Tech Lead

Unily; Guildford; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading digital workplace provider is seeking a Tech Lead to drive software development and mentor engineers. The role emphasizes collaboration and strategic technical leadership in a hybrid environment. Ideal candidates will have strong software engineering skills, experience with Microsoft .NET, Azure, and a passion for high-quality software. This position offers competitive benefits and a commitment to work-life balance.

Benefits

25 days holiday plus birthday leave

Vitality life cover

Aviva pension scheme

Life assurance

Income protection

Flexible work environment

Dog-friendly office

Paid volunteering day

Qualifications

• Excellent software development skills and understanding of engineering principles.
• Professional experience in senior development roles.
• Passion for developing high quality software.
• Track record of working with agile practices.
• Good communication skills for presentations.
• Desire to support a collaborative engineering culture.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the team’s development work.
• Ensure successful team planning and technical solutions.
• Mentor engineers on technical skills.
• Define technical direction and project priorities.
• Drive process improvements and advocate for best practices.

Skills

Software development

Collaboration

Mentorship

Agile practices

Microsoft .NET

Cloud technologies

SQL Server

Automated testing frameworks

HTML

CSS

Angular

Tools

Azure

Microsoft Entra / AD

Redis

Service bus

Job description

Unily partners with the world’s largest and most complex enterprises to power Organizational Velocity through digital Employee Experience transformation. Iconic brands, including Estée Lauder Companies, CVS Health, and British Airways, use Unily’s market‑leading Employee Experience platform to improve productivity, streamline communication, and foster a highly connected workplace.

Unily is the only triple leader recognized by all three of the major analysts. Unily is recognized as a Leader in the 2024 Gartner®Magic Quadrant™ for Intranet Packaged Solutions, the 2024 Forrester Wave™: Intranet Platforms, and the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Experience‑Centric Intelligent Digital Workspaces 2024. With these accolades, we continue to grow and expand our employee community with people who are passionate about joining us on this exciting journey.

Job Purpose

As we continue to expand our market share in the rapidly emerging Employee Experience platform category, we are looking for a Tech Lead. The Tech Lead is a key technical leadership role, responsible for guiding the team’s approaches to software development, making strategic decisions, and aligning project goals with the organisation’s technical vision. In this role, you will be a central figure in ensuring technical coherence, solving the most challenging issues, and mentoring engineers to reach their full potential.

Reporting to the team’s Engineering Manager, the Tech Lead helps to shape the technical strategies for delivering value as a team, acting as a strategic partner and a technical authority. At Unily this role does not involve line management of developers. This is a hybrid role with an expectation of 1 to 2 days per week in Eashing and occasional days at our London office. You may be expected to be available on call during holiday periods – always by prior arrangement.

Main Responsibilities

• Contribute directly to the development work undertaken by the team.
• Help ensure successful team planning, review and retrospective events, helping guide technical solutions and ensuring planned work is feasible and in line with the product’s technical strategy.
• Work with engineers in your team to provide technical guidance and navigate the technical challenges they face.
• Ensure the team delivers high-quality, working software. You will work with your engineers to build both the software and the automated tests that validate it.
• Mentor engineers on technical skills, career development, and best practices, supporting their growth into future technical leaders.
• Support the software the team builds, through training, documentation, monitoring and assisting with incidents, bugs and questions about your domain.
• Define technical direction and priorities for projects, ensuring alignment with broader architectural goals and standards.
• Facilitate architectural discussions, setting standards for code quality, security, and performance within the team.
• Tackle the team’s most complex technical challenges, creating robust, scalable solutions to advance product goals.
• Collaborate with product managers, tech leads and other stakeholders to clarify requirements, manage trade‑offs, and align solutions with user problems.
• Lead or support technical evaluations and feasibility studies, bringing insights from research and industry trends into the organisation.
• Drive process improvements, advocating for tools, practices, or methodologies that improve team efficiency and product quality.
• Identify technical debt and make strategic recommendations for refactoring and optimisation to support long-term product goals.
• Ensure the team and product maintain high standards of compliance in areas such as privacy, security and process adherence.

Requirements

• Excellent software development skills with a good understanding of software engineering principles, relevant languages and frameworks.
• Professional experience in senior development roles.
• A passion for developing high quality software.
• Skill in driving outcomes through collaboration, coaching, and mentorship rather than direct authority.
• A track record of working with agile practices and contributing to continuous improvement initiatives.
• Good communication skills, including delivering demos and presentations when needed.
• A desire to establish and support a collaborative and positive engineering culture.
• Expertise in Microsoft .NET and the full web stack, with a working knowledge of cloud technologies and architecture. Ideally including:
• .net and .net framework
• Azure cloud infrastructure and services
• SQL Server
• Automated testing frameworks and technologies
• HTML and CSS
• Angular (ideally also AngularJS)
• Microsoft Entra / AD and a working knowledge of OAuth and OpenID
• Redis
• Service bus (or similar broker)

Why Work For Unily?

We are united by a shared purpose and are committed to truly understanding each other. We know that everyone is unique and has their own story. We strive to have a diverse workforce that embraces and celebrates one another. We are united in building connections and curious to learn from each other so that we continue to grow together to build the workplace of tomorrow.

Our awesome team culture.

We are focused on achieving results as a team and having fun while we do it. You won’t find a friendlier or more dedicated bunch of people.

Our industry leading product.

We are very proud of our ever‑evolving product, naturally we use (and love) it internally and provide the tools and resources for you (and our clients) to become a Unily expert.

The flexibility that we offer.

We don’t just mean working from home occasionally. We operate on a hybrid basis, and also recognize that life happens during the 9‑5.30 and encourage a sustainable work/life balance.

Our bright and modern office spaces.

When you need to be in the office we want it to be like being at home. We have a well‑stocked kitchen and the option to bring your dog to work.

We offer a fantastic suite of benefits.

Including 25 days holiday plus an extra paid day off to enjoy your birthday, Vitality life cover (for health, sight, hearing and dental), Aviva pension (via a salary sacrifice scheme), life assurance, income protection and so many more.

Our commitment to sustainability and giving back to the community.

We know working for an organisation that takes its environmental & social impact seriously is important, and we are proud to offer 1 fully paid volunteering day per year, an employee matching charity donation scheme and options to lease an Electric Vehicle through our salary sacrifice scheme.

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