Amelia Bailey

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Senior Engineering Manager at Lighthouse Foods · Search and ranking

Lighthouse Foods
Birmingham, UK · GMT (UTC+0)
12+ years experience
King's College London
English
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Overview

I lead search and ranking at Lighthouse Foods in Birmingham. Mentored 8 engineers through their first promotion. Most at home with A/B testing and Lucene.

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Skills
LuceneA/B testingElasticsearchPythonScala
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Hiring a founding sre for the search team - Birmingham

Role
Founding sre
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Hybrid
Compensation
$160k-$229k + equity
Team
Search, 10 people
Start
As soon as possible
Must have
Production experience with A/B testing Production experience with Lucene Comfort with ambiguity
Process
Decision within 10 days

Comp £104k-£125k. One technical chat and a paid trial day. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Birmingham, UKa/b testingpythonelasticsearch
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Experience

  1. Senior Engineering Manager
    Feb 2025 - Present
    Lighthouse Foods · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Birmingham, UK
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 21 minutes to under 2.
    • Shipped 14 launches on the search team without a rollback.
  2. Software Engineer
    Jun 2023 - Feb 2025
    Rolls-Royce · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Birmingham, UK
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 34 minutes to under 4.
  3. Software Engineer
    Dec 2019 - Jun 2023
    Vodafone · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Birmingham, UK
    • Cut p99 latency on the search services from 435ms to 120ms.
  4. Software Engineer
    Oct 2017 - Dec 2019
    Kainos · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Birmingham, UK
    • Reduced cloud spend on search by 35% in two quarters.
    • Moved 92% of search traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  5. Software Engineer
    Oct 2014 - Oct 2017
    Morgan Stanley · 3 yr · Full-time · Birmingham, UK
    • Wrote the Python service that now handles 44 million requests a day.
    • Brought on-call pages for search down from 21 a week to 3.

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Education

  1. King's College London
    BSc, Electronics and Communication
    2010 - 2013

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