Technical Lead – Software

Overview

In this hands-on Technical Lead role, you will actively contribute to the codebase while guiding a growing engineering team. You’ll split time between development (about 60%) and leadership (about 40%), with a clear path to greater leadership as the team expands. You join at a pivotal stage, shaping technical direction as in-house development and platform transition mature. You’ll own architecture and strategic decisions, set coding standards, and drive infrastructure and DevSecOps readiness in collaboration with leadership.

Pay / Benefits

• competitive and flexible salary
• influential leadership role
• ownership and team-building opportunities
• swift decision-making culture

Responsibilities

• Hands-on software development alongside leadership duties
• Lead and mentor a team that grows from 4 to 6 engineers
• Architect and drive strategic technical decisions across the platform
• Conduct code reviews and establish engineering standards
• Oversee platform transition from external partner to in-house
• Manage infrastructure and DevSecOps elements during transition
• Communicate technical decisions to non-technical stakeholders and align with business goals

Key requirements

• Strong commercial Java experience, 3+ years on high-volume applications
• Minimum 3 years’ experience leading or mentoring engineers
• Ownership of architecture and end-to-end technical decisions
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, containers, and DevSecOps
• Familiarity with TypeScript, Node.js, GraphQL, PostgreSQL
• Proven ability to lead through challenging delivery scenarios (failed releases, debt, migrations)
• Excellent communication skills with ability to tie technical decisions to commercial outcomes

• Strong communication with non-technical stakeholders
• leadership and mentoring mindset
• problem-solving under delivery pressure
• Java for high-volume applications
• Cloud and infrastructure know-how
• Containers (Docker) and Terraform

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