Lead Engineer (React/Node): DeliveryTech, Paphos/Cyprus

Lead Engineer (React/Node): DeliveryTech, Cyprus

Location: Cyprus (Paphos), hybrid (2 to 3 days in office)

Employment: Full-time

Salary: €70,000 to €100,000 + bonus

About the Role

We're looking for a lead engineer to lead a host of new features for a delivery platform. You've taken projects from scoping to production, kept other engineers moving, and stayed hands-on while doing it.

Our client is a UK delivery operation moving millions of parcels, newspapers, and essentials every week for clients like Morrisons, as well as its own delivery network, delivering to more than a million homes in the UK each week. The role is based in Paphos, Cyprus.

Our client is completely rewriting their platform, taking two decades of domain expertise and rebuilding it on a modern stack: React on the frontend, TypeScript end-to-end, and the freedom to make the right architectural decisions without legacy constraints. Greenfield work, informed by real-world scale.

As Lead, you'll run projects end-to-end: scoping them with the head of product, planning the work, coordinating the engineers on it, and getting it into production. You'll stay hands-on in the code and architecture throughout. In a company of several hundred staff, you'll work directly with the CEO and CTO. No layers. No politics.

How We Work

Two to three days a week in the Paphos office for planning, architecture sessions, and time with the team. The rest is yours to focus.

What You'll Do

• Run engineering projects end to end: scoping, planning, priorities, and delivery
• Break the platform rewrite into clear, shippable pieces of work and keep them on track
• Work with the CEO and CTO to turn business requirements into a plan and working software
• Coordinate the engineers on your projects: unblock them, review code, and keep quality high
• Flag risks and trade-offs early, and keep stakeholders up to date on progress
• Stay hands-on across the stack (React, TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL)
• Make architectural decisions with the CTO that will last
• Build tools that drivers, dispatchers, and operations teams rely on every day

Who You Are

• 5+ years of full-stack development experience, including projects you've led from start to finish
• Strong React experience and deep TypeScript/Node.js skills: comfortable designing APIs, data models, and system architecture
• Proven at running projects: scoping, estimating, managing trade-offs, and delivering predictably
• Comfortable guiding other engineers' work day to day
• Product-minded: you think about users first, not just code correctness
• Excellent communicator: you can talk to leadership about trade-offs and to engineers about implementation
• You care about craft and hold a high bar

Tech Stack

React, TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, AWS, Docker, Prisma

Bonus experience: Python (legacy stack)

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