Tech Lead - Go & React

CreateFuture; United Kingdom; Presencial; GBP 90.000 - 140.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

CreateFuture is seeking a Tech Lead within Engineering to steer complex software projects across client engagements. You will combine hands-on coding with architectural leadership, while guiding delivery and acting as an engagement lead with clients and teams.

You will manage a team of engineers, set standards, and collaborate with stakeholders to align technical decisions with business goals. This role emphasizes growth, adaptability, and practical architecture.

Formación

• Proven, hands-on technical leader delivering complex software.
• Demonstrate thought-leadership; support clients and colleagues to understand what is possible with modern technology.
• Line-manage a team of engineers while maintaining personal delivery contributions.
• Commercial experience in Java, .NET, Python, or TypeScript (backend or frontend).
• Commercial experience with at least one major cloud (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud) and modern infra practices (containers, CI/CD, IaC).
• Strong delivery fundamentals: estimation, planning, risk/issue/dependency management; escalate early with options.

Responsabilidades

• Technical leadership: lead architecture, solution design, and documentation; set engineering standards.
• Delivery leadership: own technical outcomes, scope, estimate, plan, track to goals.
• People leadership: guide direct reports, set goals, and hold them accountable; remove impediments.

Conocimientos

Technical leadership

Hands-on coding

Architecture design

Team management

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Stakeholder communication

Estimations & planning

Herramientas

Java

.NET

Python

TypeScript

Descripción del empleo

Role Title: Tech Lead
Department: Engineering

Role Summary
As a Tech Lead at CreateFuture, you will use your technical and leadership skills to lead
and support diverse client projects. Depending on the engagement, this includes
hands‑on coding, software architecture, solution design or delivery leadership and project
management, ensuring a high standard of delivery in everything we do.
We focus on high‑value, high‑impact client outcomes, and we’re not afraid to challenge
the status quo. You should be curious, pragmatic, and operate well in ambiguous
environments.
As a technology consultancy, it’s important for us to not only deliver reliable, scalable
solutions but to be looking at future trends and other high‑impact developments. Your
curiosity for technology and its application to business opportunities is highly valued
within the company. We are disrupting consultancy through the use of Artificial
Intelligence and radical thinking in our approach. We're doing something different, and
that’s realising significant benefits for our clients. We want you to share that same
ambition.
You will also manage a team of technical direct reports, who are themselves working on
client projects, for whom you will provide actionable feedback, technical guidance and
mentoring, fostering a continuous improvement, growth and consultancy mindset.
You will work with clients at every level to understand their problems, set expectations,
and maximise business value, representing CreateFuture as an engagement lead.

Role Requirements

• ● Proven, hands‑on technical leader delivering complex software.
• ● Demonstrate thought‑leadership; supporting our clients and colleagues to
  understand, through modern technology and process, what is possible for their
  business/craft.
• ● Line‑manage a team of engineers while maintaining personal delivery
  contributions.
• ● Commercial experience in at least one: Java, .NET, Python, or TypeScript (backend
  or frontend).
• ● Commercial experience with at least one major cloud (Amazon Web Services,
  Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform) and modern infrastructure practices
  (containers, continuous integration/continuous delivery, infrastructure as code).
• ● Strong delivery fundamentals: estimation, planning, and risk/issue/dependency
  management; escalates early with clear options and impacts.
• ● Communicate designs and trade‑offs clearly to technical and non‑technical
  stakeholders.
• ● Skilled in difficult conversations and actionable feedback; sets clear standards and
  holds people accountable.

Desirable

• ● Tailor ways of working (Scrum or Kanban) to context and drive continuous
  improvement.
• ● Experience in change transformation projects that involved significant Artificial
  Intelligence adoption.
• ● Breadth across multiple languages or disciplines (e.g., Rust, test automation,
  DevOps/platform engineering).
• ● Experience across multiple clouds and cloud‑native services.
• ● Contribute to recruitment and pre‑sales in a consultancy context.
• ● Represent CreateFuture in the external tech community.

Role Responsibilities

• Technical leadership:
  • ● Communicate designs, trade‑offs, and constraints in the context of client goals.
  • ● Lead architecture, solution design, and documentation; make pragmatic technology choices.
  • ● Contribute code where appropriate; set engineering standards; ensure reviews,
    testing, and maintainability.
  • ● Troubleshoot complex issues; drive root‑cause fixes and follow‑up actions.
• Delivery leadership:
  • ● Own technical outcomes: scope, estimate, plan, and track to agreed goals.
  • ● Highlight risks, issues, and dependencies; escalates early with clear options,
    impacts, and recommendations.
  • ● Ensure actionable backlogs and realistic plans; communicate timelines and team
    shape needs.
• People leadership (enable, unblock, hold to account):
  • ● Guide direct reports to set themselves clear personal goals, and hold them
    accountable for realising them.
  • ● Proactively remove impediments across technical, process, and organisational