Hands-On Engineering Lead – AI, Cloud & Impact

Spectrum IT Recruitment; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

London office

Social impact product

Job summary

Spectrum IT Recruitment is seeking a Full Stack Engineering Lead for a tech-for-good business in central London. You will balance technical leadership with hands-on coding in TypeScript, React, and Node, guiding delivery from design to production while staying close to the code.

You will mentor engineers, shape architecture, work with product and stakeholders, and improve testing, deployment, and monitoring.

Qualifications

• Experience leading hands-on engineering teams with technical ownership.
• Strong TypeScript/JavaScript development skills.
• Experience building APIs and cloud-based apps.
• Familiarity with React or Vue frontend.
• Ability to mentor engineers and collaborate across teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead design from initial concept through release and operations.
• Stay hands-on with coding, architecture, and reviews.
• Improve deployment, testing, and monitoring processes.
• Collaborate with product and business stakeholders to turn user needs into solutions.
• Balance new features with reliability and technical debt.

Skills

JavaScript/TypeScript

Node.js

React

API design

Cloud (AWS)

CI/CD

Mentoring engineers

Tools

AWS

CI/CD

Job description

Spectrum IT Recruitment is seeking a Full Stack Engineering Lead for a tech-for-good business in central London. You will balance technical leadership with hands-on coding in TypeScript, React, and Node, guiding delivery from design to production while staying close to the code.

You will mentor engineers, shape architecture, work with product and stakeholders, and improve testing, deployment, and monitoring.