About this role
# Job Description Summary
Experienced Technical Lead to lead a cross-functional team of developers and QA engineers responsible for a customer-facing web application. The role requires strong hands-on technical leadership, product collaboration, cloud expertise and a focus on engineering quality, security and delivery.
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Job Description
Roles & Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to developers and QA engineers.
- Drive solution design, technical decisions, code quality and engineering best practices.
- Partner with Product teams to translate business requirements into low-level technical requirements, technical stories and estimates .
- Lead design/code reviews and ensure solutions are scalable, secure, reliable and maintainable.
- Own technical resolution of complex production issues and security vulnerabilities , including application, runtime and open-source dependencies.
- Drive engineering metrics covering quality, automation, security, technical debt and delivery predictability.
- Collaborate with Product, Architecture, QA, Security and Cloud/DevOps teams.
- Mentor engineers and build strong technical capabilities within the team.
Education & Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10+ years of software engineering experience with 3+ years in a technical leadership role preferred.
- Proven experience leading technically complex solutions and providing technical direction to cross-functional engineering teams.
Technical Expertise
- Strong hands-on experience with React.js, Node.js, JavaScript/TypeScript and GraphQL .
- Experience with PostgreSQL and Solr or similar search technologies.
- Strong cloud experience, particularly AWS Lambda, RDS and S3 , with exposure to Microsoft Azure .
- Good understanding of REST/API design, distributed systems and cloud-native architectures.
- Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, monitoring, performance optimisation and production troubleshooting .
- Strong understanding of web/API security, secure coding practices and vulnerability remediation.
- Experience designing and supporting scalable customer-facing web applications .