Technical Lead

JR United Kingdom; Southampton; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading EdTech firm is seeking a Head of Development to bridge the CTO and developers. This role focuses on team leadership, hands-on coding, and improving engineering practices. The ideal candidate will have strong skills in React, Node.js, and GraphQL, and thrive in a collaborative environment.

Benefits

Fully remote (UK only)

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Opportunity to shape tech strategy in a growing product company

Qualifications

• Strong experience with React, Node.js, and GraphQL.
• Proven ability to lead or mentor developers.
• Understanding of modern testing, CI/CD, and DevOps principles.

Responsibilities

• Line managing 3-4 engineers and mentoring junior developers.
• Hands-on development contributing 50% to the codebase.
• Raising standards for code quality and deployment reliability.

Skills

React

Node.js

GraphQL

CI/CD

DevOps

Team leadership

Job description

I'm working with a transformative EdTech redefining how schools, learning facilities, and staff track and monitor students whilst providing real time analytics and data to care-givers and parents alike. It's a really innovative technology with a strong track record of success.

The firm has a CTO and developers in place, now, whilst the core product has been built, they're really looking for someone to sit between the two as a hands-on technical leader, someone who thoroughly enjoys coding, someone who relishes in keeping their team up-to-date in the latest technologies and practices, and someone who can innovate and think outside of the box.

This isn't a CTO role but is a future Head of Development position.

Who This Suits?

This role is ideal for someone who:

• Has already been a Lead Developer or Senior Engineer with unofficial team leadership responsibilities and is ready to step up
• Enjoys both shipping features and coaching people
• Can bring clarity and stability to a team with big ambitions and growing demands
• Likes to work across the stack - and isn’t scared of legacy systems or technical debt

Given the EdTech space is part of a highly regulated environment, I'm looking for candidates from similar: HealthTech, MarTech, EdTech or FinTech as they will best know how to deliver within some of the more pernikety intracacies of regulations and guidance.

About the Tech:

• TypeScript, Node.js, React, and GraphQL
• MongoDB Atlas
• AWS-based infrastructure using ECS, Lambda, and CloudWatch
• CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, Terraform, and IaC
• Observability with tools like Sentry, Datadog, or New Relic

You won’t be starting from scratch, the platform is already live and scaling, but there is real scope to improve code quality, DevOps maturity, and feature velocity as the business continues to grow and scale.

This is a senior-level engineering position with a clear mandate: build a stronger engineering team and ship faster, more reliable code.

You’ll be responsible for:

• Team leadership: line managing 3-4 engineers, mentoring junior and mid-level devs, reviewing code, and guiding technical decisions
• Hands-on development: contributing actively to the codebase (roughly 50% hands-on)
• Engineering quality: raising the bar on code standards, testing, and deployment reliability
• Cross-functional work: partnering with the Product Owner and wider business to translate priorities into outcomes
• Visibility and communication: presenting updates at weekly company-wide meetings and feeding progress into senior leadership

There is a clear desire to improve engineering output, move past legacy practices, and support a DevOps-first, test-driven approach to feature delivery. You’ll be central to making that happen.

What You’ll Bring

Must-haves:

• Strong experience with React, Node.js, and GraphQL
• Proven ability to lead or mentor other developers - formally/informally
• Clear understanding of modern testing, CI/CD, and DevOps principles
• Confident communicating with non-technical stakeholders

Nice-to-haves:

• Exposure to QA automation, legacy platform upgrades, or infrastructure-as-code
• Comfortable working in smaller product teams with a high degree of autonomy

You’ll need to be comfortable presenting your work to the wider business, including weekly all-hands. That doesn’t mean being the loudest in the room, but you can’t hide away. You’ll need to articulate what’s happening, what’s blocked, and what’s next.

• Fully remote (UK only), with options for coworking or in-person collaboration
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• Opportunity to shape the culture and tech strategy in a growing product company

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Created on 26/06/2025 by JR United Kingdom