Technical Lead

Salary: £75,000 - 85,000 per year

Requirements:

• Proven experience as a senior or lead software engineer in a modern SaaS, MarTech, or data-driven environment.
• Strong proficiency in Java (Spring Framework) is essential.
• Frontend experience with React and TypeScript, or similar modern frameworks, is highly desirable.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and build high-performing, collaborative teams.
• Experience leading in an agile, cloud-native environment, including Docker, Kubernetes, GCP, or AWS.
• Solid understanding of software design principles, testing practises, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Comfortable influencing without authority and aligning technical decisions with business goals.
• Strong communication skills and experience in cross-functional collaboration, particularly with Product and Data teams.

Responsibilities:

• Lead by example by delivering high-quality, maintainable code that supports our platform and customers at scale.
• Set the technical direction for our squad, empowering the team to make sound engineering decisions and continuously improve.
• Coach and mentor engineers through regular one-to-ones, technical reviews, and development plans.
• Collaborate closely with Product to turn ideas into technically achievable and scalable solutions.
• Partner with the Data team to ensure new features generate meaningful insights and measurable outcomes.
• Take ownership of performance, scalability, reliability, and security throughout the design and development process.
• Monitor delivery performance and look for opportunities to reduce cycle times and improve deployment frequency while maintaining code quality.
• Contribute to platform modernisation by participating in architecture discussions and helping define best practises.
• Introduce curiosity and innovation by recommending new tools, frameworks, and methodologies to enhance team efficiency and effectiveness.
• Support recruitment efforts by reviewing technical assessments, interviewing candidates, and helping foster a strong, diverse engineering team.

Technologies:

• AWS
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• Docker
• Frontend
• GCP
• Support
• Java
• Kubernetes
• React
• Security
• Spring
• TypeScript
• DevOps

More:

We are offering a permanent Technical Lead role based remotely in the UK, with a salary of £75,000 - £85,000 per annum DOE. You will join our innovative product engineering team and report to our Director of Engineering, helping us build scalable, high-quality products that improve customer and merchant experiences in the technology space. We are a growing global scale-up with a diverse and inclusive culture, and we value collaboration, engineering excellence, and innovation. Our benefits include flexible remote working, health and wellbeing programmes, an electric car scheme, childcare support, lifestyle options, enhanced family leave, learning and development opportunities, chartered memberships, short courses, career coaching, working groups focused on charities, CSR, wellbeing, mental health, social events, DE&I, graduate programmes, and a referral scheme. We are supported by a passionate senior leadership team driving innovation and growth as a force for good.

last updated 37 week of 2026