Software Team Lead

Ohme; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and bonus

Hybrid office (3 days a week in our 伦敦

Private Health Insurance

Aegon Pension Scheme

Life Assurance Scheme with death in 4x

Income Protection Scheme

Ride to Work Scheme

Eye Test every 2 years

Job summary

Ohme is seeking an experienced Software Team Lead to join the Purchase and Fulfilment team in London. You will guide and mentor engineers, set technical direction, and shape architecture across backend Kotlin and frontend TypeScript/Next.js.

In 2026 the team will scale internationally with AI-powered experiences, migrating a Kotlin monolith to domain-driven services and moving frontend from Vue to Next.js. This role is hands-on and collaborative in a fast-growing cleantech company.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as Senior Software Engineer or Technical Lead.
• Strong frontend (TypeScript/Next.js) and backend (Kotlin) capabilities.
• Great design, architecture and scaling skills in product-driven teams.
• Excellent communication across product, design and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical guidance and coaching to engineers across levels.
• Lead design, architecture, and implementation of complex features in the P&F stack.
• Review code, enforce standards, and ensure scalable, maintainable solutions.
• Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to define requirements.
• Help recruit and grow the engineering team.

Skills

TypeScript

Next.js

Kotlin

Mentoring

Technical Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Kafka

DynamoDB

AWS

GitHub Actions

CDK

Datadog

Sentry

Job description

Ohme is on a mission to accelerate the global transition to clean, affordable energy. We do that by serving as an integrated hardware and software smart-grid platform, focused on the residential EV charging market.

The worlds of energy, transport and artificial intelligence are colliding and Ohme is at the heart of this new era. By using technology and data integrations to connect cars, chargers, people, energy providers and more, Ohme has a powerful platform that puts the consumer at the core.

Ohme has been selling its chargers to consumers since mid 2019 and has had exponential growth since. We are now operating in multiple countries and have partnerships with the likes of VW, Mercedes, Octopus Energy, and other innovative brands.

We are scaling up the business and are building out the team for rapid growth. If you’re interested joining a fast-growing cleantech venture on a data and AI-first journey to speed up the global transition to clean, affordable energy, read on!

We are looking for an experiencedSoftware Team Lead to join Ohme's Purchase and Fulfilment (P&F) team. P&F manages and maintains a number of digital products covering the complete customer journey, from initial discovery through to charger installation. The team is split into two squads working together to deliver this end-to-end experience.

In 2026, the team is scaling internationally with AI-powered customer experiences, migrating a legacy Kotlin monolith into domain-driven services and moving frontend applications from Vue to Next.js. This is a hands-on technical leadership role: you will guide and mentor engineers, set technical direction, and be deeply involved in architecture and delivery across both backend and frontend domains.

You will work from our London office 3 days a week.

Responsibilities

Technical Leadership

• Provide technical guidance, coaching, and support to engineers of varying seniority.
• Lead the design, architecture, and implementation of complex systems and features across the P&F stack.
• Review code, enforce standards, and ensure scalable, maintainable solutions.
• Act as a bridge between technical and non-technical teams, ensuring clarity and alignment.
• Advocate for technical excellence in planning and prioritisation discussions.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and propose innovative approaches where they add genuine value.

Delivery and Collaboration

• Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to define technical requirements and translate them into actionable plans.
• Drive execution of projects from conception to deployment, balancing speed with quality.
• Identify and mitigate risks in architecture and delivery timelines.
• Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement in both process and technology.
• Participate in recruitment by interviewing candidates for technical positions.
• Keep abreast of industry trends and communicate relevant developments to your team.

Who You Are

Live our values: Customer Obsessed, Collaboration, Progressive, Brave, Do Good. Be a team player with creative opinions, focused on driving solutions. Always look forward and learn from mistakes.

• Front-end and backend capable: Comfortable across the full P&F stack, with strongTypeScript/Next.js frontends experience and confidence in contributing toKotlin backend.
• Collaborative: You work well across squads, communicate trade-offs clearly, and bring people along with you on architectural decisions.
• Mentor: You foster a collaborative and inclusive environment, encouraging knowledge sharing and investing in the growth of engineers around you.
• Pragmatic: You balance innovation with delivery, making sound judgements about when to move fast and when to invest in quality.
• Curious: You take the time to understand business context, not just technical requirements, and bring that into how you build.

Required Experience

• Proven experience as a Senior Software Engineer, Technical Lead, or similar role involving leading or mentoring a team.
• Very experienced with developing across a full TypeScript/Next.js frontend stack and experience (or desire) to also work across the full stack – our backend stack is Kotlin with Spring Boot.
• Demonstrated success in system design, architecture, and scaling solutions in a product-first environment.
• Strong problem-solving skills with a balance of pragmatism and innovation.
• Experience collaborating cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and business stakeholders.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate technical complexity for non-technical audiences.

Desirable

• Familiarity with event-driven architecture and domain-driven design, including tools such as Kafka and DynamoDB.
• Experience with AWS infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, CDK).
• Energy sector or EV industry domain knowledge.
• Experience working with observability tooling such as Datadog or Sentry.

Our Benefits

You'll get to work in a fast-paced and rapidly growing scale-up with global ambitions that is cutting edge, passionate about sustainability and seeks to make the world a better place.

• Competitive salary and bonus
• Hybrid office (3 days a week in our London office)
• Private Health Insurance
• Aegon Pension Scheme
• Life Assurance Scheme with death in service benefit of 4x salary
• Income Protection Scheme for long term illness
• Ride to Work Scheme
• Payroll Giving Scheme
• Season Ticket Loan to spread cost of travel over 12 months
• Eye Test every 2 years

Ohme is an equal opportunity employer. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are at the heart of what we do and we encourage a culture where everyone can be themselves at work. We actively seek out a diverse range of talent and our policies ensure that every job application and employee is treated fairly, with equal opportunity to succeed and to feel included.