, automated approvals and renewals, real-time supplier risk, and complete spend visibility.
It's a $7B+ untapped market, and our traction reflects the scale of the opportunity: we’ve 10x’d ARR to double-digit millions in 18 months and are trusted by global enterprises like Spotify, MongoDB, Monzo, and Albertsons. We’re now the 4th fastest growing startup in Europe.
Our team previously scaled Tessian (cybersecurity tech, backed by Sequoia, Balderton, Accel, acquired post-Series C), and our team includes ex-founders operators who’ve grown unicorns, shipped world-class products, and executed at the highest levels. You’ll work alongside leaders like Ben, Abs, Sabrina, and Rebe.
About the Role
As a Team Lead at Omnea, you are accountable for what your team works on and what it delivers. You sit at the intersection of engineering execution, product strategy, and customer impact.
This role can be held by an L3 or L4 engineer and blends hands-on technical contribution with leadership. You own outcomes, not just output: turning ambiguous problem spaces into clear, prioritised plans, ensuring fast and high-quality delivery, and keeping the team motivated and focused.
You will work very closely with Product, Sales, and Customer teams to ensure the work your team delivers directly supports company-level goals and responds quickly to customer feedback.
What you'll do
Team & delivery ownership
Own the delivery and quality of all projects executed by your team
Translate ambiguous or high-level company goals into a clear, prioritised roadmap
Ensure the team ships quickly, reliably, and to a high technical standard
Proactively identify delivery risks and resolve them before they impact customers
Product & impact
Partner closely with Product to define what the team should build and why
Ensure work is clearly tied back to customer value and company-level metrics
Respond quickly to customer feedback in collaboration with Sales and Customer teams
Balance short-term delivery with long-term technical health
Metrics & accountability
Define and own the metrics that measure your team’s success
Use data to guide prioritisation, improve delivery speed, and raise quality
Hold yourself and the team accountable for outcomes
Team leadership & support
Run regular 1:1s with all engineers on the team, regardless of formal line management
Foster strong team morale, psychological safety, and high ownership
Provide technical and career guidance to engineers on the team
Work closely with an Engineering Manager (if applicable) on performance and development
Cross-team contribution
Contribute to onboarding, hiring, and performance processes
Support cross-team initiatives that raise the bar for engineering at Omnea
Act as a role model for Omnea’s engineering values and ways of working
About You
Strong experience as a software engineer, with a track record of shipping high-quality systems
Comfortable owning end-to-end delivery, not just individual tickets
Able to turn unclear problem statements into structured plans
Confident working closely with Product and non-engineering stakeholders
Clear communicator who can align a team around priorities and trade-offs
Passionate about building great products and great teams
Level expectations
L3 Team Lead
Leads a small team or well-defined problem space
Still strongly hands-on technically
Developing leadership skills with support from EMs and senior leaders
Why Omnea
Direct ownership and impact on a fast-growing product
Close collaboration across Product, Sales, and Customer teams
High trust, low bureaucracy, and real responsibility
Opportunity to grow into senior technical or leadership roles
At Omnea, we embrace diversity. To build a product that's loved by everyone, we're best served by a team with all sorts of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn't quite match the full job spec! And regardless of your race, religion, colour, gender, or anything else! If you think you could be a good fit for Omnea, please reach out.
A few things to note:
We work Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays in-person at our offices. At this early stage of our company life-cycle it's important to us that we get this together-time, and you can read more about why we believe this is a winning move here
We're commercial, ambitious and we don't pretend otherwise! We're actively seeking folks looking to make the most of a career-defining opportunity, with the hunger to be part of building something really impressive. You can see our values here
We sometimes use AI note-takers to help us transcribe interview notes, so we can be more present in your interview. If you'd like to opt out of us using automatic transcribers, please note this in the free text field in your application, otherwise we'll take your application as confirmation that you're happy for us to use notetakers (whether added to video calls or in the background).
We are proud to be recognised for both our culture and product, and we are just getting started. Join us as we grow!