Technical Lead

Understanding Recruitment; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Understanding Recruitment is seeking a Technical Lead to steer a high-calibre engineering team building modern, energy-focused iOS systems. The role balances architecture leadership with hands-on coding in Swift/SwiftUI, contributing to design and implementation while collaborating with product managers and stakeholders.

The position emphasizes 70% hands-on development and 30% people management, within a fast-growing, product-led environment in Central London.

Qualifications

• Deep native iOS engineering experience with strong Swift + SwiftUI skills.
• Experience leading and owning technical decisions and architecture.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and evolve iOS app architecture for scalability and maintainability.
• Lead a small squad with technical leadership and people management responsibilities.
• Drive hands-on development in Swift and SwiftUI, promoting best practices across the codebase.
• Collaborate with customers, stakeholders and product managers to define technical requirements.
• Work with engineering teams to improve practices, tooling and system design.
• Grow and shape your team and influence product direction.

Skills

Swift

SwiftUI

UIKit

MVVM/MVI

CI/CD

REST/GraphQL

Distributed systems

Engineering practices

Job description

Hybrid - 3 days onsite in Central London (Zone 1)

Want to manage and lead a team that builds tech accelerating the move to clean, affordable energy?

Enjoy being hands-on and thrive in fast-growing, product-led environments?

Join a high-calibre engineering team building modern, customer-facing and energy-focused systems in one of the UK's most exciting clean tech companies.

As the Technical Lead, you will manage a small pod while remaining hands-on with day-to-day coding. You'll spearhead the design, architecture and implementation of complex features for our iOS app and work closely with cross-functional stakeholders to define technical requirements and translate them into clear, actionable plans. This opportunity is 70% hands-on and 30% people management and line manager responsibilities.

What You'll Do

• Design, build and evolve our iOS app architecture, ensuring scalability and maintainability.
• Lead a small squad (technical leadership and people management)
• Drive hands-on development in Swift and SwiftUI, championing best practice across the codebase.
• Work directly with customers/stakeholders and product managers
• Collaborate across engineering to improve practices, tooling and system design.
• Grow and shape your team

Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit, Combine, iOS architecture patterns (MVVM/MVI), AI tooling, CI/CD, REST/GraphQL APIs, distributed systems, modern engineering practices and methodologies

What They're Looking For

• Deep native iOS engineering experience, with strong command of Swift and SwiftUI
• Strong systems thinker with a track record of architectural leadership.
• Experience scaling production mobile apps in fast-moving product environments.
• Experience with leading, technical ownership and people management

Want to work on complex problems with real-world environmental impact?