Tech Lead: Hands-on Architect & Mentor (Hybrid London)

Xpertise Recruitment; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Xpertise Recruitment is seeking a hands-on Tech Lead in Central London to lead a product engineering squad, combining technical leadership with active software development. You will set technical direction, shape architecture, mentor engineers, and ensure delivery of scalable, reliable solutions.

You will balance strategic thinking with hands-on development, coach developers, champion automated testing, CI/CD, and IaC practices, and partner with Product and Design to deliver high-quality

Qualifications

• Proven experience as Tech Lead or Lead Software Engineer.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and technical design decisions across the platform.
• Define and maintain engineering standards and best practices.
• Mentor engineers and promote engineering best practices.
• Balance short-term delivery with long-term scalability.

Skills

Tech Lead

Lead Software Engineer

Mentoring

Architectural design

Tools

React

Next.js

Node.js

MongoDB

AWS

Terraform

Job description

Xpertise Recruitment is seeking a hands-on Tech Lead in Central London to lead a product engineering squad, combining technical leadership with active software development. You will set technical direction, shape architecture, mentor engineers, and ensure delivery of scalable, reliable solutions.

You will balance strategic thinking with hands-on development, coach developers, champion automated testing, CI/CD, and IaC practices, and partner with Product and Design to deliver high-quality