Tech Lead - SaaS Platform | Hybrid Work & Growth

Feefo Holdings Limited; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellbeing programs

Electric car scheme

Childcare support

Lifestyle options

Job summary

Feefo Holdings Limited is seeking a Technical Lead to guide a cross‑functional squad in building scalable, high‑quality SaaS products powering Feefo’s customer and merchant experiences.

This role blends hands‑on coding with architecture decisions, driving performance, security and reliability while partnering with Product and Data teams to deliver measurable outcomes. The position offers a flexible hybrid pattern and opportunities to mentor, recruit, and shape engineering culture.

Qualifications

• Experience as a senior or lead software engineer in a modern SaaS, MarTech, or data‑driven environment.
• Strong proficiency in Java (Spring Framework).
• Frontend experience with React and TypeScript (or similar modern frameworks).
• Proven track record mentoring engineers and fostering high‑performing, collaborative teams.
• Experience leading in an agile, cloud‑native environment (Docker, Kubernetes, GCP/AWS).
• Solid understanding of software design principles, testing practices, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Comfortable influencing without authority and aligning technical decisions to business goals.
• Strong communicator who thrives in cross‑functional collaboration, particularly with Product and Data teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead by example and deliver high‑quality, maintainable code that supports Feefo’s platform and customers at scale.
• Set the technical direction for your squad, helping the team make sound engineering decisions and continuously improve.
• Coach and mentor engineers through regular 1:1s, technical reviews, and development plans, helping them grow in confidence and capability.
• Work closely with Product to shape ideas into technically achievable and scalable solutions.
• Partner with the Data team to ensure new features generate meaningful insights and measurable outcomes.
• Take ownership of performance, scalability, reliability, and security throughout the design and development process.
• Keep a close eye on delivery performance, looking for ways to reduce cycle times, improve deployment frequency, and maintain code quality.
• Play a key part in our platform modernisation – contributing to architecture discussions, aligning with other Technical Leads, and helping define best practices.
• Bring curiosity and innovation to the table, introducing new tools, frameworks, and ways of working that help the team move faster and build better.
• Support recruitment by reviewing technical assessments, interviewing candidates, and helping grow a strong, diverse engineering team.

Skills

Senior/Lead Software Engineer

Java Spring

React TypeScript

Mentoring engineers

Cross-functional collaboration

Agile, cloud-native

CI/CD

Strong communicator

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

GCP

AWS

Job description

Feefo Holdings Limited is seeking a Technical Lead to guide a cross‑functional squad in building scalable, high‑quality SaaS products powering Feefo’s customer and merchant experiences.

This role blends hands‑on coding with architecture decisions, driving performance, security and reliability while partnering with Product and Data teams to deliver measurable outcomes. The position offers a flexible hybrid pattern and opportunities to mentor, recruit, and shape engineering culture.