Technical Lead

Burns Sheehan Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

You will work across real-time data integration, product strategy, and engineering governance, shaping our growth while mentoring a small team of engineers in a fast-moving environment.

Qualifications

• Hands-on software engineering with modern languages
• Experience building live customer facing products
• Product and customer oriented mindset
• Ability to mentor a small group of engineers
• Experience designing scalable, real-time data systems

Responsibilities

• Own design and development of systems serving new customers
• Guide technical architecture and delivery for customer-facing apps
• Lead and mentor engineers to raise engineering standards across the org

Skills

Python

TypeScript

GO

Live customer facing products

Mentoring engineers

Data-driven product thinking

Job description

Remote (UK based) or Hybrid working - Fantastic Central London Offices

Profitable FinTech scale-up

200+ positive reviews on Glassdoor with 98% of current employees recommending them as an employer

The Business

We're partnered with a profitable, VC-backed, ethical fintech scale-up who are helping thousands of small businesses across Europe with their cash flow, inventory and financing. They use a customer oriented, data-driven approach to product development. There's a pragmatic balance between engineering and product throughout the business which compliments a strong sense of employee purpose and wellbeing. They're one of the UK’s standout employers in tech.

The Role

The role is predominantly hands on, contributing to day to day problem solving, guiding both the technical architecture and the engineers responsible for the delivery or customer facing applications.

This means having ownership of the design and development of systems that intelligently look after the businesses new customers based on their unique profile and needs. This means building scalable, adaptive systems that integrate real-time data and business logic.

This is light weight people leadership, big product and technical ownership.

The Requirements

• Experienced and still hands on when it comes to software engineering - Python, TypeScript, GO or Similar.
• Experience building live customer facing products
• You're deeply product and customer oriented - you're curious about user behavior and data
• Ability to manage, mentor and grow a small group of talented engineers, and improve engineering standards across the wider organisation.
• Experience designing and building scalable, adaptive systems that integrate real-time data