Technical Lead

The Opportunity:

If you’re a Technical Lead or Senior Developer ready to step into a role where you can shape architecture, mentor engineers and build modern cloud-native platforms used at scale across the UK, this is a brilliant opportunity!

Why This Role Stands Out:

• Salary up to £60,000 per annum (may be slightly negotiable depending on experience)
• Annual salary reviews with regular market benchmarking
• Hybrid working – 1 day per week remote from home
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Pension scheme with employer contribution and matched enhancements
• Health Cash Plan including 24/7 GP access, dental and optical cover
• Death in Service cover (4x salary)
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Paid volunteering days
• Discretionary bonus
• Comfortable, modern open-plan office
• Team and company social events
• Autonomy, trust and long-term career progression
• Structured training and development opportunities to help you grow
• Supportive, team-focused culture that values your ideas and achievements

What the Technical Lead Will Do:

As a Technical Lead, you’ll play a key role in shaping and delivering high-quality, scalable software solutions while supporting and mentoring the wider engineering team.

• Provide technical leadership across design, development and delivery
• Remain hands-on, contributing to development and solving complex problems
• Drive architectural decisions and promote best practices across the team
• Champion code quality, testing, security and performance
• Lead the development of cloud-native, microservices-based solutions
• Mentor and support developers, encouraging knowledge sharing and growth
• Collaborate with Product, Architecture and DevOps teams
• Identify opportunities to improve systems, performance and reliability
• Support CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation
• Produce clear technical documentation and architectural designs

The Technology Environment & What You Need:

The engineering team operates within a modern, cloud-first environment focused on scalability, resilience and continuous delivery. They’re looking for a strong technical leader or senior developer to take on the ‘lead’ role who enjoys both hands-on development and guiding others.

• 5+ years’ experience developing production-grade software using JavaScript and TypeScript
• Strong experience building solutions on AWS, including AWS CDK
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code and automated deployments
• Strong understanding of microservices architecture and cloud-native design
• Experience building secure, scalable and observable systems
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to break down complex challenges
• Experience mentoring developers and leading technical delivery
• Comfortable working within Agile environments
• Strong communication skills and ability to align technical solutions with business goals
• Any experience within payments or banking systems would be advantageous

Why You Should Apply:

This is an opportunity for a Technical Lead or Senior Developer to step into an influential technical leadership role within a business that is stable, growing and investing heavily in its technology. You’ll be working on products that have real-world impact at scale, while helping to shape the future of a modern engineering function adopting new tools, practices and ideas.

If you’re a Technical Lead (or a Senior Developer ready to step up) who wants to stay hands-on while influencing architecture, mentoring others and building cloud-native systems, this role offers both challenge and progression.

Apply now or message me directly for a confidential conversation. You don’t need a perfect CV to start the discussion.