Technical Lead (TypeScript | Node.js | AWS | Serverless | Headless Ecommerce)

Technical Lead — Fully Remote

TypeScript | Node.js | AWS | Serverless | Headless Ecommerce

Want to lead technically without spending your entire week in meetings?

We are working with a fast-growing D2C subscription brand in the pet space , and we're looking for a hands-on Technical Lead to join its expanding digital team.

This is a genuine 50/50 technical leadership and coding role . You'll have ownership of architecture and technical direction, lead engineers through complex delivery, and still spend a significant part of your week writing production code.

The opportunity

The business is investing heavily in its digital and ecommerce capability, moving established brands away from legacy platforms and onto a modern, scalable infrastructure.

You'll take technical ownership of a delivery squad working across large-scale ecommerce migrations and new digital products.

The work is varied. Current projects across the wider team include personalisation, A/B testing, AI-powered search and customer-facing digital tools , alongside the continued evolution of the core ecommerce platform.

You'll be trusted to make decisions rather than simply execute someone else's architecture.

What you'll be doing

Around 50% of your role will remain hands-on , with the other half focused on architecture, technical leadership, removing blockers and helping the wider team deliver.

You'll:

• Lead the technical direction of your squad
• Design and evolve scalable architectures
• Remain hands-on with TypeScript, Node.js and AWS
• Build and integrate APIs and services
• Help engineers solve complex technical problems
• Make pragmatic architectural decisions based on business requirements
• Support major platform migrations and new product launches
• Work closely with product and business stakeholders
• Mentor developers and raise engineering standards across the team

What we're looking for

You'll probably already be a Technical Lead, Lead Engineer or Lead Full Stack Developer .

We're also open to an exceptional Senior Engineer ready to make the move into a Technical Lead position — but you'll need to already be demonstrating technical ownership and leadership in your current role.

Technically, we're looking for strong experience with:

• JavaScript / TypeScript / Node.js
• AWS , particularly serverless technologies such as Lambda, API Gateway and SQS
• Building and designing APIs
• Microservice/service-based architectures
• Modern frontend development
• Web performance and scalable applications

Experience with headless ecommerce, MACH/composable architecture or platform migrations would be particularly valuable.

And if you've worked with Commercetools , even better — although it isn't essential.

Why consider it?

This is a chance to join a digital team that's still early enough in its journey for you to have a genuine influence over how things are built.

You won't be joining as a manager who occasionally looks at code.

You'll be expected to challenge decisions, shape architecture, support your engineers and build things yourself.

If you're a strong TypeScript/Node engineer who enjoys the architectural and leadership side of engineering but doesn't want to give up coding , we'd like to hear from you.

Apply or get in touch with Kasia for a confidential conversation.