Greenfield Tech Lead – Rails & React Platform Builder

Ocho

Belfast City District

Hybrid

GBP 70,000 - 90,000

Full time

46 hours ago

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Job summary

Ocho in Belfast is seeking an Engineering Team Lead for Ruby on Rails and React to drive the rebuild of the Inventory Management platform. You will lead a small team of early-career engineers and apprentices, set technical direction, and stay close to the code to unblock and teach.

As the team grows your focus shifts to people development, code reviews, and embedding strong engineering culture. This hybrid role requires 2–3 days on site in Belfast and offers a ground-floor opportunity to shape

Qualifications

6+ years hands-on as a software engineer, with Ruby on Rails depth to lead a re-platform.
2+ years line managing engineers, including 1:1s and performance reviews.
Experience pairing with and growing early-career engineers or apprentices.
Strong interest in developing people, not just writing code.
Co-owning a roadmap with a product manager and pushing back on commitments.
Hybrid role based in Belfast with 2–3 days on site.

Responsibilities

Own the technical direction of the Rails and React platform and lead migration from legacy stack.
Review, unblock and teach across Rails, React and React Native.
Line manage engineers and apprentices: 1:1s, performance reviews and growth plans.
Partner with product manager to set priorities and milestones.
Plan customer migrations from legacy product to V2 around seasons.
Build and codify the team's engineering processes and culture.