Technical Team lead.

Technical Team Lead / Lead Software Engineer (Platform)

Technical Team Lead

London (Hybrid: 2-3 days per week)
£90,000-£110,000 + strong benefits

Our client is a fast-scaling, well-funded technology company building a platform used by some of the UK's best-known brands. They're now looking for a hands-on Technical Team Lead to drive the next phase of their engineering evolution.

This is a rare opportunity to own a major platform migration, influence long-term technical strategy, and step into a leadership role with a clear progression path toward CTO as the business scales.

If you love building high-quality software at scale, leading talented engineers, and making meaningful architectural decisions - this role is for you.

The Opportunity

As Technical Team Lead, you'll combine around 60% hands-on coding with strong technical leadership. You'll guide a growing team of engineers, define engineering standards, and work closely with partner agencies to deliver a modern, scalable SaaS platform.

You'll also play a pivotal role in a strategic migration away from legacy Service Fabric architecture toward a Kubernetes-based backend, helping to define the future technical foundation of the entire product suite.

This is a high-impact role where your decisions will genuinely shape the company's technology and growth trajectory.

What You'll Be Doing

• Leading and mentoring a team of 3-6 engineers, with significant growth planned

• Remaining deeply hands-on, contributing ~60% of your time to coding

• Defining and owning the technical strategy for the Connect 2.0 platform migration

• Architecting scalable backend systems using Kubernetes

• Driving modern frontend development with React

• Setting engineering standards and best practices across internal teams and partner agencies

• Making key decisions across architecture, integrations, frameworks, and cloud infrastructure

• Collaborating closely with product and leadership to influence roadmap and direction

• Helping build a secure, high-performance, modern SaaS platform

What You'll Bring

• Strong engineering background across backend (Kubernetes) and frontend (React)

• Experience leading teams or mentoring engineers in a senior capacity

• Proven experience designing, building, and scaling modern SaaS platforms

• Solid cloud experience (Azure preferred)

• Ability to translate business goals into scalable technical solutions

• Confident communicator who works well across teams and with external partners

• Pragmatic, hands-on mindset with a passion for quality engineering

• Architectural experience - or clear ambition to move into a broader strategic role

Tech Stack

• Backend: Kubernetes, C#, .NET

• Frontend: React, JavaScript

• Infrastructure: Azure, Cosmos DB, modern CI/CD pipelines

• Legacy: Service Fabric (during transition only)

Why This Role Stands Out

• Ownership of one of the company's most strategic technical initiatives

• Real autonomy and influence over engineering and product direction

• A growing team with clear leadership responsibility

• Defined progression toward a CTO-level role

• Well-funded, scaling business with strong momentum

• Hybrid working: 2-3 days per week in a London office

• Competitive salary: £90,000-£110,000 + strong benefits

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