Software Engineer Technical Lead

🚀 Lead Software Engineer / Technical Lead | TypeScript, React.js & AWS

📍 UK Remote Working | Northern England preferred

💰 £75,000 - £85,000 + benefits

Are you an experienced Senior / Lead Engineer who wants greater technical ownership without moving away from hands-on engineering?

Recann is working with a growing technology business in the health, fitness and performance sector to appoint a hands-on Technical Lead / Lead Software Engineer .

You'll help design and build modern platforms used by established fitness and wellness businesses, working across a mixture of new product development, replatforming and scaling existing systems.

This isn't a role where becoming a Lead means spending your week in meetings.

You'll still write and review code, make architectural decisions and solve engineering problems. You'll also mentor other engineers and work directly with customers to turn commercial requirements into well-designed technical solutions.

What you'll work on

You'll be involved in:

• Designing and building backend services and APIs using TypeScript
• Architecting scalable applications on AWS
• Working with services including ECS, RDS and ElastiCache
• Building and integrating third-party APIs and payment services
• Infrastructure as Code and automated deployments
• CI/CD, testing, observability and engineering quality
• Reviewing code and setting technical standards
• Mentoring engineers and supporting technical decisions
• Working directly with customers and product stakeholders
• Helping improve how engineering teams use tools such as Cursor, Claude Code and other AI-assisted development tools

The environment is TypeScript-first and AWS-based , with a strong emphasis on automation, pragmatic engineering and continuous delivery.

What we're looking for

We're interested in speaking with Technical Leads, Lead Developers, Staff Engineers and experienced Senior Software Engineers who are ready for greater ownership.

You'll ideally bring:

• Strong commercial TypeScript / Node.js experience
• Good hands-on React.js experience
• Good hands-on AWS experience
• Experience designing APIs and scalable backend systems
• Strong understanding of SQL and application architecture
• Experience with CI/CD and modern software delivery practices
• Experience leading, mentoring or providing technical direction to other engineers
• Confidence discussing technical decisions with customers and non-technical stakeholders

Why this role?

You'll get the opportunity to remain a hands-on engineer while having genuine influence over architecture, technical standards and delivery.

You'll also work across different products and engineering challenges, giving you exposure to systems at different stages of growth rather than being restricted to one technical problem.

The business is also actively embracing AI within software engineering. This isn't simply experimentation. Engineers are encouraged to use modern AI development tooling where it improves the way software is designed, built and delivered.

Package

💰 £75,000 - £85,000

🏡 UK remote working

⏰ Flexible hours

🏖 25 days holiday + bank holidays

🏋️ Gym membership

📚 Annual training budget

💷 5% pension contribution

If you're currently a Technical Lead, Lead Developer, Staff Engineer or Senior Software Engineer and want to stay hands-on while taking greater ownership of architecture and technical delivery, I'd be keen to speak.

📩 Apply directly or contact Jonathan Fisher at Recann for a confidential discussion.

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