Technical Lead - Full Stack & AI Architect

MCS Group; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 67,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Hybrid working in Belfast

Hands-on technical ownership

Job summary

MCS Group is partnering with a Belfast-based organisation to recruit a hands-on Technical Lead for a cloud-based software product. You will stay actively involved in development while guiding the team on architecture, coding standards and AI-enabled features.

In this hybrid role, you’ll mentor engineers, own key technical decisions and collaborate with product stakeholders to deliver high-quality software with robust security and scalable deployment processes.

Qualifications

• Significant commercial software development experience with leadership.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop features across frontend and backend.
• Owning complex technical problems and contributing to architecture decisions.
• Coaching engineers and improving coding, testing and security practices.
• Working with product stakeholders to agree priorities and delivery goals.
• Improving development workflows, automation and deployment processes.
• Using AI coding agents and helping the team develop effective agentic workflows.

Skills

React

TypeScript

Python

Backend development

Technical leadership

Mentoring engineers

AI tooling

Tools

AWS/Azure

Relational databases

Job description

MCS Group is partnering with a Belfast-based organisation to recruit a hands-on Technical Lead for a cloud-based software product. You will stay actively involved in development while guiding the team on architecture, coding standards and AI-enabled features.

In this hybrid role, you’ll mentor engineers, own key technical decisions and collaborate with product stakeholders to deliver high-quality software with robust security and scalable deployment processes.