Tech Lead - AI-Driven Platform & SRE Ownership

Kaluza; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 76,000 - 96,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

26 days holiday

Parental leave pay

Private medical insurance

Life assurance

Pension scheme

Mortgage advice

Eye tests

Discretionary bonus

Flex Fund 5%

Perks at Work

Learning budget

Home office budget

Climate app Furthr

Job summary

Kaluza is hiring a Technical Lead - Global to join our Engineering team in a hybrid UK setup (Bristol or Edinburgh). You’ll steer architectural decisions, own service health, and collaborate with product and platform engineers at scale.

You’ll work across AI-enabled tooling, TypeScript, AWS, Terraform, Kafka and Datadog, guiding juniors and seniors alike to deliver robust, scalable solutions. As part of a global team, you’ll mentor engineers, shape platform standards, and ensure reliable

Qualifications

• Hands-on API development experience with modern back-end stacks.
• Strong experience with TypeScript back-end and AWS.
• Experience shaping architecture and system design to scale.

Responsibilities

• Set the technical direction for your team and own architecture decisions.
• Work across the stack and APIs between services.
• Build with AI coding agents and review agent-produced code and tests.
• Own the health of services including SLOs/SLAs and on-call rotation.
• Coach engineers and provide technical guidance across levels.
• Collaborate with other Tech Leads and Principal Engineers on wider architecture.

Skills

API development

Typescript back-end

AWS

AI tooling

Terraform

Kafka

Datadog

Leadership

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

Job description

Kaluza is hiring a Technical Lead - Global to join our Engineering team in a hybrid UK setup (Bristol or Edinburgh). You’ll steer architectural decisions, own service health, and collaborate with product and platform engineers at scale.

You’ll work across AI-enabled tooling, TypeScript, AWS, Terraform, Kafka and Datadog, guiding juniors and seniors alike to deliver robust, scalable solutions. As part of a global team, you’ll mentor engineers, shape platform standards, and ensure reliable