Tech Lead

AND Digital; Leeds; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company in Leeds seeks a Lead Product Developer. The role involves guiding development teams, establishing engineering principles, and mentoring junior staff. Ideal candidates have extensive experience with JavaScript, React, cloud technologies, and agile methodologies. This position offers a unique opportunity to advance in a growing digital delivery company while contributing to closing the digital skills gap.

Benefits

25 days holiday allowance + bank holidays

Share scheme

£1000 flexifund for personal benefits

Qualifications

• Proven development experience as a Lead Engineer in a commercial team.
• Ability to consider clients' business concerns in technical decisions.
• Experience implementing architecture, DevOps, performance, or security best practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead and guide development teams in technical delivery.
• Establish engineering principles for consistency and quality.
• Mentor junior team members to enhance capabilities.

Skills

JavaScript

React

AWS cloud technologies

Agile methodologies

TDD

SOLID

Job description

Overview

AND Digital are a tech company focused on accelerating digital delivery and dedicated to closing the digital skills gap. We’ve been helping organisations build better digital products and stronger digital teams since 2014.

We believe our work should always leave a legacy for the client. We do this through close relationships with our offices (or ‘Clubs’) so that our partners are always prioritised by a regional team close to them.

This unique model has driven success for our clients and ourselves, evidenced by our remarkable organic growth since 2014. Today we number more than 1,300 people with Clubs all over the UK and Europe with plans for global expansion in the next couple of years.

Join us - and help us fulfil our mission to close the world’s digital skills gap.

What you’ll bring to the table

The Lead Product Developer plays a pivotal role in the build and delivery of remarkable products, they will advocate for software quality and technical vision for AND and our clients, work on large-scale projects and support the team to grow in their roles.

Responsibilities

• Lead and guide the development of the team, providing direction and oversight of the technical delivery for the digital products and cross cutting initiatives they are responsible for
• Help establish and follow a set of engineering principles and best practices to ensure consistency and quality in the engineering process are upheld
• Feed engineering insight and experience into the wider Strategy and Architecture team to identify opportunities to improve engineering
• Provide mentoring and coaching of more junior members of staff to enhance and improve the team’s capability
• Bring an energetic and proactive approach to tackling complex technical challenges, encouraging creative problem-solving and continuous learning within the team

Qualifications

• Proven development experience of working as a Lead Engineer in a commercial development team with an expert understanding of JavaScript, React and wider experience in different tools and frameworks across the stack
• Knowledge of AWS cloud technologies
• Experience working with agile methodologies
• The ability to take clients wider business concerns into account when making technical decisions and dealing with the challenges from stakeholders that come with this.
• Experience of implementing architecture, DevOps, performance or security and an understanding and ownership of best practice as a Lead Engineer (eg. TDD, SOLID, XP)

Benefits

• 25 days holiday allowance + bank holidays
• Share scheme
• A £1000 flexifund to use on a personalised list of benefits such Gym membership, Cycle to Work Scheme, Health, dental and optical cash plan
• PLUS many more

For a full list of benefits, please contact the recruitment team.

Equal Opportunities

At AND Digital we embrace diversity and are committed to equal opportunities. We are actively recruiting for a diverse and inclusive workforce so want to ensure we do everything we can to support your application. We want you to feel safe and empowered to let us know if you require any adjustments to be made to your application or interview process so please speak to our recruitment team.