Hands-On Full-Stack Lead - AI Care Tech (Hybrid London)

Spectrum IT; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Two days per week in London

Product with social impact

Job summary

Spectrum IT in central London is seeking a Full Stack Engineering Lead to guide a tech-for-good platform. You’ll stay hands-on with TypeScript, React and Node, while leading technical delivery and collaborating with product and business teams to translate user needs into practical solutions.

Join a pragmatic leadership team focused on AI-enabled coding, architecture decisions and scalable APIs. Hybrid work with two days per week in London, staying close to the code and the product’s social

Qualifications

• Experience in a hands-on engineering plus leadership role with significant technical ownership.
• Knowledge of AI in engineering, AI assisted coding and automation.
• Strong hands-on development skills with JavaScript/TypeScript and Node.js.
• Experience building APIs, backend services and cloud-based applications.
• Familiarity with modern frontend frameworks such as React or Vue.
• A solid understanding of system design, databases, performance and scalability.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, ideally AWS, alongside CI/CD and production monitoring.
• A track record of improving existing systems while continuing to deliver useful features.
• An approachable leadership style, with experience mentoring engineers and working across teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical delivery from design through development, release and operation.
• Stay hands-on with coding, architecture and code reviews.
• Evolve the platform balancing features with reliability and maintainability.
• Coach engineers and foster collaborative problem-solving.
• Collaborate with product and business stakeholders to turn user needs into technical solutions.
• Improve development workflows, testing, deployment and monitoring.
• Explain trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical colleagues.

Skills

Leadership capabilit

TypeScript

React

Node.js

APIs

Cloud design

CI/CD

Mentoring

AI in engineering

Tools

AWS

CI/CD

React

Node.js

Job description

Spectrum IT in central London is seeking a Full Stack Engineering Lead to guide a tech-for-good platform. You’ll stay hands-on with TypeScript, React and Node, while leading technical delivery and collaborating with product and business teams to translate user needs into practical solutions.

Join a pragmatic leadership team focused on AI-enabled coding, architecture decisions and scalable APIs. Hybrid work with two days per week in London, staying close to the code and the product’s social