Tech Lead - AWS, TypeScript & Python (Marketplace)

Hedgehog Lab; Ledston; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Hedgehog Lab is seeking a Tech Lead to drive engineering for a high-volume online marketplace undergoing a major technology transformation. The role centres on a live migration to AWS with a target service-based architecture built in TypeScript, JavaScript and Python, while maintaining PHP/Laravel familiarity.

You will be hands-on and broad, shaping cloud architecture, data, auth, frontend and APIs, and steering delivery in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineering on high-volume platforms.
• Proven track record of AWS service-based architectures.
• Hands-on with TS/JS/Python and PHP (Laravel) stacks.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical direction across AWS-based migration and modernisation.
• Hands-on engineering across cloud, architecture, data, auth, frontend and APIs.
• Set and communicate engineering standards and drive delivery in a fast-paced environment.

Skills

AWS

TypeScript

JavaScript

Python

PHP

Laravel

Terraform

CDK

Cloud architecture

APIs

Data

Front-end

Leadership

Tools

Terraform

CDK

Job description

Hedgehog Lab is seeking a Tech Lead to drive engineering for a high-volume online marketplace undergoing a major technology transformation. The role centres on a live migration to AWS with a target service-based architecture built in TypeScript, JavaScript and Python, while maintaining PHP/Laravel familiarity.

You will be hands-on and broad, shaping cloud architecture, data, auth, frontend and APIs, and steering delivery in a fast-paced environment.