Staff Software Engineer – Lead Technical Direction Across Evri’s Engineering Platforms

Ready to influence technical direction, shape architecture, and elevate engineering excellence at true scale?

At Evri, our Engineering organisation is evolving fast – modernising platforms, strengthening engineering standards, and building secure, reliable systems that support millions of customers every day. As we continue our investment in cloud‑native development, automation, and engineering best practice, we’re looking for senior technical leaders who can drive technical decision‑making and raise the bar across teams.

Join us as a Staff Software Engineer and play a key role in defining technical strategy, mentoring engineers, and ensuring our systems are robust, scalable and built for the future. If you’re passionate about architecture, engineering excellence and solving complex technical challenges – this is where you can make real impact.

This is a remote role with travel into Morley when required.

What you’ll be doing

As a Staff Software Engineer, you’ll act as the senior technical leader for your team or domain – guiding technical direction, influencing architecture, and ensuring the long‑term health of our systems. You’ll partner closely with Product Managers, Agile Delivery Managers, Software Engineering Managers and Principal Engineers to drive clarity, technical quality and engineering standards.

You’ll champion modern engineering practices, mentor engineers, and lead cross‑team initiatives that improve our platform’s performance, reliability and scalability.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive technical direction for your team, ensuring alignment to wider engineering strategy.

• Lead architectural discussions, shaping system design and long‑term technical decisions.
• Balance delivery pace with sustainable engineering – managing technical debt and system health.
• Partner with Delivery and Product to plan and prioritise effectively.
• Ensure our systems are secure, resilient, scalable and built using modern engineering best practice.
• Lead cross‑team engineering initiatives that span multiple squads and domains.
• Mentor and coach engineers, supporting technical growth and developing engineering capability.
• Influence architectural roadmaps, standards and technical patterns across engineering.
• Champion continuous improvement in tooling, automation and engineering excellence.
• Represent engineering in strategic conversations, clearly communicating technical risks and trade‑offs.
• Own key systems or services and ensure they meet performance, reliability and compliance expectations.

Interested? Here’s what you’ll need to be successful:

• Deep expertise in backend or frontend engineering, with strong understanding across the full stack.
• Proven experience designing scalable, reliable and secure distributed systems.
• Strong knowledge of Java/Spring Boot and/or JavaScript/TypeScript with React/Vue.
• Hands‑on experience with cloud technologies (AWS preferred).
• Understanding of modern engineering practices – CI/CD, automation, DevOps and reliability engineering.
• Experience collaborating in Agile environments, working closely with Product and Delivery teams.
• Ability to guide technical decisions and influence engineering strategy.
• Strong communication, collaboration and leadership skills.
• Experience mentoring engineers and supporting their technical development.
• Comfortable navigating trade‑offs between delivery speed and technical sustainability.
• BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

At Evri, we know we only grow if our people do too. That’s why we’re committed to building an inclusive, diverse workplace where everyone can bring – and be – their whole, authentic selves. We’re focused on removing barriers, creating opportunity and ensuring every colleague feels valued for who they are and what they bring.

We are Evri. Where everyone is welcome.

We’re excited for the future. Let’s deliver it together.

Every parcel, every person, every place – every delivery made for you.

Evri is leading the way in creating responsible delivery experiences for everyone, everywhere. And we’re doing that by offering the most convenient way to send, receive and return parcels without costing the earth.

Whether it’s a customer sending a present to a friend, a marketplace trader shipping in bulk or a major retailer such as John Lewis, asos or Next, we’ve got it covered. With our team of 30,000 couriers, thousands of local ParcelShops and a growing network of hubs and depots across the country, we safely get parcels from A to everywhere.

And it’s not just customers and retailers who trust us. We’ve won loads of industry awards over the past few years, including gongs for IT, innovation and our green fleet.

But we wouldn’t be the biggest dedicated parcel delivery company in the UK without amazing people. We’re a friendly, ambitious and diverse bunch, united by a passion for delivering the best customer experience. We have great opportunities throughout the business, so take a look to see where you might fit in. We can’t wait to hear from you.