Technical Lead

Tech Lead

Tech: Kotlin / Java, backend agnostics welcome

Office : Remote, but meet up once a month or so in London

Salary : £90,000 to £110,000 + Bonus

Eng Size : 50

We're working with a globally recognised tech-for-good platform helping organisations build more sustainable, responsible supply chains. Backed by a huge global customer base and years of rich data, they're investing heavily in AI to shape their next-gen product.

They need a hands-on Tech Lead to own engineering for a small cross-functional pod — combining coding, technical leadership, and line management. You'll be the technical role model: someone who's been a pivotal engineer through a scale-up, leads by example, and makes full use of AI tooling to push team productivity.

What you'll do:

• Build and evolve backend services (Kotlin/Java), owning architecture and technical direction
• Line-manage your engineers — 1:1s, growth, accountability, culture
• Partner with Product/Design to ship in thin, valuable slices
• Drive AI-assisted development — daily use, coaching the team, evaluating tools, measuring impact
• Remove bottlenecks, simplify systems, improve CI/CD and delivery speed

What they need:

• 3–5 years senior-level, ideally as a key engineer in a startup/scale-up
• Strong Kotlin/Java production experience, distributed services
• Cloud-native chops: Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD
• 1+ year using AI coding assistants, can speak to benefits/limits
• Experience mentoring or line-managing engineers
• Product mindset, pragmatic, comfortable with ambiguity, strong Agile background