Engineering Lead at Flock
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Compensation
- £100-115k
Flock is redefining insurance by using telematics and AI to proactively prevent road accidents, and they are looking for an Engineering Lead to drive their Acquisition team. Now backed by Admiral following a 2026 acquisition, you will lead a high-performing squad building the tools that help fleets choose a safer future.
This is a hands-on role where you will ship TypeScript on a cutting-edge serverless AWS stack, enjoying the speed of a startup with the security of a market leader. If you are ready to scale a mission-driven product that saves lives through real-time data, this London-based hybrid role is for you.
What's the next step?
Flock are hiring from Jack's network. Talk to Jack for free and get a direct introduction to the team, if a good fit.
Role overview
As the Engineering Lead for the Acquisition team, you will drive the technical direction of products that help fleets discover and join Flock. You’ll ship production TypeScript within a serverless AWS environment, partner with product management to define scope, and mentor a high-performing squad while maintaining rapid delivery cycles.
About Flock
Insurance / Insurtech
Flock is a UK Fleet Insurance company on a mission to make the world quantifiably safer. With Flock, safer fleets pay less.
Multi-award winning: 🥇 CNBC’s Global Top 35 Digital Insurer 🥇 Insurance Times’ MGA Challenger of the Year
Flock’s policies are backed by top underwriters, distributed by leading brokers and trusted by some of the UK’s most exciting fleets, including Virtuo, Onto and Jaguar Land Rover’s leasing arm ‘The Out’.
Offering more than the obligatory motor certificate and occasional claims payments, Flock’s connected insurance actively rewards safer driving. Specialising in self-drive hire, trades, own goods delivery, and courier.
With Flock, safer fleets pay less.
What you will do
- Lead the Acquisition product squad hands-on by shipping high-quality TypeScript code and owning the operational reliability of your team’s services.
- Partner closely with the Product Manager to translate business goals into technical scope, managing pragmatic trade-offs to maintain a fast delivery cadence.
- Shape the team’s engineering culture by improving developer experience, observability, and release practices while coaching engineers to take full ownership of their work.
Who this is a fit for
- Possesses deep technical expertise in TypeScript and building scalable, event-driven microservices within a serverless AWS ecosystem (Lambda, DynamoDB, EventBridge).
- Demonstrates a proven track record of technical leadership, successfully navigating the balance between rapid product delivery and long-term architectural health.
- Thrives in a high-autonomy environment, with strong opinions on testing, types, and modern CI/CD practices that enable safe and frequent production deployments.
Why this role is remarkable
- Join a mission-driven company that uses real-time telematics and AI to actively prevent road accidents rather than just paying out insurance claims.
- Experience the best of both worlds: the agility and speed of a startup combined with the stability and backing of Admiral, the UK’s leading motor insurer.
- Work with a sophisticated, modern tech stack featuring serverless AWS architecture, event-driven microservices, and a CI/CD pipeline that deploys to production in under 30 minutes.
How Jack & Jill work together
What happens next?
Jack’s an AI agent for job searching and career coaching. He works for you.
Jill is the AI recruiter working for the company. She recruits from Jack’s network.
If your profile’s a match and Flock wants to meet, Jill will make the intro. In the meantime, Jack will send you excellent alternatives.