Tech Lead

Technical Lead

London / Hybrid

£110-130k

The opportunity

This is a rare chance to lead technically without stepping away from the code. You'll set the technical direction for a small, ambitious engineering team, working alongside the Director of Engineering to turn product goals into pragmatic designs and carry important work through to production. It's a hands-on role built on influence and credibility, not headcount.

What you'll be doing

• Provide hands-on technical leadership from discovery and design through to implementation, release and production validation
• Translate product and business goals into clear technical approaches, keeping solutions proportionate to the problem
• Design, build and review software across a.NET, TypeScript and Python estate, stepping into complex or high-risk work when needed
• Set and reinforce practical engineering standards across architecture, testing, security, observability and documentation
• Mentor engineers through pairing, design reviews and constructive code review, broadening ownership across the team
• Partner closely with the Senior Platform Software Engineer on reliability, CI/CD, GitOps and infrastructure automation
• Help diagnose tricky production issues and turn them into durable fixes and useful runbooks
• Champion thoughtful, responsible use of LLMs and coding agents across planning, implementation, testing and documentation

What we're looking for

• Strong experience leading the technical delivery of production software while remaining a regular, credible contributor to the codebase
• Sound system design judgement across APIs, distributed services, data flows and cloud native applications
• Commercial experience with more than one of.NET, TypeScript/Node.js and Python, plus comfort working across unfamiliar codebases
• Practical knowledge of AWS, Kubernetes and modern delivery practices, including CI/CD, GitOps and observability
• A track record of simplifying systems and improving reliability without losing sight of customer value

Bonus points if you have

• Experience building AI-enabled product features, RAG systems or production LLM integrations
• Exposure to high-volume ingestion, queues, search, embeddings or vector databases
• Knowledge of infrastructure as code, cloud cost optimisation or platform engineering at AWS scale

What's on offer

• A genuinely hands-on leadership role with no direct reports and no meeting-led architecture-only remit
• Hybrid working: two days a week in the office at London Bridge, London
• No formal on-call rota currently in place
• A team that actively encourages the use of LLMs and coding agents to work smarter, not just harder