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Its intelligent enterprise-ready platform combines personalised cybersecurity education, behavioural analytics and automation to measure, mitigate and manage human risk at scale. Trusted by over six million users worldwide, MetaCompliance helps global enterprises reduce risk and embed lasting behaviour change.\nThis is a defining year for us, and we’re looking for senior tech talent with the desire to play a meaningful role in shaping what comes next. With the backing of Keensight Capital, we’re entering a new era of global growth-scaling fast and building with intent. James Mackay, our CEO is bringing a clear, progressive vision to the business, rooted in deep industry insight that inspires innovation and excellence. Our strengthened leadership team brings deep expertise in technology, commercial growth, and high-impact scalability.\nWe’re building a world-class technology function grounded in modern engineering practices, continuous delivery and leveraging AI innovation, coupled with a game-changing product roadmap.\nHow we work matters just as much as what we’re building. We’re creating an environment where high-performing people can do their best work-backed by flexibility, trust, and a culture that values clarity, collaboration, and mutual respect. You’ll have the autonomy to lead, the support to grow, and the space to bring your ideas of “what good looks like” to life. If you want to do the most impactful work of your career, inspire results that really matter, alongside a team that values communication, collaboration, and progress, we’d love to hear from you!\nWhy We Are Hiring\nWe’re looking for an experienced Engineering Tech Team Lead who will act as the role model for their cross-functional Scrum team as they build and scale our SaaS platform using the Microsoft stack team.\nA Lead who embodies the high standards they champion, who will play a leading role in shaping our technical direction within our autonomous environment. Working closely with product managers in refinement sessions, leading on technical delivery & being the point of contact to the wider business for your pod, you’re a lead who positively pushes technical boundaries, brings new ideas and opinions to the table, and takes ownership in winning buy-in to deliver\ngreat user experiences and releases that delight our growing client base.\nThis role is a mix of hands on, technical decision making & people management.\nWe’re looking for someone who is motivated by solving complex design challenges, balancing simplicity and flexibility with performance and scalability, who is energised by inspiring light bulb moments within the team and guiding them through their journey to high performance. Our leads cultivate a culture of learning, openly share knowledge and expertise and are committed to creating a first-class developer experience for everyone.\nThis is a strategic hire into our business to further strengthen our technical expertise, continue the evolution of our engineering culture and approach, and further accelerate the modernisation of our technical architecture & platform\nWhat We Are Looking For:\nIf you enjoy thrashing out the best technical solutions with other like-minded technologists, get a kick out of inspiring others along the way, and want a role where you have a real voice and influence in tooling, technical decisions across the domain and our future technical direction, then this role is for you\nTechnical\nExtensive software development experience, ideally across multiple stacks including a solid grounding in modern C#/.NET environments.\nWell versed in Front End development using Frontend frameworks, ideally React.\nStrong focus on crafting high quality, well tested solutions. Setting the tone for unit testing, automated test coverage, and continuous integration.\nParticipation in code reviews, architecture decision making, and hands-on development.\nStrong understanding of non-functional considerations such as security, performance and scalability.\nExperience building and maintaining cloud-hosted pipelines and systems beneficial, especially in Azure.\nIn-depth experience of developing systems using relational databases, especially SQL Server.\nA love of problem-solving with a focus on process improvement and automation. \nA strong work ethic coupled with a pragmatic approach and sense of responsibility\nTeam Leadership\nProven experience leading or mentoring engineers toward high performance (including giving developmental feedback)\nExcellent understanding of agile principles, who champions the adoption of agile ways of working in teams.\nActs as a servant leader in your cross-functional team, helping the team deliver efficiently and sustainably.\nIdentify and remove delivery blockers and continuously improve team workflows.\nChampions lean, iterative delivery - small, fast, and valuable.\nFosters a positive, inclusive, and high-trust team culture.\nEncourages collaboration, continuous learning, and a shared sense of ownership.\nDrives high standards of code quality, test coverage, and secure development practices.\nCross Collaboration:\nWork closely with your Product Manager and whole team to estimate effort, refine work, and prioritise effectively.\nPartner with Architects and other tech leads to help shape scalable, maintainable solutions.\nCollaborate with QA, DevOps, and Security to ensure end-to-end quality.\nBeneficial/ Nice to have’s\nExperience with Azure DevOps, ARM/Bicep, or other infrastructure-as-code tools.\nFamiliarity with OWASP Top Ten, security scanning tools, and compliance-conscious development.\nExperience of Document databases.\nExposure to modern data engineering practices or microservice-based architectures.\nYour Career with MetaCompliance\nAt the heart of our mission is a passion for delivering innovative cybersecurity solutions that empower organisations and create exceptional experiences for our customers. Guided by our five core values, we’ve built a culture that’s collaborative, forward-thinking, and driven by purpose. We were proud to be recognised as a Certified™ Great Place to Work®, a reflection of the positive, inclusive, and supportive environment we’ve cultivated.\nWe offer an attractive compensation and full benefits package.\nOur UK/ROI employees receive an initial 25-day annual leave allowance (which rises to 26 after 6-months & to 27 after 2 years), plus 4 recharge holiday day &10 bank holidays (In line with NI Bank holiday entitlement). We match up to 8% pension contribution, provide private medical insurance and enhanced maternity & paternity leave. Our technology roles offer flexible hybrid & remote working options, and we celebrate our success with two full company socials per year, gathering our full global team to celebrate together in style!\nWhat truly sets us apart is our people. 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