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This role involves hands-on technical leadership in developing search experiences, with a focus on coding and guiding a team of engineers, while collaborating across departments.
Job Description
Engineering Lead – Search | 📍Manchester or London – Hybrid (1–2 days per week) | 💰Competitive Salary + Benefits
About the Role
Search helps millions of customers navigate and explore our huge catalogue of products, making it easier to find the right way to connect with the people they care about. It’s a core capability for Moonpig, and you’ll help us build and deliver search experiences that support customer engagement and growth.
This is a hands-on technical leadership role. You’ll spend around 50–75% of your time coding and delivering initiatives, while also helping the team plan, manage dependencies and understand how Search fits into larger projects.
You don’t need years of Engineering Lead experience. We’re looking for a strong senior-level engineer with deep OpenSearch or comparable search-engine experience, who wants to take the next step into engineering leadership. You’ll help guide a team of engineers while remaining close to the code. Line management will continue to sit with the Senior Engineering Manager.
Our expectations of our Engineering Leads
Good engineering comes first - You’ll have a great technical knowledge base and the experience to know what works and what doesn’t. We expect you to apply these skills in making the right decisions and applying best practices wherever possible.
Technical mentoring and leadership - You’ll be collaborative, inclusive and spreading knowledge wherever possible. People will be looking up to you for technical guidance and part of your role will be to help them on that journey. You will also be responsible for creating the right forums to drive engineering principles and practices across all of engineering. You have the autonomy to drive decisions, but it’s your responsibility to ensure everyone is involved.
Community Mindset - Engage with the engineering community within Moonpig, sharing knowledge and contributing to the continuous improvement of our practices.
Culture and Advocacy - You will play a key role in contributing to a supportive, inclusive, and growth-oriented culture. This includes encouraging knowledge sharing, creating opportunities for collaboration and learning, and helping to represent and advocate for our values both within the organisation and in the wider community. This is important to us because we believe in growing and succeeding together.
Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
Our Tech Environment:
Our Interview Process:
- Stage 1: Recruiter Screening Call 15-30mins
- Stage 2: Take home tech test
- Stage 3: Pairing interview 60-90mins
- Stage 4: System design interview 60mins
- Stage 5: Final culture/team fit interview 30mins
- Offer! 🎉
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About the job
- Posted on
- Sep 24, 2026
- Job type
- Full-time
- Location
- ManchesterHybrid
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