Technical Lead

Rise Technical; England; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading energy solutions firm based in Oxford is looking for a Technical Lead with strong Python and AWS skills. This role involves leading a small engineering team, owning technical direction, and coaching developers. The ideal candidate will have solid SDLC experience, familiarity with multi-tiered architecture, and a background in technical leadership. This is a fantastic opportunity to shape the engineering function and offers a clear progression path, with hybrid working available 2-3 days per week.

Benefits

Bonus

Clear progression path

Flexible working hours

Qualifications

• Strong experience with the full software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Solid technical leadership or line management experience.
• Experience in the Energy sector is desirable but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Lead the engineering function of a small to medium sized software team.
• Own technical direction, standards, tooling, and delivery quality.
• Coach and develop junior and mid-level engineers.

Skills

Strong Python skills

AWS experience

Multi-tiered architecture via APIs

JavaScript (React or TypeScript)

Tools

AWS (Lambda, S3, SQS, API Gateway)

Job description

Technical Lead (Python & AWS)

Oxford (Hybrid 2-3 days per week)

£80,000 - £100,000 + Bonus + Progression + Benefits

An excellent opportunity awaits an experienced developer with strong Python and AWS skills to join a leading energy solutions firm in role offering providing ownership, clear progression path and ability to shape the growth of the business.

This company is leading PaaS solutions developer for the energy sector on a brilliant growth trajectory and led by a leadership team with extensive experience in the UK Energy and Tech sectors.

In this role you will take ownership of the engineering function across a team of thirteen. You will cover technical direction and architecture, standards, tooling, development process, coaching, and overall output quality. The teams are small, currently self-managing, and the work leans towards the back end. This role offers a clear structured progression into a 'Head of' role, playing a key role not in the technical development, but hiring and shaping the team to scale. This role is based in 2-3 days per week in the Oxford office, with flexibility around working hours.

The ideal candidate will have strong experience across the full software development lifecycle, working with Python on the back end and JavaScript on the front end, ideally with React or TypeScript. They'll be confident working with multi-tiered architecture via APIs and experienced with a serverless AWS setup, including Lambda, S3, SQS and API Gateway. Given the nature of the role, solid technical leadership or line management experience is important, and looking to progress further into technical leadership roles. Experience within the Energy or adjacent industries is desirable but not essential.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Python developer to join a leading and growing EnergyTech firm is a role offering brilliant technical leadership opportunities as well as real scope to progress further.

The Role :

• Lead the engineering function of a small to medium sized software team
• Own technical direction, standards, tooling and delivery quality
• Coach and develop junior and mid-level engineers
• Oversee back-end-led work within an agile sprint cycle
• Support future hiring as the role progresses into Head of Software / Development
• Based in Oxford office, 2-3 days per week.

The Person :

• Strong SDLC experience with strong Python back end and JavaScript front end (ideally React or TypeScript)
• Confident with multi-tiered architecture via APIs and serverless AWS (Lambda, S3, SQS, API Gateway)
• Solid technical leadership or line management background
• Able to guide standards, process and engineering best practice
• Energy sector experience desirable but not essential
• Based within commutable distance to Oxford office