Spectrum IT Recruitment
Technical Lead Full Stack Engineer
Job Description
Salary: £80,000 - 100,000 per year
Requirements:- Strong commercial experience with TypeScript and modern JavaScript development
- Previous experience in a Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer, Lead Engineer or Senior Technical Leadership role
- Experience building and scaling SaaS or product-led platforms
- Strong understanding of software architecture, design patterns and clean code principles
- Experience working in cloud-native, CI/CD and DevSecOps environments
- Passion for engineering excellence, mentoring others and solving complex technical challenges
- Interest in AI-assisted software development and modern engineering practices
- Lead solution design, architecture and technical decision-making
- Collaborate with Product teams to shape requirements and delivery plans
- Build and deploy production software in a fast-paced environment
- Drive engineering best practices, code quality and maintainability
- Support systems in production and improve platform performance
- Act as a senior technical leader within an AI-enabled engineering environment
- AI
- AWS
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- DevSecOps
- Support
- JavaScript
- Redis
- SQL
- TypeScript
- microservices
- NodeJS
- Fullstack
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We are partnering with a high-growth UK SaaS business that is investing heavily in its engineering function and looking for an experienced Principal or Lead Engineer to help shape the future of its customer-facing platforms. This is a hands-on technical leadership role where we work closely with Product, Engineering and Business stakeholders to design, build and scale modern software solutions used by thousands of customers. We operate within a mature engineering environment, with a modern cloud-based platform and technologies including TypeScript, JavaScript, microservices, Redis, SQL Server, SingleStore, AWS and CI/CD with DevSecOps practices. We offer a competitive salary of £80k-£100k plus benefits, flexible remote-first working with limited onsite requirements, and the opportunity to have significant technical influence across products and platform direction. We are a successful and growing UK technology company with a modern engineering culture focused on quality, innovation and continuous improvement.
last updated 31 week of 2026
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Spectrum IT Recruitment
Manchester
IT
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£90,000
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£85,000
UK median
This salary is 6% above the UK median for Lead roles (£85,000/yr).
Based on 2024–2025 UK technology sector benchmarks